In at least 150 words, identify a theme in "Through the Tunnel" and explain how the setting of the story contributes to that theme.
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In "through the Tunnel," horrifying pictures associated with "wild bay" help to express the theme of growing up that can creepy and painful procedure. Jerry wish to grow up and fit in with the "Older boys" who swim and dive at the wild bay instead of remaining on the "safe beach" with his mother. The way to the wild bay is manifest with "rough, sharp rock" and the water shows "stains of purple and darker blue." The rocks sound as if they could do a big arrangement of harm to the body, and the stains are described like a bruise. It sounds painful. Then, "rocks lay like discolored monsters under the surface" of the water and "irregular cold currents from the deep shocked limbs of Jerry." This place crashes frightening and alarming and unpredictable. Seems that this is the place linked with maturity, with the time after childhood, we can understand that the course of growing up and becoming a man is a time that is disappointed with risks and fear, because Jerry undergoes both in the "wild bay."