Resolution
After Jerry returned to his villa, his mom asked him if he had done anything exciting, and he replies that he hadn't done anything of importance. He says this because while he was laying down waiting for his mother to come home, he decided that going through the tunnel had been a dumb idea and had no reason to go through a second time ever again.
Doris Lessing was born in Iran on October 22, 1919. While she was young, her family moved to Rhodesia, where she dropped out of school at 13 and escaped reality by reading and writing.