A Teenager’s Discovery in Growth
Themes from Doris Lessing’s Work “Through the Tunnel”
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- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220131.160How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Doris Lessing; Outward struggles against difficulties; Inward struggles leading to personal growth; Self-discovery in growth
- Abstract
In this paper, the author analyzes the short story “Through the Tunnel” and presents the following points through a close reading of the text. The author studies Lessing’s works on growing up to enrich domestic research on Doris Lessing and provide a deeper understanding of Lessing’s profound humanitarian sentiments. At the same time, it draws readers’ and society’s attention and consideration to the problem of growing up, which has specific practical significance.
“Through the Tunnel” describe an unforgettable beach vacation; during this holiday, boy Jerry has experienced a tremendous external obstacle - not only to learn diving, which is similar to other boys across the bottom of a rock cave but to face growing up with the need to experience the inner struggle, to overcome the little boy’s cowardice and rebellious and unyielding arrogant. These are the processes of self-discovery, self-confusion, and self-precipitation that the young must experience in their personal growth. It is a period of self-discovery during the formative years of adolescence that involves both external struggles to overcome difficulties and internal challenges to form an individual’s character. Whether this critical period can be successfully and safely passed will play a decisive role in the health of a person’s humanity.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Huiyuan Sun PY - 2022 DA - 2022/02/01 TI - A Teenager’s Discovery in Growth BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 884 EP - 888 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220131.160 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220131.160 ID - Sun2022 ER -