Through The Tunnel Jerry's Transformation

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In the story Through The Tunnel, Doris Lessing shows Jerry's transformation from childhood to adulthood. This maturity is shown in multiple ways. One way that Jerry's transformation is shown is when he leaves his mother. Instead of going to the safe beach with his mother's protection, he goes to another one. The other beach that he goes to is treacherous and fearsome. By doing this he breaks away from her protection. When he refers to the bay as “the real sea” it shows how he is not under his mother's protection anymore. He feels free. Before he goes to this beach he stays on the “safe” beach, and thinks about the other beach all morning. “He did not ask for permission, on the following day, to go to his beach. He went, before his mother

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