He believes that it is still the same as it was when he and his father were there. He also feels like he is his father, bringing his son to the lake. He begins his story by telling us the first time he and his family go to the lake in Maine. He describes to us incidents that happened and how the trip became a family tradition. Then, as he grows up, he starts to move away from going to the lake.
The three important people in the essay “Once More to the Lake,” by E.B. White are the author, his son, and his father, and they represent a bond between his son and his father, the author as a child, and death respectively. First, White represents a bond between his son and his father. In the essay, the author recalls his time at the lake stating, “this feeling got so strong I bought myself a couple of bass hooks and a spinner and returned to the lake where we used to go, for a week’s fishing and to revisit
Accepting mortality as an inevitable part of life is an obstacle that every must undertake at some time in his or her life. Author E.B. White encounters such a struggle in his essay “Once More to the Lake”, in which he recalls taking his son to a lake retreat in Maine that his father took him to every first week of August in his youth. During the trip, White sees the lake through his son’s eyes but notices variations in the environment as a result of time. He begins to feel more like his father as he watches his son, but has trouble accepting that he, just like the lake, is changing and aging as time passes on.
Sylvia Holik Wiggins ENGL 1101 31 January 2012 One More to the Lake I agree with E.B White in his essay “Once More To The Lake” that “everything was as it always had been”. Starting with the lake itself, the water and its waves, the green grass and boat, the farms and their farmhouses, and the way it all look have not changed to White. Second would be the things his son would love to do once he is at the lake, for example, going fishing, boating, swimming, and just getting up early to enjoy being at this getaway spot. And third, the feeling of being a kid again every time White returns, which is also the reason he would come back year after year. All of this is why everything to White has not changed and will never change.
White appreciated the fact that he; his self got older. Because of everlasting change and the boundaries imposed by time, White could never go back to his youth. He was permanently altered along with the middle track he favored so much missing, the indirect influence on the waitresses' hair, and the louder noise from the outboard motors. Elwyn Brooks White’s "Once More to the Lake," illustrates that locations gone to in the early stages of life will be there for many years to come, maybe forever. However, they will also forever be just a memory of fun times and moments of pure
He can be a scholar; however, he just found out he like farming, too. Even before the party, Daniel’s curiosity about Kate’s family helped Kate to recall the past memories and made the path clearer. Kate had a difficult time thinking about the relationship with Matt and the words from Marie and Daniel in Simon’s birthday party; however, in the end, she understood Matt’s feeling and they went back to the ponds together – the estrangement between
Stewart wakes the morning after and instead of worrying, he goes fishing and the others soon join in, it isn’t until the next day that they head back and report the body. The surroundings influenced Stewart getting him to not worry or stress about the pressures he would normal feel back in Jindabyne. Jindabyne is a town of beauty, the glasslike lake, the vast, expansive plains and the lush, shadowy forests surrounding it. But just like Claire and Stewart we take in so much from our environment that influences how we behave and how we feel. Just think, if you went to a different school or dropped out of school all together you would be a different
Molly Curcio November 13, 2011 Comparative Thesis Paper In both Deborah Tannen’s “Different Words, Different Worlds, and Anna Quindlen’s Between the Sexes, A Great Divide” an explanation is given about the differences between women and men. Both authors share some common themes. However, there are definitely major differences. Quindlen’s piece is not only significantly shorter but her writing style, examples, and opinions are a bit different. Tannen’s writing is lengthy, personal, analytical and well sourced.
Derrick Gunn Philyaw English II Honors-Period 4 29 May 2014 Happy Families, by Tanita S. Davis-Second Reflection At this point in the book Ysabel and Justin are half way done with their trip. They discover that they will be having frequent visits to the family therapist the whole spring break. Her name is Dr. Hoeing. After one visit to Dr. Hoeing’s, they go on a camping/rafting experience with their father. This helps the two meet and befriend kids in the same predicament.
White is an essay in which a father revisits a lake with his son that he once visited in his childhood years. The father remembers how so many of the details from his past that he now experiences with his son are the same as those he experienced with his father many years ago. The father looks back at those years and tries to relive the moments through his son's eyes. He knows he cannot, and has difficulty dealing with the fact that he can't go back in time. At the end of the story the father remembers that time has moved forward and like his father he will soon become just another