Challenges are a major part in everybody's life. You have two choices, take the cowards way out and quit, or you can take it by the horns and do what you have to do to overcome. In both "Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing and "The Utterly Perfect Murder" by Ray Bradbury, Doug and Jerry were presented with a challenge and had to overcome. In the short story "Through the Tunnel" Jerry was challenged with trying to make it through an underground tunnel. He felt he needed to accomplish this because he had seen a couple of boys made it...
you need to forget what people have done to you in the past, and move on to bigger and better things. Both stories presented moments in each of the characters lives, when they doubted their abilities to see a task through. Both Doug from the "The Utterly Perfect Murder" by Ray Bradbury and Jerry, From "Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing demonstrated the theme of challenge in many ways. When we decide to act and face our fears, we gain confidence in our abilities, we like ourselves more because we see ourselves stronger and victorious over our challenges.