In "Through the Tunnel," the negative connotations and dangerous imagery
associated with the "wild bay" help to convey the theme that growing up
can be a painful and scary process. Jerry longs to grow up and to fit
in with the "older boys -- men to Jerry" who swim and dive at the wild
bay rather than remain on the "safe beach" with his mother, a beach
later described as "a place for children." The way to the wild bay is
marked with "rough, sharp rock" and the water shows "stains of purple
and darker blue." The rocks sound as if they could do a great deal of
damage to the body, and the stains are described like a bruise. It
sounds painful. Then, "rocks lay like discoloured monsters under the
surface" of the water and "irregular cold currents from the deep shocked
[Jerry's] limbs." This place sounds frightening and alarming and
unpredictable. Given that this is the location associated with
maturity, with the time after childhood, we can understand that the
process of growing up and becoming a man is a time that is fraught with
dangers and fear, because Jerry endures both in the "wild bay." hopes this helps
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