In the story, “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing a little boy name Jerry goes to the beach and is determined to be a big boy all because of this tunnel. Jerry is influenced that if he goes through a tunnel some boys showed him that he can be the independent grown up boy he wants. Jerry’s whole vacation is dealing with being independent from his mother, determination of being a big boy, and the dangerous acts he lays upon.
Throughout the story, the eleven year old boy named Jerry focuses his life on trying to be independent and trying to be like a big boy. From Jerry, wanting to be independent, his mother is letting this little boy to go out into the world because she is afraid of being too overprotective. Near the beginning it said, “She was thinking, Of course he’s old enough to be safe without me. Have I been keeping him too close? He mustn’t feel he ought to be with me. I must be careful.” For a mother being concerned about being overprotective to an eleven year old is sort of sad and scary to me. It is …show more content…
For example, trying to get through the tunnel because those older boys did it. As a child, you want to do everything an older person can do because it is just so fascinating to see them do something that you never did before. It could also mean in Jerry’s mind that going through this tunnel is the route to manhood because all of the older guys did it, so if he can get through it he can be the big kid. In the story it said, “He would do it if it killed him, he said defiantly to himself. But two days before they were to leave - a day of triumph when he increased his count by fifteen - his nose bled so badly that he turned dizzy and had to lie limply over the big rock like a bit of seaweed, watching the thick red blood flow on to the rock and trickle slowly down to the sea.” Now I never seen so much determination from a little kid before on trying to get through that
Throughout the story, the eleven year old boy named Jerry focuses his life on trying to be independent and trying to be like a big boy. From Jerry, wanting to be independent, his mother is letting this little boy to go out into the world because she is afraid of being too overprotective. Near the beginning it said, “She was thinking, Of course he’s old enough to be safe without me. Have I been keeping him too close? He mustn’t feel he ought to be with me. I must be careful.” For a mother being concerned about being overprotective to an eleven year old is sort of sad and scary to me. It is …show more content…
For example, trying to get through the tunnel because those older boys did it. As a child, you want to do everything an older person can do because it is just so fascinating to see them do something that you never did before. It could also mean in Jerry’s mind that going through this tunnel is the route to manhood because all of the older guys did it, so if he can get through it he can be the big kid. In the story it said, “He would do it if it killed him, he said defiantly to himself. But two days before they were to leave - a day of triumph when he increased his count by fifteen - his nose bled so badly that he turned dizzy and had to lie limply over the big rock like a bit of seaweed, watching the thick red blood flow on to the rock and trickle slowly down to the sea.” Now I never seen so much determination from a little kid before on trying to get through that