Through the Tunnel

Setting
The story takes place at wild beach and it is in the morning.

Main Character

Jerry Berry,a young English boy. He is 11 years old.he is the only child in the family and is and orphan.He is a good swimmer.He can speak English and French.

Plot

Jerry berry is a young English boy who went with his mother for vacation athe beach that they visited for many times in past years.Even though the beach location is not given, it's assumeed to be in a foreign country. They try to please others and not to impose so many demands.The widow mother is determined to be neither possessive nor lacking in devotion and jerry on the other hand in turn act from an unfailing impulse of contrition a sort of chivarly. Jerry joined the other boys in diving off a high point into the water for a while,the biggest boy dived in and does not come up. One morning seemed full of chattering boys.The next,the air and the surface of the water were empty. Through the heavy blue dark shapes could be seen moving and grouping, Jerry dives down and sees a black wall of rock looms at him when the boys come up each of them on the other side of the rock, he understood that they had swum through some holes in it. He could see nothing through the stinging salt water, but a blank rock. Jerry felt like a failure and shame yelling at the other boys first in English and then in French. Jerry is determined to be able to swim through the tunnel he rest a bit then see the local boys diving half a mile away, but he has no strength to move on diving again. He blurts out that he can stay under water for two to three minutes at least his mother told him not to do it again.