Tunnels

The Painful Tunnel to Achieve Maturity. Archetypal Criticism can be defined as a universal approach that highlights certain patterns within literature uninfluenced by situation, community or culture. In Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing, the characters are categorized into typical roles based on their actions and roles in the story. This enhances the readers’ understanding of the characters’ goals and source of motivation. In addition, symbolic archetypes are attained through the symbols and…

The Tunnel of Oppression was hosted by the University Student Housing, and it took about an hour for my group to complete the experience. We went through the “tunnel” quickly enough to visit about ten different rooms that each portrayed a different type of oppression through either acting or video. Some of the topics included: racism, relationship abuse, sexual assault, cyberbullying, body image, metal health disorders, ethnocentrism, homelessness, and LGBT issues. At the end of the “tunnel”…

Two British examples of old, antique railway structures built prior to 1840, a tunnel and a bridge, now have protected status. This is thanks to a recent decision in the country by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. In 2014, the Guinness Book of Records named the Fritchely Tunnel one of the globe’s oldest railroad tunnels still left in existence. Built in 1793, the Fritchley Tunnel is 25 meters long and is constructed of sandstone blocks. It was built to be a section of the Butterley…

want to grow up and become adults. The short story, “Through the Tunnel,” follows Jerry on his journey into adulthood. The author, Doris Lessing, uses literary elements such as symbolism and imagery to portray the message that maturing is never easy. During Jerry’s transition, he goes through a phase where he tries to live up to other people’s expectations. He sees a group of big boys and when he realizes that they passed through a tunnel underwater, he wants to be like them too because he…

“So do you want to see it or not.” We assured that we did indeed want to go and venture into the dark tunnel. Demur rushed up to the steel door and started to turn a combination lock that had many symbols that looked should be in a Mayan civilization. I started to get really nervous about the integrity of this man since he led us to a random tunnel got us attacked by dogs and now started to speak into the walls. Chadwick seemed to not worry since he had seen this man before…

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…

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…

The short story “Through the Tunnel” Doris Lessing, the non-fiction story, “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rider” Bruce Weber, and the novel, “The Outsiders” S.E. Hinton, all portray that coming of age is when a person goes through a changing experience which allows them to grow and become their own heroes. Bruce Weber’s non-fiction story “The Loneliness of a Long Distance Rider” portrays that loneliness is the key to coming of age and healing after going through a traumatic experience.…

The Nest Tunnel was built from the 1920s to 1930s to boost business in Gauley Bridge. It was referred to as the engineering marvel of that era. However, it turned out to be the one of the most controversial industrial disasters to have ever happened in the history of the United States. Over 1000 workers died due to a condition called silicosis due to the poor safety standards at the working place. After the disaster, new laws were enacted to protect the workers against air contaminants and also…

The Tunnels “Are you afraid of pipes, Jay or should I say jason” echoes from the pipes. You wake up from a bad dream and then you decide to go downstairs while you look at your mom watching news and go to the cabinet and get a sandwich. Then you go back up to get your shovel. Then you go outside banging your shovel against the ground and you hit the pipes. You fall back and try to scream but then you fall down into the dirt and get knocked out. When you wake up, you notice that the dirt is…