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.
White talks about the experience as a child camp out with his father in 1904 on the lake in Maine. During this White gets the great state of mind that he one time had as a child camp out and determined to release them again. “I took along my son, who had never had any fresh water up his nose who had seen lily pads only from train windows” (White 724). White is now a father and has a child and he decided to take his son to the lake as his father did to him. He keeps reminding the memories that he shared with father, and since he cannot go back to his childhood he teaching his son to follow the same path as he did.
(Page 272) He returned to school the following morning. His fathers disapproved of him dropping out; the fathers influence on the son was enough to make him change his decision. The mother was not pleased but this and could not believe her own son would "choose useless books over the parents they gave him life." (Page 272) This lead to influencing the narrator to join his father on the boat when his uncle left his father in order to support his growing family. He told his father that he would "remain with him as long as he lived" and continue to fish with him.
Have you ever had a sibling that has picked on you or push you to the limit of no end? “The Scarlet Ibis” written by James Hurst shares the struggle of two brothers using flashback, conflict and symbolism. The short novel takes place in the narrator’s flashback of World War one and the struggles he faced with his mentally challenged little brother. His flashback reminds him how much he pushed his younger brother “Doodle” to walk and be like every other normal child. They spent every day down by Old Woman Swamp and helped him learn how to walk, then eventually build strength to swim.
Second, White mentions many of the things he would do at the lake as a child and so these are the things his son also loves to do. Everything he sees his son do makes it seem as if the son was he. A lot of the times White gets confused because he is not sure which shoes he’s in. For example, they go fishing and White says, “I felt dizzy and didn’t know which rod I was at the end of.” This reminds him of what he used to do at the lake
Overcoming the Perils of Canoe Lake Bobby was on his first trip to summer camp, and boy was he excited! He loved camp activities like hiking, fishing, and swimming, and lucky for him, his parents had chosen a summer camp at a well-known lake called Canoe Lake, where he would not only be able to swim, but also learn how to canoe. As his bus pulled up to the camp lodge, Bobby could barely contain himself as he waited for the other kids to exit the bus. Standing outside awaiting their arrival was a very friendly looking woman who then identified herself as the camp canoe instructor. She greeted each of them and then gathered them into a huddle to discuss camp rules.
I've never been fishing before let alone riding in a fishing boat. A couple of hours before the derby was to start my Uncle Deck was to going to teach me the fine "art" of fishing. The thought of hooking my own worm made me want to scream, just the feeling of the worms body sliding in and out of my fingers sent shivers down my spine. It was the most disgusting think I ever felt, but eventually I came over my fear and was able to hook the worm myself, just in time for the derby to start .Although I didn't catch the "big one" but the one I did catch was a twelve pound large mouth bass, it took me about forty-five minutes to finally reel it in. Uncle Deck surprised me before we left the cabin, he had the large-mouth bass I caught taxidermy and mounted on a wooden plaque for me, to this day it still hangs on the wall of my grandparents house.
The uses of selection of detail in the story suggests that this period of time is when things are changing. The fact that it’s the 15th summer for the boy and it’s the 8th time he’s been out with his father, shows that they have bonded and the boy is finally letting go. Being 15 for a young man is really pivotal for his development and he might steer away from his parents in the beginning. Then at the end of the excerpt, Bill and the son leave to go fishing without waking up the father, that would seem like nothing, but it is the fact that they didn’t awaken the father to let him know what was going on. This is the falling relationship between a son who always looked at his father as a role model but now wants someone knew to look at…simply because he feels as if there is something more this person could teach him.
After she agrees, he spends huge efforts for careful preparations for this first dates. Since it is a habit which he gets used to through his summer time, the boy also automatically sticks the rod with reel in the stern without thinking. The dating time comes; the main character comes and picks Sheila up. During the way to Dixford, Sheila keeps talking about herself and the styles. While she is talking, coincidentally a big bass is hooked by the boy’s rod.
Fishing Buddies Daniel Ashlock Composition 1-202 May 12, 2012 Joseph Longhany Bass fishing can be fun and profitable. I became friends with a guy who worked as an exterminator and repossess` cars on the side. He came to repossess my car, because I got a little behind on the payments. He asked me if there was anything I needed to get out of it. “Yeah” I replied with a little sarcasm in my voice.