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Through The Protagonist: Through The Tunnel By Doris Lessing

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In the story “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing a boy named Jerry (the protagonist) and his mother (one of the antagonists) went on a summer vacation to a beach in France, ever since Jerry's father passed away him and his mom had a feeling that they have to please each other and stay by each others sides. The one time Jerrys mother lets lets him go out on the beach by himself he finds older boys jumping off the rocks by the bay, and staying under water going through a tunnel (another antagonist). Jerry makes a goal that he will go through the tunnel before he leaves to go back home. Jerry trains his body to be able to stay underwater for long periods of times, but as a result to pushing his body over his limits he gets terrible headaches
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