through the tunnel by Dorrris Lessing

Setting
summer time at the beach
Main characters
Jerry the eleven year old boy.He like swimming and he is so determined that, what ever he sets  for himself, he does  achieve it. He was the only child to his mother .


Plotting
The story started on the beach on the first morning of the holiday. when the boy decided to go off by himself to the bay. He was  swimming there when the group of big boys came and watched him swimming for a minute. Then they were having a feat of whose being able to swim through the tunnel in the rock, although the boys were not being able to communicate well with him. Jerry wanted to swim through the tunnel with the other boys but he was doubting that he won't make it and he wouldn't be able to swim through the tunnel with out taking a breath of air. Jerry set for himself a promise and persuaded his mother to buy for him swimming goggles which he needed it to sees through the tunnel.  On the day before they were to leave the beach, Jerry decided that it was the time to show that he was feed enough to swim through the tunnel . He prepared himself and dive with the others. He went through different experiences, as such of  running out off oxygen,nose bleeding and feeling the experienced of dying and finally he made it.