The story, Through the tunnel, is about a boy named Jerry and is 11 years old. In this story a Jerry goes to the beach with his mother on vacation. Jerry is a boy who would do almost anything to become a friend with someone. In this story Jerry tries to impress these foreign boys by trying to swim through a tunnel. Jerry’s mother lets him do what he wants but she is aware of Jerry’s need as Jerry is the same to his mother.
So, on that note, this is not another cliché story about losing my one true love, but about the time I lost myself. Long ago I found myself watching a movie I had no idea would be my inspiration. It’s about a little fish that swam away into uncharted waters, anxious to prove his individuality to his overly protective father, Marlin. On the first day of school, Nemo, a little bright orange clownfish --with an undeveloped fin-- was peer pressured into touching a big boat off the coast of Australia. Soon enough, Nemo found himself being captured in the net of a deep-sea-diving dentist, who searches for unique fish for his dentistry aquarium.
With some convincing from his son, Marlin decides it is safe for Nemo to go to school. After dropping Nemo off, he realizes that that the first class field trip is to a potentially dangerous place. He races to catch up with the class and tells Nemo that he is not ready for the real world. The movie takes a dramatic turn when in an act of defiance, Nemo heads out to the open water where he is captured by a scuba
Deliberate Practice What is Deliberate Practice? Deliberate practice is when you use different practices for the one area you are trying to get better in.. This means not practicing the same thing over and over again. When I would use deliberate practice in swimming, I would get better at my performance. But in history class I did not use deliberate practice, because I was not interested in the class and the information we were reading and learning about.
In the beginning Jerry was thinking “To be with them, of them, was a craving that filled his whole body,”(101) he was trying to become apart of them and he did. When the boys were swimming to the other side Jerry could not figure out how they did it resulting him acting out, “And now, in a panic of failure, he yelled up, in English, “Look at me! Look!” and he began splashing and kicking the water like a foolish dog.”(101) When the older boys gave him the frown he knew they no longer accepted him so when they left “He cried openly, fists in his eyes. There was no one to see him and he cried himself out.”(103) I’ve had a similar experience with horses. I wanted to be just like my sister, Sara, because it always seemed like my parents liked her better because she was better at everything.
Neddy Merrill ’s simple belief in changing his life by simply refusing traditional values. The story starts off with Neddy Merrill taking up the challenge of swimming home through his neighbors’ pools, for “the day was beautiful and it seemed to him that a long swim might increase and celebrate its beauty.” (604) Cheever hints a small case of laughter while describing Neddy’s idea: “When Neddy Merrill tries to do something new, something heroic and legendary, all he can come up with is to swim home through a chain of 16 pools.”(The Swimmer 284) His inexpert personality slowly clashes with reality as the story continues and at the end of the story, Neddy finds his house empty, and falls into a deep hole of confusion and pain. The plot of “The Swimmer” is strange; many of its characters and events are figurative, intentionally handing over a “dreamlike effect” (Coale, 46) to the short story. It is not important whether the events stand by reasoning or the laws of nature. Therefore, instead of speaking of the plot as a whole, it would be more correct to challenge event by event, or in this case pool by pool in order to discuss the cause of Neddy’s defeat which starts halfway through his journey.
Thus, every aspect of Truman's life is influenced entirely by the media. For example, in Truman's childhood, his aspirations of becoming an explorer were crushed by his teacher by saying “it's too late,” as there was “nothing left to explore,”. Truman became discouraged and never became one. Also, the tragic death of his 'father' as sea was the cause for Truman's fear of water. For this, when Truman wanted to go to Fiji to escape from his world, his boss sent him on an assignment to leave Seahaven by boat to remind him of his fear and prevent him from leaving.
Because his disability is visibly evident, it is openly discussed as if he were not in the room. Even before this exchange in the school, Marlin is seen reinforcing the idea of disability to Nemo as attached to his deformity. When Nemo gets stuck in a coral, his father tells him “you’ll never get yourself out of there. I’ll do it.” On the first day of school, Marlin has a discussion with the teacher, telling him that Nemo has a small fin and tires easily. A scene later he barges into the field trip, lecturing the teacher that “he isn’t a good swimmer” in hearing distance of all of Nemo’s classmates, then telling his son “You think you can do these things, but you just can’t!” In spite of his own signs of post traumatic stress
The All of It opens with Father Declan who has decided to go out fishing for the day on a river beat that seems all too impossible to catch anything. As the day persists, Father Declan reflects upon his clashing ideas concerning of the story told to him by Enda Dennehy, a recent widow of Kevin Dennehy. Kevin and Enda are believed to be married by everyone they know until Enda reveals to Father Declan that Kevin and her are actually brother and sister. Her story exposes that Kevin and her had slept together once but not out of sexual ideas, but out of creation and survival. Enda explains that her father, a mindless drunk, would lock his two children up in a freezing room until on one final occasion he did not come home for almost two days.
Maybe suffering from depression or insecurities or just felt overwhelmed with life in general. Lines eleven and twelve read “I was much too far out all my life and not waving but drowning.” I think this man had many internal struggles that he had a hard time dealing with and he didn’t know how to get help with them. Maybe he purposely swam out to far to see if the observers would help him? Maybe he unconsciously committed suicide to see if a friend would intervene. This man was metaphorically out of his depth.