Rites Of Passage In All Brothers Are The Same And Through The Tunnel

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“All Brothers are the Same” by and “Through The Tunnel” by are two stories were two boys go through a rite of passage, which is different for both of them. Although these stories might seem similar, they are more different than similar for a few reasons. The main differences between the stories are where they live, what their rite of passage is, and how much help they have. One reason is The main character in “All Brothers are the Same”, Temas, lives in an African Tribe in the grasslands of Africa and the main character in “Through The Tunnel”, Jerry, is on a summer vacation to the beach. While Temas’s rite of passage is killing a tiger, Jerry’s rite of passage is to swim around and then go back up to the surface and live in a villa. There

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