"Once More to The Lake" In E.B. White's, "Once More To The Lake" he writes about a father that takes his son to a lake in Maine as a vacation spot. The story tells about the father and how he used to stay at the lake with his family for a month, as a young boy. As the father takes his son to the lake he sees certain things, areas, that he remembers seeing as a young boy, and being there made him feel like he was a young boy again, seeing as not much had changed at the lake over the years. Throughout the story the father has a lot of flashbacks, and his memory's come to life within his son.
Essay 1 Changes That Time Brings In E.B. White’s essay “Once more to the Lake,” White describes his cherished childhood memories of his summertime vacation at the lake. With familiar sounds, smells, and sights, White is transported back in time, but in his reflections of himself while watching his son; he realizes the changes that time brings. He ultimately recognizes that both technology and urban life brought changes such as, there were no longer three set of tracks to choose from to walk on, the arrival to the lake was less exciting, and the sound of the place had changed with the annoying sound of the outboard motors. The first change that White reflected upon was the tracks he walked when he was young.
The Evolution Of Life “Once More To The Lake,” by E.B. White, is an essay speaking on the natural rhythm of life. A father and son take a vacation to a lake in Maine; on this trip the father truly realizes the evolution of life happening with-in his family. While the father and son fish on the lake the father begins to remember the times he spent fishing with his father, he begins to see him in his son, he sees his son morphing into him. He then also realizes that if his son is becoming him and he is becoming his father and everyone is evolving into his or her older role model.
In the second paragraph, the author started to wonder “the tarred road would have found it out”. Turn to look the forth paragraph, he said “I was right about the tar: if led to within half a mile of the shore.”, which seems to make him somewhat upset. Then he realized the lake was almost the same as before. We could perceive the delight in his heart by the three words “I knew it”, and the following long poetic sentence described his old memory. In the seventh paragraph, even the changed of track road bothered him.
The silence is wide as the sky". (P59) Rayona feels gleeful and peaceful on this raft, but the calmness is shattered by Father Tom's arrival. After jumping into the water, he developed a cramp and Rayona saves him, she pulls him onto the raft, and they lay close. "We are the same size, from toe to head. He presses, presses, presses and the air leaves my lungs.
KMJ March 22, 2004 EC1 Descriptive Essay “The Lake” A psychiatric joke, “go to your happy place,” and my weary mind always retreats down the same worn path that once led to the two-room cabin that my grandfather built at Wilson Lake. Hundreds of acres of old, tall trees, standing sentry and guarding the secret beauty of the deep and serene cedar water lake. Where, once the last flag had been lowered at sundown on Memorial Day, families in their station wagons would begin to bounce along the dirt roads of the old camp ground, settling in for the summer in this beautiful mossy place. The moist ground beneath the beds of fallen leaves awakens with rusty metal rakes, pulling back the heavy blankets of mother nature’s bounty. Thick black smoke from metal cans and fire pits fills the air, and yet while your nose becomes stuffy, the smell of the burning leaves is more than oddly comforting.
The story begins with two people, alone on a quiet afternoon, fishing in a lake. After discovering each other's true personalities and the clashes that ensue from their differences, "The End of Something" fatefully ends with the final separation of Nick and Marjorie. In the opening paragraph, we can almost smell the lumber. Vivid imagery cascades through the senses - the smell of moist pine and damp spring air. However, the descriptions of scenery are added in by Hemingway to suggest detriment in the future of our two lovers, Nick and Marjorie.
Conservation It’s a warm summer day, I’m out river rafting with my family. When suddenly I see a big piece of garbage floating down beside us. My father picks it up and puts it in the boat. I think to myself, what will the Skeena watershed look like in 50 years if this continues?? The Skeena River located in B.C Canada is one of few clean watersheds.
By adding sensory images into his writing, bringing the essay to life; allowing the readers to feel like they are at the time, place and feel the emotions he felt. An example of the use of sensory images in Once More to the Lake is, “ I remembered being very careful never to rub my paddle against the gunwale for fear of disturbing the stillness of the cathedral.” The use of sensory image in this sentence allows for the readers to feel the stillness and peacefulness he feels when he’s at the lake. In Death of a Pig, “In the upset position the corners of his mouth had been turned down, giving him a frowning expression which was shaded by their coy little lashes, turned on me in disgust and hatred.” This sentence shows the use of personification and sensory images by adding human like characteristics to the pig, thus making the readers connect more to the story and feel sympathy for it. All in all, through the use of sensory
Sarah Evans AP Language Moments of Being, Virginia Woolf In the text “Moments of Being”, by Virginia Woolf, the author explains the daily happening of fishing with her father and brother, and the impact it has had on her adult life. She compares the fishing trips to the occasional nightly walks in the streets of London, England, as being far better. The text is set in the time of Woolf’s life, 1882 to 1941. The strategies that she uses in the text to convey the significance of these childhood memories are well thought out and well worded. In the first section of the text, she explains a story in which her brother had the chance of bringing the boat back to shore, and his father’s approval of the job.