The story Through the tunnel is about a boy
named Jerry and is 11 years old. In
this story a
Jerry goes to the beach with his mother on vacation. Jerry is a boy who would
do almost
anything to become a friend with
someone. In this story Jerry tries to impress
these foreign
boys by trying to swim through a tunnel.
Jerry's mother lets him do what he wants but
she is aware of Jerry's need as Jerry
is the same to
his mother. Jerry is a calm and collected person he is not one who would
raise his voice
or yell. He likes to meet new friends and to Jerry this is the perfect
opportunity. He
would be most anyone's friend or buddy. Jerry is a person who likes to
push himself to
the limits and likes the challenge. With these qualities Jerry is easy to get
along with.
When Jerry sees the foreign boys swimming and
decides to ask them if he can
swim with him.
But Jerry realizes that the boys don't speak his language but tries to talk
to them in French.
Without no communication Jerry has to relay on body language and
actions. When
Jerry sees the boys swimming in the water below and the pop out on top of
the rocks he
decides to check it out and see what down there. He saw a black tunnel
which was very
dark and gloomy. As Jerry tries to swim through it, he becomes afraid
and scared and
decides to go back. As he came up for air he saw the boys snickering at
him and Jerry
decided he must do this to impress the boys and have them like him. Jerry
is not one who
asks people for gifts or money but to him this was very important. So he
asked his mother
to buy him some goggles so that he could swim.
After the boys would leave in the afternoon,
Jerry would stay down there and
work on his
breathing and concentrating on going through the tunnel. When its Jerry's
last day of
vacation he says to himself that it is the last day to do this. To prepare
himself
he sat in front
of the clock to see how long he could hold his breath. As Jerry went down
to the sea to go
through the tunnel. As he goes through it he has flashes of his life being
threatened and
himself drowing. When Jerry was going through he became light headed
and blood was
filling in his goggles. As he came up on his maximum breathing time he
went over his
time limit.
As Jerry comes out of the tunnel he realizes
that he did not have as much self
accomplishment as
he thought he would. He realized that it was a door from childhood to
manhood. So
overall Jerry noticed that he does not have to show off to others to impress
himself.
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