Positive Influences In 'Through The Tunnel'

Positive Influences in Stories Positive influences help people understand problems and motive them into solve them. Writers know of these positive influences and use them as a literary elements in their stories. Writers such as Doris Lessing, David Raymond, and William Nolen use positive influences when creating their characters and generating a moral for the story. “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing tells the story about a young boy named Jeremy who tries to prove to himself and the foreign boys that he could swim through the tunnel, he works on training his body to breathe underwater and after a long day goes into the comfort of his mother. Another story that displays positive influences is “On Being Seventeen, Bright, and Unable to Read” by David Raymond. It tells the story of a boy living with dyslexia. He had been teased and made fun off all through his life and he came to the conclusion that he was dumb. People understood what he was going though and he changed as time grew. He learned how to use his disability as a strength over a disability. “The First
Nolen many positive influences are shown. The strongest positive influence is when the doctors are in the E.R. and the training doctor is doing the surgery. The support doctor is helping the William with the surgery by motivating him and giving him the strength to complete the surgery,. “Now cut off the appendix.’ at least in this, the definitive act of operation, I would be decisive, took the knife and with one quick slash cut through the appendix-to close to the ligature. ‘Oh oh, watch it,’ said george. ‘That tie is going to slip.’ It did. The appendiceal stump lay there, open. I felt faint. ‘Don’t panic,’ said george. “we’ve still got the purse string…’two more knots,’ said george. ‘Just to be safe” (Nolen 353). George Walter kept the doctor safe and wanted him to succeed in the surgery. He motivated him and give him helpful hints about the