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Think of a time when you watched someone try to do something difficult or challenging. Did watching him or her make you want to try it youself?
Yes, it makes me to feel like if I had to affront my challenges. When I see people doing difficult challenges I start making them too.
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Reason to read
Read this story to see how challenges in life are important, unless they´re difficult you are smart and you can overcome those challenges.
In this story a boy face a difficult challenge in a beach and reading it will help us to improve it in life.
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Background Info
Underwater diving is very dangerous because of water preassure, this story takes place at beach resort in Mediterranean Sea.
Many European people and from all over the world spend time in peninsulas and coastline because they offer nice diving places and good swimming.
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Vocabulary
Contrition: a feeling of sorrow for having done something wrong.
Idly: without doing any purposeful activity.
Beseeching: pleading, beggining.
Inquisitive: curious.
Torment: extreme pain or suffering.
Incredulous: unwilling to believe something.
Convulsive: sudden and violent.
Lapses: temporary interrumptions.
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1. Lapses
2. Inquisitive
3. Torment
4. Convulsive
5. Incredulous
6. Idly
7. Contrition
8. Beseeching
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Summary
Jerry is traveling with his widow mom to a beach, but later he saw a wilder beach so he prefer that beach. He saw some guys diving to the beach, and then getting up after 120 seconds underwater, he swam down to see why they take so much time, and he se a tunnel, then he trained his lungs to to the same and get '' Through the tunnel ''.
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Themes
Rites of Passage: Jerry´s was traveling to a ¨place for small kids¨ because her mom wants a safe place for him, but he sees a place ¨wild and rocky¨ because he wants to be an adolecent.
Individualism: Because he only thinks of himselft and to hold breath more than others.
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Characters
Jerry: Is an eleven year boy from England. That frequently visit a beach with her mom.
Mother: Is a widow woman, who takes her son to vacation at the beach.
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In "Through the Tunnel" by Dorris Lessing, how is Jerry's growth and evolving maturity reflected in his relationship with his mother?
He wants to do what he want and want to feel like an adult.
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Created & published on StoryJumper™ ©2024 StoryJumper, Inc.
All rights reserved. Sources: storyjumper.com/attribution
Preview audio:
storyj.mp/af7dyyky93q7
Think of a time when you watched someone try to do something difficult or challenging. Did watching him or her make you want to try it youself?
Yes, it makes me to feel like if I had to affront my challenges. When I see people doing difficult challenges I start making them too.
What You Know
2
Reason to read
Read this story to see how challenges in life are important, unless they´re difficult you are smart and you can overcome those challenges.
In this story a boy face a difficult challenge in a beach and reading it will help us to improve it in life.
3
Background Info
Underwater diving is very dangerous because of water preassure, this story takes place at beach resort in Mediterranean Sea.
Many European people and from all over the world spend time in peninsulas and coastline because they offer nice diving places and good swimming.
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"Through the Tunnel"
Jerry, an 11-year-old boy, goes on vacation with his widowed mother. He becomes fascinated by a group of divers and trains himself to swim through a tunnel underwater.
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