Through The Tunnel
SHAVING THROUGH TUNNEL ESSAY
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and in exchange-taken my youth. In this quote Sara Teas suggest that when child-like excitement goes away, your intellectual capacity has grown, and you see things more realistically, that’s when you have matured. In the stories Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing and Shaving by Leslie Norris the authors suggest that growing in age had=s nothing to do with maturing. They show that maturing comes by developing certain qualities or going through certain experiences.
“In order to mature you must realize that you are the one that has to make things happen for you, it must be a battle within yourself”, Lois Martin …show more content…
It means that you will do because you realize that it needs to be done and it’s the right thing to do. Berry showed this kind of responsibility in Shaving. Berry turned down an invite to have a victory coffee with his friends in order to go help his desperately ill father. That shows that berry was growing mature enough to put others before his self. Berry also decided to shave his father even though he was not asked. He could’ve waited for someone to come but he knew his father was feeling uncomfortable with his growing beard. “You could’ve used your electric razor”. Berry’s dad expected him to do what was easier and convenient because that’s what immature Berry would do. But Berry was getting mature enough to realize that his dad would’ve perfered the razor. The conversation between Berry and his father while berry was shaving his father’s neck was the passing of the torch of being the man of the house. The father tells Berry that he is too young for “this” to happen. I feel that “this” is the moment where Berry is officially a man. The story says that the father had let go of his authority and handed it over. Berry is now a
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and in exchange-taken my youth. In this quote Sara Teas suggest that when child-like excitement goes away, your intellectual capacity has grown, and you see things more realistically, that’s when you have matured. In the stories Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing and Shaving by Leslie Norris the authors suggest that growing in age had=s nothing to do with maturing. They show that maturing comes by developing certain qualities or going through certain experiences.
“In order to mature you must realize that you are the one that has to make things happen for you, it must be a battle within yourself”, Lois Martin …show more content…
It means that you will do because you realize that it needs to be done and it’s the right thing to do. Berry showed this kind of responsibility in Shaving. Berry turned down an invite to have a victory coffee with his friends in order to go help his desperately ill father. That shows that berry was growing mature enough to put others before his self. Berry also decided to shave his father even though he was not asked. He could’ve waited for someone to come but he knew his father was feeling uncomfortable with his growing beard. “You could’ve used your electric razor”. Berry’s dad expected him to do what was easier and convenient because that’s what immature Berry would do. But Berry was getting mature enough to realize that his dad would’ve perfered the razor. The conversation between Berry and his father while berry was shaving his father’s neck was the passing of the torch of being the man of the house. The father tells Berry that he is too young for “this” to happen. I feel that “this” is the moment where Berry is officially a man. The story says that the father had let go of his authority and handed it over. Berry is now a