It is not clearly stated in the essay that White’s father has passed away, but one can infer that he is not able to make this trip to the lake. For example, the author says, “As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death.” Since the trip to the lake, the author has experienced these moments of being his father and not himself. When going to the farmhouse, the author talks about how the three-track road is now a two-track road. White also says, “For a moment I missed terribly the third alternative.” In my opinion, the third alternative, his father is what he missed. He and his son are the only two tracks remaining.
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
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.
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.
Lily was excited for her new sweater, and Jonas was ready for his assignment. It starts off with The Murmur of Replacement Ceremony, the ceremony consist of the replacement of a family unit’s child that “lost” the year before. It stated that it was an accident that Caleb the family’s child wandered off and drowned in the river. Never did it say he died or anything about death, just as a accident or “lost”. Which shows how little the community knows about death.
Later in the book, Con has flashbacks to his dark moments. One of them is the moment of his brother drowning: Unforgivable. It is unforgivable. They wrestle with the boat together, the sails snapping like a rifle cracks in the wind “Get it down! Get the goddamn sail down!” (pg.
Chelsea, Ethel and Norman’s daughter, brings her new boyfriend, Billy Ray, and his son, Billy Ray Jr., to the cottage on golden pond to visit. Chelsea asks Ethel if it was okay to leave Billy Jr. with her and Norman for a month while Billy Ray and her go on vacation alone. Ethel and Norman agree to watch him while they are gone. Norman isn’t to happy about watch him, but he grows to like him a lot and they become really good friends. Once Chelsea comes back she tells everyone that her and Billy got married.
He abuses Huck verbally as well as physically and soon shows that he is a brutal drunkard. After his father keeps him locked inside a cabin in the woods, Huck decides to escape and uses a pig’s blood to fake his own death. This act indicates that Huck’s moral development is still at its beginning and that he doesn’t care about the emotions of other people. This attitude will change later when he plays a trick on Jim on the river. But for now, while he is carrying out his plan, he doesn’t even think about what all his friends and family will go through when they hear about his death.
Interpreting Literature: The Grace That Keeps This World The Grace That Keeps This World, by Tom Bailey, is an enthralling novel about the Hazen family who lived in Lost Lake their entire lives. In this novel Kevin Hazen, a young nineteen year old, is portrayed as a college student that is rebellious of his father’s way of living. He wants more for his life than a life of survival, that his parents have lived their whole lives. Bailey incorporates a popular Greek tale, the story of a tragic hero written by Greek poet Homer, The Odyssey. Kevin needs to find his place in life, in the world and in his own family; and in finding this he will find his way home.
Daisy needed someone who was down to earth and had everything planned out. Unfortunately that was not Gatsby. For five years Gatsby lived across the lake from Daisy dreaming of the days when they were in love. The green light on her dock that he stared at every night shows how he longed to live in the past. He tells Nick, "'Can’t repeat the past…Why of course you can!’”(110).