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Through the Tunnel

Exposition

Exposition

  • When the narrator/author introduces the characters, setting, style, and themes.
  • In Through the Tunnel the Exposition is when we are introduced to Jerry and his mother, who are on a foreign country, at a beautiful tourist beach. We learn that Jerry is an only child, and her mother does not want to be overwhelmingly protective.
  • The story is in Third Person Omniscent.

Rising Action

Rising Action

  • This is where the main conflict is introduced, and where the plot starts to thicken.
  • In Through the Tunnel, Jerry notices a few boys jumping from the rocks into the water, and through a hole in the rocks. He starts thinking that he should train so that he could do it too, and gets up to two minutes underwater. He gets nosebleeds every day as a result.

Climax

Climax

  • This is the plots peak of action/drama/conflict. We learn what happens to the main characters.
  • In Through the Tunnel, after Jerry trains to two minutes, he tries to go through the tunnel, and end up getting to two minutes in the tunnel, but isnt out of it yet. His nose starts to bleed, he starts to lose consiousness, his goggles FILL with blood, but he finally makes it out of there before he drowns.

Falling Action

  • When the main characters look back and analyze the situation that happened, proccessing it.
  • In Through the Tunnel, this was when Jerry saw the boys while cleaning off his face from the blood, and decided he just wanted to go back to the villa with his mother. He wanted to rest.

Falling Action

Resolution

Resolution

  • Usually the conflict is resolved by here, but some stories have open-ended endings. This is where the story ties together any loose ends and the character has changed as a result of this conflict.
  • In Through the Tunnel, this is where Jerry is at the villa, and his mother questions him about his pale state. She tells him not to over do it after he says he can hold his breath underwater for two minutes. He just agrees and no longer wantst to go to the bay.

Theme

  • The theme of this story is the passage from the child that Jerry was, to the adult he now is becoming after this traumatic event.
  • This is a coming of age short story.

Theme

Conflict

Conflict

  • The conflicts in this story are both extrernal and internal.
  • The internal one being that Jerry overcame his mental liminations by getting through the tunnel, and perservering even after all hope was lost.
  • The external one was human vs. nature, where Jerry battles it out with the tunnel and the water, desperately trying to get back to the surface.
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