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.
The narrator stepped forward many times to take responsibility for his life but each time his parents influence changed his actions. For example, the father was in need of help on "the boat" and the narrator stepped into help. When he knew this was not enough he decided he was to quite school and to fish full time with his father. The father then told him he would "go back tomorrow." (Page 272) He returned to school the following morning.
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.
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
White’s essay, “Once More to the Lake”, White comes to realize his own mortality through a visit to the lake, a setting of both White’s past and present. While White initially perceives the lake as unchanged on the surface, he realizes a significant difference – he himself has changed. Through vivid details of the lake, White conveys his realization that time causes change inevitably. Using imagery depicting movement, White presents his initial perception of an unchanging lake. When White takes his son fishing, he enters an illusion that convinces him he is his childhood self: “ I lowered the tip of mine into the water, tentatively, pensively dislodging the fly, which darted two feet away, poised, darted two feet back, and came to rest again a little farther up the rod.
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.
For example, when it was time for my brother to learn how to swim, my dad just stop in a deep part of a lake and threw him in. After school let out in May, my brother and I left to stay with my grandpa and grandma over the summer. My grandpa is retired and has a lot of time on his hands. On the other had my grandma is a hard worker at home and her job, my grandpa love games with me and my brother. I learned how to ride a bike that summer the hard way.
Desperate to make his father proud Chris dropped everything to move back home to Michigan. He restablished the reputation and cliental of Crownline Glass and turned it into the most successful glasss distributors in the country. Christophers father despite coming back to work, was reluctant of the changes chris made and didn’t seem proud of his son. Chris took some time off to find his only love in life, Nicole. Even though she was engaged the reuniting of them was
He had been so busy having fun he completely forgot to apply the sunscreen his mother had packed for him in his bag. By the 3rd day of camp, Bobby noticed his skin was turning red, and very painful to the touch. He had also been sweating quite a bit more than normal, and he was very tired. This was not normal for Bobby who was normally full of energy, and although his skin hurt, he was determined not to let it ruin his fun. On the fourth day, he and the other children were out for a canoeing excursion on the lake, and one of the kids in his canoe jokingly began