Analysis of Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing Essay -- Through the T

Analysis of Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing Through The Tunnel is written by a doll called Doris Lessing.Through the tunnel is a short story about a boy called Jerry and hismother who be on holiday in Spain. There are three themes to thestory, the first is the safe beach . The second is the dangerousbeach. The third is when jerry goes through the tunnel.The characters are introduced on their first day on holiday where theyare tone ending to the safe beach. It begins when they are walking to thebeach and jerry stops to look at the other beach (dangerous beach),Jerrys mother stops and looks for him and asks if he wants to go tothat beach instead. Guilt gets the better of him because his dad isdead, and he dose not want to leave his mother on her own. The nextday it was the same turning of going to the beach and doing swimmingand sunbathing all day. His mother asks him the same question as theother day, she wants to let him go and give him close to independence. Shealso wants him with her to convey sure he is ok when he is swimming. Shewas having an inner conflict at this point. Inner conflicts are goingon between some(prenominal) characters. As they both carry on walking Jerryblurts outId like to go and have a look at those rocks over there The writermakes Jerry say this because in this story Jerry wants to be moremature like an adult than immature like a kid.When she left him to go his own ways, Jerry had some more guilt goingthrough his head. When his mum left him she felt insecure aboutletting him go his own ways.once Jerry got to the other beach, he went straight to the sea for aswim. The sea was warm from the heat of the sun, but when the currentsof the deep sea came in, it w... ...e he goes under water for a long cartridge clip hisnose starts to bleed. He can hold his breath for one hundred and sixtyseconds and when he keeps on practicing he can hold it for twominutes. This is the count of time he needs to go through the tunnel.when he finds out that he is going home in a couple of days he decidesto do it the day before he goes home.The time comes for him to do the challenge he goes to the bay anddives in. when he is going to the tunnel lots of thoughts are goingthrough his head whether he is going to die or not and whether he willsee his mother again. Once he gets to the tunnel he starts to gothrough the tunnel it gets thinner and thinner, and he starts towonder if he will make it. Jerry makes it through and he is sodelighted because he thinks he is mature now, but really he is justthe same person as before the challenge.