Through the Tunnel

Setting
Time: Morning
Season: Summer
Place: France

Plot
In the story Through the Tunnel, Jerry and his mother are visiting a beach in another country. Jerry sees a group of boys and wants to socialise with them.They invite him over;he seeks acceptance from the group,there is but one barrier and that is of language.The boys go on their play,but Jerry is still an outsider to the group. Jerry joins the boys who dive from a high rock into the water. He jumps into the water only to realise that the boys have slipped into some other place under the water. This confuses him and builds curiosity in him. He is determined to swim through the tunnel to find out where it leads to. He gets a pair of goggles and practices his breathing under water. He precipitately goes through the tunnel. His journey through the tunnel is important because it is very difficult and he thinks he will drown. He reaches the other side and is exhausted; He is puzzled as to what is going on. His only concern is to make it back to his mother. The experience is one vital one as he has proven to himself that he can do it. However, upon telling his mother, her response is simple and she minimises the importance of his quest.


Main character

Jerry is a young English boy. One with pride, due to his pride, he pushed himself to dive off the rock and swim through the tunnel with the older boys. He had a will to survive, he felt he was not going to make it through the last stretch of the tunnel, but he just kept going until he resurfaced. He is courageous, he swam through the tunnel even though there was a doubt in his mind that he would not make it.