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Summary: In Doris Lessing's "Through the Tunnel," Jerry, an 11-year-old boy, experiences significant character development through his interactions with older boys at a wild bay. Initially...
Jerry -- younger, foreign, less practiced -- simply wants to feel accepted by them, as if this would somehow prove to him that he is nearing adulthood too. At first, these boys seem to accept him.
In "Through the Tunnel," Jerry's relationship with the other boys is marked by a desire for acceptance and a need to prove himself. Unlike the local boys who are confident...
As determined as he is to fulfill his self-determined rite of passage of swimming through the tunnel, Jerry’s nervousness and shaky confidence make him seem to revert, at least partially, to his earlier child-like state of fear when he first began exploring the tunnel.
When Jerry’s mother decides to spend another day at their usual beach and he sets off on his own down to the separate rocky bay, he is seemingly happy to be alone. When he sees a group of older boys , though, Jerry is eager to impress them with his swimming abilities.
In the beginning of the story, Jerry’s existence is defined by his proximity to his mother, but as the story progresses, she essentially disappears from the narrative. The story’s opening paragraph sets up Jerry’s relationship with his caring, if overly concerned, mother.
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Jerry Mouse, or more simply referred to as Jerry, and originally known as Jinx, is one of the two anti-heroic protagonists in Tom and Jerry, alongside Tom Cat, created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Despite being referred as an anti-heroic, Jerry is more often...
