To Hurston the lake is a magical place. In the story "Once More To The Lake" by E.B. White, Hurston really shows the love he has had for the lake since he was a young boy. While his son and him visit the lake he startes remebering all the good times he had with his father. He sees himself in his son and starts feeling like his father.
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 finds it challenging to have lost his father as the motif of “the boat” is used to emphasize the loss of his father. He feels that “no boat rides restlessly in the waters” generating an idea that you won’t be happy throughout your whole life because he has lost his happiness since the day he lost his dad. His memories of his father are remembered as “gigantic” and “being elevated”. But to him they are “only shadows and echoes” of his past. The “earliest recollection” of the father is filled with imagery such as “stubble of his cheek” and “ sound …boots galumphing along”.
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
Vanessa Benedetto The Boat The short story, “The Boat,” by Alistair MacLeod is written in first person. MacLeod writes about the life in Cape Breton from a boy’s point of view. The man remembers his childhood with his family on the wharf. From the way the man tells the story he gives the reader the impression that as a child he had a strong relationship with his father, and admired his selfless, hardworking actions. Clearly his father had more of an impact on his life because he talks more about his father.
There is nothing in life that is more everlasting than change. As described in Elwyn Brooks White’s "Once More to the Lake," change is at the very center of our being. During the years in between White’s visits to the lake, we can see a change not only in people’s age, but their surroundings as well. In 1941, after a tense emotion to revisit old haunts and an inner need for the placidity of the lake, White takes his son fishing in the very same Maine waters, as he did with his father in 1904. Only what White remembered had changed forever.
When Kane dies he utters the word “rosebud”. We are never told directly what he meant by it, but at the end we see his sled from his childhood that has that same word on it. I believe that rosebud and that sled was a symbol of Kane’s childhood, and his happiness. Kane was happy as a child, when things were care-free and great. He was playing on that very sled when the men took him away to begin his training and education.
Inkshed #8 - The Boat Alistair MacLeod’s short story “The Boat” is a coming of age account in which the narrator tells of a period in his life when he must choose between what he desires and what his family deems is important. The narrator delves into his relationships with his mother, tradition, and most importantly his father. His family lives in a small Nova Scotia fishing community where his father owns and operates his own fishing boat and his mother stays at home to take care of the seven children. The relationship between his mother and father is conflicted and it is obvious that they do not hold the same views. The narrator is forced to choose between finishing high school and helping his father out on his boat.
Reviewing Peter’s account of Jesus or that of the Rich Young Ruler, a person is able to see that this was far from the truth. Bill Hybels, the Senior Pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, preached about the Peter making one of the most important statements of his life. In Luke 5:5 Peter decision to say “yes” to Jesus with this statement opened the door for endless opportunity, fame, inspiration, hardships, and salvation of his own life and the salvation of others. Peter has been fishing all night and then Jesus comes into the scene. Jesus borrows Peter’s boat so that he can teach from the lake then he asks him to get his nets after a long unsuccessful fishing day, to throw his nets out to the water and try to catch some fish again.
In the first film, Stewart, Claire and their son love each other so much. Stewart kisses his wife and wants his son to do that too before they go fishing . Stewart and his son sit on the ground beside a beautiful lake and Stewart teaches his son how to fish very carefully. This scene filmed with eye-level shot presents how Stewart and his son become fond of each other and the peaceful view of the landscape. Claire loves her son, too.When Claire is swimming, a man comes and talks to her son.