“Great things never come from comfort zones.” In each story the main characters challenge themselves to do things they never thought they'd do. As they are stepping out of their comfort zone, they are growing up and learning new lessons and they discover new challenges. Each story comes with a difficult challenge, that the main character needs to overcome. The main characters challenged themselves by stepping out their comfort zone to approach the adult world.
To begin with, in The Passage by Dalton Trumbo, the boy portrays the role of growing up and mutual confrontation. This story is about an unbreakable bond between a father and son. “Each summer they came to this place… they had been coming to this place ever since he was seven.. now he …show more content…
The young English boy is on vacation with his mom, he starts his journey as he goes on a different beach (area) and begins to jump off a cliff and along comes a group of guys almost looking like men. “They were big boys-men, to jerry. He dived and they watched him; and when he swam around to take his place, they made way for him. He felt he was accepted and he dived again, carefully, proud of himself”. He was proud of himself, (no matter how scary it was), he still did it to show the bigger boys. Right away he had to face a challenge (one of his fears). Throughout his time on vacation, he had a mission, he needed to go deep into the water and in a tunnel (under water). That came with many challenges, he needed to hold his breathe for a long time, later to discover that that led to his nose bleeding, (at night and throughout the day). He also needed to get to the bottom (by the tunnel) really fast so he wouldn't run out of breathe to make it through the tunnel. After a while of trying every morning, he only had one more day of vacation on the beach and he knew that it had to happen now, so he could feel accomplished and feel like he was growing up. He woke up and left really early and got prepared to jump, as he was on the rock, he picked up a rock to take with him in order to get to the bottom fast. He jumped. He had a plan of counting to 101. “A hundred, a hundred and one…
To begin with, in The Passage by Dalton Trumbo, the boy portrays the role of growing up and mutual confrontation. This story is about an unbreakable bond between a father and son. “Each summer they came to this place… they had been coming to this place ever since he was seven.. now he …show more content…
The young English boy is on vacation with his mom, he starts his journey as he goes on a different beach (area) and begins to jump off a cliff and along comes a group of guys almost looking like men. “They were big boys-men, to jerry. He dived and they watched him; and when he swam around to take his place, they made way for him. He felt he was accepted and he dived again, carefully, proud of himself”. He was proud of himself, (no matter how scary it was), he still did it to show the bigger boys. Right away he had to face a challenge (one of his fears). Throughout his time on vacation, he had a mission, he needed to go deep into the water and in a tunnel (under water). That came with many challenges, he needed to hold his breathe for a long time, later to discover that that led to his nose bleeding, (at night and throughout the day). He also needed to get to the bottom (by the tunnel) really fast so he wouldn't run out of breathe to make it through the tunnel. After a while of trying every morning, he only had one more day of vacation on the beach and he knew that it had to happen now, so he could feel accomplished and feel like he was growing up. He woke up and left really early and got prepared to jump, as he was on the rock, he picked up a rock to take with him in order to get to the bottom fast. He jumped. He had a plan of counting to 101. “A hundred, a hundred and one…