(Lessing 402). The rocks being described as discolored monsters is showing even though Jerry wants to be own his own and swim in the bay, he is scared at the thought of being alone in the water and not seeing his mother again. The story symbolizes Jerry’s rite of passage into a new stage of his life. He went from tagging along with his mother to the beach every day to exploring a cove where challenges await him, only him. Through bloody noses, and breath taking drills, Jerry prepares himself to swim through that mysterious tunnel to cure his curiosity.
The setting of the story is connected to theme loss of innocence. By reading the beginning of the story, and its title "Sandcastles,” you think it’s going to be a nice relaxing day at the beach for the three boys. However, when the woman comes into play she changes the whole mood of the story from fun a day for the boys exploring to a darker plan of sadness and death. The reason why the story’s theme is loss or innocence is because when the boys came to the beach they were expecting to have a fun-relaxing day. Until they run into a woman on a remote beach who deceives them into helping her end her life.
White contrasts the sounds on the lake from his childhood with the present ones when mentioning a boating trip with his son: “In the old days the boats were powered by inboards “and when they were at a little distance, the noise they made was a sedative, an ingredient of summer sleep. . . But now the campers all had outboards and these made a petulant, irritable sound” (White), which displays his inability to accept the technological changes that come around with time, in places that felt very remote in his youth. As White walks down the wharf with his son, he mentions “I had trouble making out which was I, the one walking at my side, the one walking in my pants” (White), showing that although he wishes to relive the entire trip through his son, he is gaining a sense of awareness that he is an individual in a different position than in his past and his environment has also undergone change due to
The beach symbolizes his childhood and safety, while the rocky bay symbolizes his step to adulthood and the difficulties that came along with it, and also maturity and his independence. In the story, Jerry is faced with a challenge that he desperately wanted to conquer. While being around the other boys, he was shown a tunnel underneath the water in the bay where the boys would swim through. But Jerry was not physically and mentally ready for the task. So Jerry dedicated
Labour Day is a Dreaded Bell in the Schoolyard of the Mind In this short piece, Harry Bruce briefly explains the dread that he feels when Labour Day comes around. He constantly compares the good memories of his summer opposed to the negative things that he wishes to avoid. Being a student no longer pleases Bruce seeing how he has developed an anxiety towards the start of every school year. Within the first paragraph, Bruce mentions, “All this would end.” While talking about his experiences during this two month break. With his morbid sense of understanding he expresses his endless hatred and neglect towards the day that is known as “Labour Day”.
Tom and Jerry are similar by the way they are motivated, strategize, and persevere. In Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket, Tom loses one of his papers out his window on the ledge of his building and decides to go out and get it even though it will be dangerous. In Through the Tunnel, Jerry goes to explore the bay and meets three boys that go under water for long amounts of time to come up on the other side of the barrier of rocks. He decides to try even though he knows it’s dangerous and he doesn’t know how they even get through the rocks. Tom uses strategy to walk along the ledge without falling and get his paper successfully.
The movie is based around a young rapper called Jimmy B-Rabbit Smith, who is stuck a rut and is struggling to make a success of his life. He has been brought up with racial abuse and is surrounded my violence and drugs everyday of his life. He lives with his mum and her boyfriend in a trailer park due to his dead end job. His family doubt this potential and don’t offer him a great deal of support to achieve his dreams. Life does start to look brighter when he meets an old friend called Wink who has contacts who can get Jimmy deal to record a demo of his music that can possibly lead to a rap career.
2/6/10 English 9 Honors Lord of the Flies Thesis The Truth In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies a group of school boys from England are stranded on a deserted island where they learn about the evil of man’s heart. Simon, although very shy, is the symbol of light and truth, a Christ- figure. Even though he has a medical condition involving periodic fainting, he gives the others hope in the darkest of times and always tells the truth. Simon overcomes many terrors while on the island, but the things he cannot conquer is his periodic fainting, shyness, and the perceptions the others have about him. Simon is asked if he believes in the beast at the meeting that was called after Samneric see the beast: “You, Simon?
In the course of this summer, Chelsea asks her parents to take care of the teenaged son of her fiancé at their vacation home, “on Golden Pond.” Through his relationship with the young boy, Billy Ray, Norman Thayer learns to love and his daughter learns to love him (Canby, 2). Norman, as an aging man contemplating death, would be seen by Erikson (173) as having chosen a negative identity with respect to his only child. This negative identity engenders despair within Norman’s personality, despair that is related to his inescapable knowledge of impending death which Erikson (140) maintains “expresses the feeling that time is short, too short for the attempt to start another life.” Further, Erikson (140) states that “such a despair is often hidden behind a show of disgust, a misanthropy or a chronic contemptuous displeasure with particular institutions and particular people.” This characterization neatly describes Norman Thayer whom Canby (1) says is “furiously aware of his physical and mental decline and as frightened of death as he is
“Through the Tunnel” takes place on a vacation beach and the rocky bay next to it. “The young English boy stopped at a turning of the path and looked down at a wild and rocky bay, and then to the crowded beach he knew so well.” Jerry is an English boy on vacation with his mother and doesn’t want to spend his time on the beach anymore, but wants to explore the rocky bay where he finds the underwater tunnel he wants to go through. In “Brothers are the Same” the story takes place in the dry lands of Africa. “They live on the Serengeti Plain, which makes a carpet at the feet of high Kilimanjaro.” Taking place on the hot plains of Africa is where Temas will face the trial that will determine his rite of passage 2 into adulthood, the lion. Whether on vacation on a beach or on the hot plains of Africa, a trial is