The hitchhiker is actually twenty-four years old and claims to be named Alex and to come from South Dakota. Alex seems to be carrying a light load for someone planning to live off the land for a few months, as he says he will do in Denali National Park. As Alex elaborates on his plan, Gallien tries to make him change his mind. Gallien is certain that Alex is not prepared for life in the Alaskan outdoors. Gallien even offers to buy him some decent gear, but Alex refuses.
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
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.
He sees himself in his son and starts feeling like his father. His story shows how making memories is very important and how much those memories impact us. Even if most dont realize it- its what we pass on. Days before Hurston decided to go to the lake, he craved to go. While him and his son were on the trip he already imagined what the lake would look like.
White contrasts the sounds on the lake from his childhood with the present ones when mentioning a boating trip with his son: “In the old days the boats were powered by inboards “and when they were at a little distance, the noise they made was a sedative, an ingredient of summer sleep. . . But now the campers all had outboards and these made a petulant, irritable sound” (White), which displays his inability to accept the technological changes that come around with time, in places that felt very remote in his youth. As White walks down the wharf with his son, he mentions “I had trouble making out which was I, the one walking at my side, the one walking in my pants” (White), showing that although he wishes to relive the entire trip through his son, he is gaining a sense of awareness that he is an individual in a different position than in his past and his environment has also undergone change due to
Kelsey Horton Mr. evans A walk in the woods Chapter summaries Chapter 1 In chapter one, bill Bryson has just moved to new Hampshire and realizes that the AT is almost in his back yard, when he decides to hike it. The AT stretches from Georgia to Maine. He examines his reasons for doing this trail such as getting in shape and exploring the coastal beauty. He knows this is something much longer than anything that he has taken on before. So he enlist the help of his friend as they shop for camping supplies, bill is shocked at how expensive everything is.
For whatever reason, the father decides to visit his son for the first time in four months. It is decided that they go on a camping trip together; however, the ending is quite a riddle and it is not exactly clear what happens. There are a lot of metaphorical techniques to make your mind up on such as; ‘Two torches are for lighting a bigger space in the wilderness, for lighting it together. Two torches are for father and son to back each other up.’ This metaphor means that they both have something in common. It's making the relationship more
He sees his family, friends, his hometown and many others on the other side of the river at first cheering then he imagines them embarrassed for him. He imagines them saying, mean things about him being and coward and a letdown. O’Brien then starts to thing about jumping out the boat but instead stays there and starts to cry. The next day he says bye to the old man and leaves for home and is drafting. Is O’Brien a coward or does he have courage?
The “earliest recollection” of the father is filled with imagery such as “stubble of his cheek” and “ sound …boots galumphing along”. The lifestyle of his father still haunts the narrator still as he automatically wakes at four believing that he’s making his father wait, however he then realizes that his father is no longer there and he is “foolishly alone.” Salt is infused with the memory of the narrator’s father due to the amount of time he spent in the sea. The father “smelled of salt” and “tasted of salt.” The narrator placed his father on a pedestal and cannot deal with his
“At one point, I remember, we paused over a picture of Ted Lavender, and after a while Jimmy rubbed his eyes and said he’d never forgiven himself for Lavender’s death. It was something that would never go away, he said quietly, and I nodded and told him I felt the same about certain things” (Obrien 27). Another theme is fear of shame as motivation. Tim O’Brien experiences this himself when he is on the boat with Elroy. He decides to go to war because he is ashamed of running from it.