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though i couldnt find “england versus england” here in goodreads, after that short story, this is my second one from the author.
though i liked the first one better, this is also one that i will not forget in a long time, with the feeling of epiphany at the end, it had me sob from the very first lines.
im willing to check out the other works of the author after myrd term in university finishes, in other words when reading them is no longer my academic responsibility.
not that i dont enjoy academic readings, i do, but reading for your own enjoyment is something else and the author made me want to read them for my own enjoyment gt.
lt Easy, engaging read that leaves you thinking,

A great short story, vivid description and sympathetic characterisation enhance the simple but powerful plot.
Themes of loneliness, the power of love, adolescence and adventure underpin this great little story! dumb jerry Doris Lessing tem para mim uma qualidade notável inerente a todas as narrativas que dela conheço: é uma exímia narradora dos ritos sociais e familiares.


Sejam provações que partem de assunções erradas e preconceitos dirigidos aos seus personagens, estigmas que envolvem papéis e funções atribuídos a um determinado género ou, neste caso, a conquista da maturidade, Lessing é sempre uma minuciosa defensora da emancipação pessoal masculina como feminina.


O seu talento reside em pegar, neste conto, num evento aleatório e banal e transformálo num ritual de passagem quase místico da infância para a idade adulta através de um pequeno grande desafio autoimposto pelo seu herói.


O pequeno Jerry tem por objetivo uma proeza que vê intentar e suceder alguns rapazes mais velhos.

O desafio é imemorial: a superação dos elementos e da natureza, e o domínio sobre si mesmo.

Após a vitória sobre o desafio, o neófito já se encontra num nível superior do culto conquistou a sua independência: é agora um adulto.


Sob camadas, Lessing é pródiga a trabalhar a narrativa, Alguns dos seus constituintes, por exemplo, remetem para o secretismo e a paciência como elementos de maturidade outros para a alienação, o alheamento ou a solidão como elementos de caráter eufemístico.


Não gostando de me apelidar de fã dos chamados comingofage novels, faço particular menção a casos como este, na obra de Lessing, de Harper Lee, Dickens ou Sylvia Plath.
This short story provides in a descriptive manner the story of a boy who wants to accomplish a feat that he has seen older boys do.
This story was just perfect, I felt completely immersed pun intended in this young boys adventure, I think it really sums up our struggle as children to push for the goals in out sights, and not to give up regardless of the obstacles we face.

I felt so linked to the character that I actually held my breath whilst reading,
There was just the right amount of excitement and danger, and such beautiful prose, I really deserves an extra star from me, The short story "Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing told about the young English boy, Jerry, who came with his mother for a summer vacation to the sea abroad.
The author described in the first paragraph these two people: the mother walked on in front of the boy, carrying a brightstriped bag and the boy who stopped at turning off the path and looked down at a wild and rocky bay.


Next morning Jerry asked his mother to permit him to go and have a look at the rocks there.
She agreed. He was an only child, eleven years old, she was a widow, She thought that he mustn't feel he ought to be with her,

Jerry went down to the rock, he jumped into the sea, he was a good swimmer.
He dived and when he appeared on the surface, he noticed a group of boys, They spoke a language which he didn't understand, He very much wanted to be with them, He was so glad to see that one boy noticed him and smiled, They shouted cheerfully at him and when they understood that he was a foreigner they proceeded to ignore him.
Jerry was happy to be with them,

Next time Jerry saw one boy dived into the water and didn't come up, Jerry yelled in warning, the other boys looked at him idly and turned their eyes back toward the water.
After a long time, the boy came up on the other side of a rock and shouted triumphantly.
The other boys followed the example of the fellow, and Jerry understood that they swam through the tunnel in the rock.


The idea of going through the tunnel intrigued Jerry, He had passed several classes at a diving school, He thought he must learn to control his breathing, He counted the time being underwater, Jerry exercised his lungs as if it was the goal of his whole life.
At night, the boy dreamed of the waterfilled cave in the rock, His nose was bleeding.

He continued training, The boys made a pause while he counted a hundred and sixty, He thought that now if he tried, he could get through that long tunnel, but he was not going to try yet.
The author wrote, "A curious, most unchildlike persistence, a controlled impatience, made him wait, "

He

understood how dangerous swimming through the tunnel could be, He was frightened but he said to himself that if he did not do it now, he never would.
Eventually, he did it. It happened in the morning, he went to the beach and swam through the tunnel, When he came to the surface, he saw "the local boys diving and playing half a mile away.
He did not want them, He wanted nothing but to get back home and lie down, "

He told his mother that he can stay underwater for three minutes, The mother looked at him closely, She noticed that his face was pale, he was strained, His eyes were glazedlooking. She was worried. She was ready to argue against his underwater swimming, "but he gave in at once, It was no longer of the least importance to go to the bay, "

A reader can assume that when the boy becomes an adult he would be recognized for the great achievements.
The idea that if you set your mind to something, then you can accomplish it was expressed in Jerrys desire to getting through the tunnel and as a result, he did that.
After Jerry reached his goal, he no longer felt the desire to demonstrate it or to be congratulated by the other boys.
In the case of Jerry, the tunnel symbolizes the passage from childhood to adulthood, In the story of the boy who went through the tunnel, the author represented people who are able to overcome difficulties.


