The usual interpretation is that the "safe beach" represents the comfort and security of Jerry's childhood and his mother and the rocky, "wild beach" represents the unknown adolescent future without his mother. The "tunnel" is a challenge or rite of passage or test Jerry must pass to gain access to that future.
Comic relief
Other persons in a piece utilize this literary term as a means to irritate others or keep themselves confident.It generally attempts in delivering emotional or other stress arises from a comic episode arbitrated in the midst of serious or tragic elements in a drama.
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The effect I think "The Hook" would have on teenagers in the 1950s would be to not make out at random "Lover's Lane/Cove" type places. Their parents would not have wanted their kids to probably get pregnant and become parents at such young ages, so I guess these "Hook" stories worked in rural areas. Asylum and jail breakouts were common in those times without the types of technology they have today. With this being said, teenagers, today would not believe in this story. Also, I would say gun laws are more lenient than before, depending on a state by state cases, so people can defend themselves more easily. Also, video and live stream technology exist so teenagers today will have an assurance that the attacker will be caught if they are attacked.
The behalf that Wiesel accepts the Nobel prize is on literature.
I'm fairly certain it's the first answer but it may be the third answer as well but I believe it's the first more though.
