Through the Tunnel

Point of View Essay In the short story "Through the tunnel", Doris Lessing describes the adventure of Jerry, a young English boy trying to swim through an underwater tunnel. Throughout the story, the author uses the third person omniscient point of view to describe the boy's surroundings and to show us both what he and the other characters are thinking and what is happening around them. By using this point of view, the author is …

…eyes), a lot of essential information (what his mother thinks about letting Jerry go alone to the beach) about the story's setting and its characters have to be given, thus providing the reader with a number of clues that help him or her render the story and all its elements in his/her mind, so that the theme can be comprehended and thought upon, thus fulfilling the author's purpose of divulging his or her ideas.