Here is the link to the text of the story:
sitelink com/LOR/medi It is nothing extraordinary, It does have some elements of surprise that make it just interesting enough for the reader to keep reading till the end but it's not much.
I was a little disappointed and was expecting more from this Nobel laureate, It's a battle of willings, Through the Tunnel Creative Short Stories, Doris Lessing

Through the Tunnel is a short story written by British author Doris Lessing, originally published in the American weekly magazine The New Yorker in.


Jerry, a young English boy, and his widowed mother are vacationing at a beach they have come to many times in years past.
Though the beachs exact location is not given, it is obviously in a foreign country, Each tries to please the other and not to impose too many demands, The mother is “determined to be neither possessive nor lacking in devotion,” and Jerry, in turn, acts from an “unfailing impulse of contrition a sort of chivalry.
” On the second morning, Jerry mentions that he would like to explore a “wild and rocky bay” which he glimpsed from the path.
He wanted to act grownup and not constantly travel with his mother,

His conscientious mother sends him on his way with what she hopes is a casual air, and Jerry leaves behind the crowded “safe beach” where he has always played.
A strong swimmer, Jerry plunges in and goes so far out that he can see his mother only as a small yellow speck on the other beach.
Looking back to shore, Jerry sees some boys strip off their clothes and go running down to the rocks, and he swims toward them but keeps his distance.


The boys are “of that coast all of them were burned smooth dark brown and speaking a language he did not understand.
To be with them, of them was a craving that filled his whole body, ” He watches the boys, who are older and bigger than he is, until finally one waves at him and Jerry swims eagerly over.
As soon as they realize he is a foreigner, though, they forget about him, but he is happy just to be among them.


Jerry joins them in diving off a high point into the water for a while, and then the biggest boy dives in and does not come up.
“One moment, the morning seemed full of chattering boys the next, the air and the surface of the water were empty.
But through the heavy blue, dark shapes could be seen moving and groping, ” Jerry dives down, too, and sees a “black wall of rock looming at him, ” When the boys come up one by one on the other side of the rock, he “understood that they had swum through some gap or hole in it.
However he could see nothing through the stinging salt water but the blank rock, ”

Jerry feels failure and shame, yelling at them first in English and then in nonsensical French, the “pleading grin on his face like a scar that he could never remove.
” The boys dive into the water all around him, and he panics when they do not come back to the surface.
Only when he has mentally counted todoes he admit that they are gone for sure, Believing they are leaving to get away from him, he “cries himself out, ”

He spends the next several days contemplating swimming through the rock tunnel himself, and he practices holding his breath underwater.
After one round of practice, his nose bleeds so badly that he becomes dizzy and nauseated, and he worries that the same might happen in the tunnel, that he really might die there, trapped.
He resolves to wait until the day before he leaves when his mother says they will be gone in four days, but an impulse overtakes him two days beforehand, and he feels that he must make his attempt immediately now or never.
“He was trembling with fear that he would not go and he was trembling with horror at the long, long tunnel under the rock, under the sea.
”

Once inside the tunnel he begins counting, swimming cautiously, feeling both victory and panic, “He must go on into the blackness ahead, or he would drown, His head was swelling, his lungs cracking, He was no longer quite conscious, ” Even when he surfaces, he fears “he would sink now and drown he could not swim the few feet back to the rock.
” In "Through the Tunnel", the literal passage through the rock tunnel becomes a comingofage passage for Jerry.
Having accomplished his challenge, he returns to his mother's company, satisfied and confident of the future, He does not feel it necessary to tell his mother of the monumental obstacle that he has overcome.


تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز ششم ماه دسامبر سالمیلادی

عنوان: از میان تونل نویسنده: دوریس لسینگ مترجم: مهسا خلیلی تهران: چشمه سالدرص شابکموضوع داستانهای کوتاه از نویسندگان بریتانیا سدهم

لسینگ از میان تونل را در سالمیلادی نوشته و سپس منتشر کرده اند نسخه زبان اصلی چند داستان کوتاه است اما در نسخه ی برگردان شده به فارسی تنها یک داستان از آنها از میان تونل گنجانده شده است لسینگ در این داستان ماجرای پسر جوانی را بازگو میکند که در تعطیلات خود در کنار دریا تلاش میکند تا پایداری خود را هنگام شنا از میان تونلی در زیر آب به محک و سنجش بگذارد قهرمان داستان جری پسر یازده ساله ای که در آستانه گذر از کودکی به جوانی است به همراه مادرش در کشوری بیگانه تعطیلات تابستانی خویش را سپری میکند, یک روز به هنگام شنا با چند پسر بزرگتر از خودش برخورد میکند. پسر بزرگها از راهی زیر زمینی که از اینسوی صخره به سوی دیگرش راه دارد با شنا عبور میکنند. پسر که نخست توانایی از گذر را ندارد حس شکست و سرخوردگی پیدا میکند و سپس با تمرین بیشتر و با وجود خطر غرق شدن از معبر میگذرد. این پیروزی حس استقلال از مادر و اعتماد به نفس را برای وی به ارمغان میآورد.

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