Friday, 7 October 2011

Through the tunnel by Dorris Lessing

SETTING
The story was set during summer at the beach

MAIN CHARACTER
The main charater is Jerry. He is eleven year old only son of a widow. he was raised alone by his mother ofter the death of his father.

PLOT SUMMARY
An 11 year old boy with his mother,the first holiday morning they went to the shore beach. Jerry discovered a secret tunnel which passes from one side of a massive rock formation to the other and many feet below the surface of the ocean.
One day while he was swimming some native boys came  swim  into the tunnel. All the boys were suprised and later they realised that the guy is a foreign.Swimming to Jerry was a hobby although it is  very dangerous and risky he don`t care with putting himself in such risky.
A young  man facing himself and innermost  fears. The native boys  were suprised  by the way he was swimming for a long distance above  the water level splatering like a foolish dog.
Jerry endurance is tested to the limit when he tries to swim under water  tunnel.

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