setting
Place: British
Time: Summer
main character
Jerry is an 11 years old english boy on vacation with his mother on a beach they have frequented in the past. Jerry's mother is a widow and is sometimes overprotective, sometime not protective enough of her son. jerry attempt to make friends with some older boys on the beach but they ignore him after discovering he is childish.Jerry is jealous of the older boys, he watches them as they swim through a rock in which therr is narrow underwater gap. in an attempt to become equal to them he begins to persistently practice holding his breath for a sufficient timeso he can amplish thisfeat.
plot summary
In lessing through the tunnel, jerry a young english boy and his mother are vocating at a beach they have came to may time in years past. Through the beach's location is not given it is implied to be in a country that is foreign to them both. Each tries to please the other and not to impose too many demands. The mother , who is a widow is determined to be neither possessive nor lacking in devotion and Jerry is turn act from an unfailing impulse of condition-a sort of chivarly.
On the second morning however, Jerry lets it slip that he would like to explore a wild and locky bay he has glimpsed from the path. His conscientious mother sends him on his way with what she hopes is a casual air and Jerry leaves behind the crowded safe beach where he has always played
