Doris Lessing

In Doris Lessing’s short story, “Through the Tunnel”, the Lessing teaches the reader about setting and achieving them. “Through the Tunnel” tells the story of a young English boy named Jerry whose mother allows him to go explore the bay. He meets a group of local boys and ends up swimming them. While swimming with the boys, Jerry discovers that the boys are swimming through an underwater tunnel. Eventually, the boys go off somewhere else and leave Jerry alone. Upset and lonely, Jerry swims around by himself and decides to find the tunnel that the boys were swimming through. When exploring the tunnel entrance, Jerry becomes determined to swim through the tunnel and make it to the other side. In “Through the Tunnel”, Doris Lessing uses…

“Through the Tunnel” In Doris Lessing’s short story, “Through the Tunnel”, the author teaches the reader about setting goals and achieving them. “Through the Tunnel” tells the story of a young English boy named Jerry who’s mother lets him go and allows him to explore the bay. While on the bay, he meets a group of boys who he ends up swimming with. While swimming with the boys, Jerry discovers that the boys are swimming through a tunnel underwater. Eventually, the boys go off somewhere else…

Taking a risk is worth the consequences. The story “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing, was written about a believable character that takes a lot of risk. Jerry is trying to find courage within himself to overcome a fear, and to take a risk to overcome independence. Jerry gains acceptance when his mom lets him wander off to another area of shoreline. Jerry gets maturity from his experience of achieving his goal by holding his breath to get Through the Tunnel. When Jerry jumped into the water…

Deciding when risks are worth taking is something many people have trouble with. Risks are worth taking when going through the journey from childhood to adulthood. Doris Lessing, the author of “Through the Tunnel”, describes Jerry’s journey as he takes a dangerous risk. In the beginning of the story, Jerry wanted more independence from his widowed mother. He wants to prove to himself that he can accomplish anything he puts his mind too. Jerry is a believable character because, he conquers a risk…

Protagonists: Harriet Lovatt- Wife of David Lovatt & mother to Luke, Helen, Jane, Paul, and Ben. Ben Lovatt- Fifth child of Harriet & David Lovatt and born with issues and different than the other children. Antagonists: David Lovatt- Husband of Harriet & father of Luke, Helen, Jane, Paul, and Ben. He dislikes Ben. Deborah Lovatt- David’s sister James Lovatt- David & Deborah Lovatt’s father. He pays for most finances for David and Harriet. Molly- David and Deborah Lovatt’s mother. Dorothy-…

Lessing construed Jerry as a courageous character that seeks adventure. Also displaying physical courage and a near death experience, Jerry gains independence and a sense of self-worth. While on vacation in France, he comes across local boys while swimming at the beach. Waiting anxiously for the boys to come back up from under the waves, astonishingly several minutes pass beforehand. They then leave while he imagines all the wonders below. “He knew he must find his way through that cave, or…

Growing up is never easy: A thematic Analysis of “Through the Tunnel” In “ Through the Tunnel”, the setting Doris Lessing develops the theme “Growing up is never easy“, through mom, Jerry, and setting. Jerry is getting older, and his mom is finally letting up a little bit, and letting him go through the tunnel. Firstly, jerry is growing as a boy but his mother is also growing. Shes transforming from a mother of a young boy to a mother of a adolescent boy. In areas where she used to know little…

The Will to Thrive Through the archetypes in the short story Through the Tunnel, Doris Lessing informs the reader that goals can become reality through hard work and determination. At first, Jerry only strives for attention. He does stupid things to try to gain people’s attention. However, his antics fall short with the native boys; instead “They looked down gravely, frowning” (Lessing). The quote is an example of the outcast archetype. The boy’s reactions completely changes Jerry’s outlook on…

the short story, “Through the Tunnel” written by Doris Lessing, Jerry, an eleven-year-old boy on vacation with his mother, decides that he wants to go to the other beach. He tries to dive with the native boys but does not succeed his first try. So, instead of giving up, he does what he can to accomplish his goal of swimming through the tunnel. In the film, Tuck Everlasting by Jay Russell, Winnie, a sixteen-year-old girl who lives with her parents, wants to be herself and not a cookie cutter…

In the story “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing, she writes a story about a boy Jerry and his quest to swim through the tunnel. The story may seem normal at first, and may even seem like a quest, but like many authors Lessing has encoded explicit messages and meanings within her story in order to express deeper meaning. Lessing does this in the piece “Through the Tunnel” using imagery to express the hidden explicit message. As Lessing wrote, “They were big boys - men, to Jerry. … He felt he…