Analyzing Doris Lessing's Short Story 'Through The Tunnel'

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“All of a sudden he blurted out ‘I’d like to go and have a look at those rocks down there’” (402). Jerry waited patiently for his mother’s permission in the short story “Through the Tunnel” written by Doris Lessing. In the short story, Jerry and his mother are on vacation in Caribbean. One day Jerry decides to go explore some rugged rocks instead of going to the local beach with his mother. While exploring the rocks, he discovered a beach with some local boys diving off rocks and swimming through an underwater tunnel; Jerry calls the newly discover location, the wild beach. In the short story, the wild beach is symbolic of the theme of Jerry growing up because he becomes more independent of his mother and how he changes to

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