Through the tunnel is a grate example of a short story with heavy symbolism. In the story you can tell that Jerry is staring to be at that independent age. In some cultures there are rights of passages you have to complete to be a man. in other cultures like in ours, our youth might feel compelled to prove themselves even though no one is forcing the right of passage. This comes from the human nature to be excepted/ recognized by others. People in high school deal with people they hate to feel like their popular all the time. I think that's what Jerry was trying to do here with the tunnel.

In the begging you see that he wants to go away from his mom which is one of the first few stages of growing up. He decides to go to the rocky beach. From there he goes swimming were he watches him mom for a bit. Later he hears some other older boys playing. he decides to check it out. He finds they are diving under a rock through what appears to be tunnel. He try's to go under but can only find the opening of the tunnel and he can't hold his breath very long. He ends up training himself and making it through the tunnel after grate pain and danger. Mean while his mom has no idea the pain he is putting himself through. Even after he almost died he still doesn't want her to know what he this is weakness. I think the theme is he wants to prove himself a man but he feels he cant show weakness at the same time, but they go hand in hand because even when he made it through the tunnel he was still banged up.

The Shawshank Redemption is the quintessential prison film will have to agree. When you think prison you think of Shawshank usually. The reason is mostly because the movie doesn't sugar coat things like most movie do, like during that rape scene. Yes that's not good to talk about but its so messed up it stays with you. Before I start saying how I think it is, or isn't a good redemption film I think Forrest Gump would have given us some more ammo for a 500 word blog. I will be going about this In a different perspective then you probable have seen before. In the movie The Shawshank Redemption Andy is wrongfully imprisoned by the state of Maine for supposedly murdering his wife and her lover. I will not be mainly focusing on Andy though because he shouldn't have been there in the first place so he cannot be redeemed if he had not wronged anyone. I will instead be focusing on Tommy the guy who was stealing televisions because he actually did something wrong to get in there.

While Tommy the TV thief is in there he acts all tough and what not because its prison its what you do. Andy at first doesn't seem to like him because of his self centered attitude. Later Andy agrees to him that he will help him finish high school after Tommy says he's stupid. Tommy has a lot of trouble with this. He Has trouble because he has been in and out of prison facility's most of his life. While Andy's helping him, Tommy thinks he's wont be able to do it and throws the test away. Andy takes his test from the trash and turns it in for him anyway. Tommy ends up passing and getting his high school diploma. After he realizes that Andy did that I think Tommy goes through a change. I think Tommy needed to know that someone cared for him. Teens and children and sometimes adults have social or mental disorders because of things like that. I'm not saying Tommy had a mental disorder. I just think he needed that to start caring about himself and to care about Andy getting out.

 It turns out Tommy was actually in a prison cell with the guy who actually killed Andy's wife and lover. He realizes this after a while and decides to inform Andy about it because its the right thing to do. Tommy tells him and Andy gets thrown in solitary Because the warden wants him to be his money slave. While Andy's in solitary the warden calls Tommy down for a chat at night outside. I new something was up and I'm sure he did too when warden called him outside. For Tommy to stand up to the warden even though he knows the warden is as crooked as a G.W. Bush took a lot of selflessness. I believe at that moment is when Tommy has his redemption moment, also a bullet in the chest.

Forrest Gump is one of those movies were if you say the name everyone knows what your talking about. The reason for most of this is because of the heart breaks and life lessons Forrest teaches us is not only ok but part of life. He shows the need to shake it off and movie on because good things will come, some even unexpectedly. Just like Gump's mother said "life is like a box of chocolate you never know what your going to get. This film ligers with people who watch it of all ages and different backgrounds. The reasoning behind it is because of the numerous life lessons that come through. Every time something bad happens to him he comes out of it better then before. Which applies to what his mother said that life is like a box of chocolates you never know what your going to get. One might be more bitter then the other chocolate but their both still sweet at the end.  Lt. Dan is my favorite dynamic character. In the begging of the movie when Forrest is in Vietnam  Lt. Dan is a pretty nice guy until he gets his legs blown off. Then when there back in the hospital in nam and in New York  Lt. Dan  has some brake downs because he was suppose to die in the war also he has no legs so he's not happy about that. After New York when they get the shrimp boat and start making some money he becomes at peace with what happened to him. Then during Forrest's wedding he had prosthetics and was smiling and walking again with new appreciation of what he has in life. He wanted to die in the war like his ancestors but life is a box of chocolates you never know what your going to get.