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General Mariano, Alvarez Cavite

Bachelor of Arts in Communication

Fiction Writing
A Midterm Requirement in
ABC3110: Creative Writing

THROUGH THE TUNNEL

By:
Capindo, Denmark B.

To:
Ms. Natasha Nicole N. Tindan

November 2020
This template will serve as your guide on working on your short story. Read and understand the
requirements needed for you to be able to comply and work well on this project. PLAGIARISM
is NOT ALLOWED. Please have your original work.

Instruction: Below are the elements of fiction, have it all presented in different pages.

• Setting
• is a beach on the coast. The beach is most likely in a foreign country based on the
fact that the boys he meet are a different color than Jerry.
• Characters
 • Jerry. The protagonist of the story, and its only named character, Jerry is a young
English boy on vacation with his mother to a coastal town in a foreign
• Mother. Jerry's mother is a widow on vacation with her son
• Older boys, The only other people in the story are a group of local older boys that
Jerry encounters during his first day exploring the rocky bay.
• Point of View
The third-person The narrator describes the feelings of both Jerry and his mother but
does not penetrate the thoughts of the local boys.

grew long, thin, and grey. These words made Aksionov wonder whether this man knew
who had killed the merchant

Work on the following parts of plot in different pages.

Exposition: when Jerry and his mother arrive at the beach in a foreign country. ... This story is
set in a country that is not England, at a beach. The characters are a mother and her adolescent
son.
Rising Action: Jerry sees the boys diving into the water and swimming through the tunnel and
tries to find it himself, but fails
Conflict: are man versus himself and man versus nature. Jerry, the main character, has the
internal conflict of being torn between childhood that represents dependence and adolescence
that represents independence
Climax: The climax of the story is when Jerry is finally able to hold his breath for long enough
and swims through the tunnel, but begins bleeding from his nose half way through
Falling Action: The falling action takes place as the body is falling towards the sea.
Denouement (or Resolution): The resolution of Doris Lessing's "Through the Tunnel" occurs
after Jerry makes it through the tunnel alive and resurfaces above the water on the other side of
the huge rock. At this point, the reader knows that the main conflict is resolved: Jerry has
accomplished the feat he so strongly desired.
• Theme
In Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing we have the theme of connection, isolation,
determination, failure, independence, conflict and coming of age. Narrated in the third
person by an unnamed narrator the reader realises after reading the story that Lessing may
be exploring the theme of connection
What lesson would you like to convey with your story?
It's no longer important because the lesson that Jerry learned is that what others think is
unimportant. He met and achieved his own goal. He proved it to himself and that is much more
important to him than anything else.
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