Literary Analysis Of Annihilated Time

The short story, Once More to the Lake, is about a father who takes his son on a camping trip to a lake in Maine. The father sees that the camp is exactly how he remembers it as he goes through time of reminiscence. As he goes back to nostalgic memories, he sees, through his son, that the camp is the same as when he was a child; however, his time at the camp reveals the true meaning of what time is. Time is a continuing process of the past, present, and future.

When the Clock Strikes Throughout the years many stories have been passed down from generation to generation. One of the stories that has evolved over the years is the fairy tale of Cinderella. It is one of the most popular fairy tales to date because it has seen in over 700 versions and translated into multiple languages. Tanith Lee, a prolific writer of stories for young adults, took the Cinderella story, and reversed it with her tale When the Clock Strikes. In her tale, the Cinderella heroine character is a witch. Lee is able to turn the magic and the rest of the tale into a dark revenge story. Madonna Kolbenschlag, a literary scholar and feminist, wrote the article A Feminists View of Cinderella. Karol Kelley, a feminist and professor of history at Texas Tech, also wrote an article, Pretty Woman A Modern Cinderella, which shares some feminist views of the story. Both Kolbenschlag and Kelley have viewpoints that would explain why Lees story is more or less feminist. Both Kolbenschlags and Kelleys viewpoint on feminism would make Lees story ,When the Clock Strikes, seem to be feminist because the main character Ashella is active, aggressive, and powerful throughout the entire story, but since revenge is the main goal in Ashellas actions, they would think this contradicts feminist ideas. Throughout Lees tale, Ashella and her mother are very aggressive, unlike Cinderellas attitude in many other works. Kolbenschlag points out that a character who holds the qualities of a

First and foremost, authors E.B. White and Billy Collins both use exceptional repetition to portray the themes of their writings “Once More to the Lake” and “Forgetfulness”. In the essay “Once More to the Lake,” the main character expressed his connection to the lake from a young age. Later in life he brings his son and begins to be at a loss for his identity while being at the lake. Similar in theme, the poem “Forgetfulness” is a tale describing the loss of parts of one’s life that used to be known, much like identity loss. Repetition is a major key in both texts for pushing the theme of identity loss. During “Once More to the Lake,” E.B White experienced many moments that

Have you ever felt like time was running past you? That the world kept spinning while you just stood still? Time is a central theme in many of Kenneth Slessor’s poems, however it is primarily explored through ‘Out of time’ and ‘Five Bells’. Slessor has made it obvious that he is aware that time continues whether we want it to or not and this is what allows us to put into perspective the notion of humanity’s dominance.

He creates a themes based on the perception of time and reminiscing on good times. He misses the time he had in high school on those friday nights. People often reminisce on memories in their past and realize that those beloved moments are long gone. This is put on display when Updike ends his story with “Girls walk by me carrying their invisible bouquets from fields still steeped in grace, and i look up in the manner of one who follows with his eye the passage of a hearse, and remembers what pierces him”(125). The “invisible bouquets” are his recollection of their fragrance wrapped in front of their arms(125). He then provides the metaphor of watching those thoughts disappearing like the passage of a hearse. His memories are dead and pass by him in the back of a hearse. Everyone experiences these same moments of reminisce. However, time seems to move in slow motion as he recalls his teenage years, a span of moments that appear to be endless. “Now, tuning the corner into adulthood, we found time to be instead a black immensity endlessly supplied, like the wind”(Updike 124). This is how the Narrator describes time as a fifteen year

E.B. White’s essay “Once More To The Lake” describes the author’s memories of childhood vacations at a lake in Maine. In this essay White recalls a later trip to the lake with his son. In the week they are there they go swimming, fishing, canoeing and they take their meals from a farmhouse. The essay has several prominent themes: role reversal, change in technology, and the importance of human memory. By the end of this essay, White comes to an understanding of his own mortality.

Employing contradictory imagery and ideas, Heller delves into the contorted facets of Dunbar’s character, defining him through his comparisons of contradictory and seemingly ludicrous ideas. To love something because one hates every minute of it is certainly peculiar, but by illuminating the thought behind Dunbar’s oxymoronic feelings toward skeet-shooting, Heller is able to reveal the intricate logic lying just beneath the seeming insanity of his thoughts. The passage of time has long flummoxed even the greatest of philosophers: hours drag on, but years disappear in the blink of an eye. Even so, Dunbar looks to have unveiled the mysterious inner workings of time, condensing it into a precise science with which he precisely regulates the speed

Vonnegut expertly used tone, diction, and sentence structure to convey that time is repetitive and injurious. He used intricate chronology and the development of Billy Pilgrim to show that time is unforgiving and treacherous. But despite this, Billy’s tale ends on a positive note. The war is over; he can go home. The sky is still blue and the birds are singing once more. It can be seen that not only for Billy, but for the human race, time is ticking and being wasted, but people can still cherish the moments they have. They can still revel in the glory of a blue cape and boots of silver. It is because humans are fickle. Time is fickle. Time is not a constraint to anyone as much as it is an encouragement to spend it

He uses this strategy to explore the notion of time by not discussing something that has actually occurred, but simply living in the present and visualizing--foreseeing the future-- all because of what he sees right in front of him. The young girl wearing high-heels and wearing makeup makes her appear as a grown woman; therefore, he visualizes her as a grown woman. By looking into the future, White views time as an interval in which change occurs. Even though, in reality it has not been twenty five years into the future, within just a few weeks, there was a change in the girls’ appearance. The change in her appearance made White get the impression that “it has been so long since he’s been here” or “a lot has changed over the past few weeks”. In “Once More to the Lake,” White’s father rents a camp on a lake in Maine, where “none of them ever thought there was a place in the world like it” (1). He still remembers “returning summer after summer—always on August 1st for one month” (White, Once More to the Lake 1). He decides to take along his son along. One thing he does not remember are the tarred roads which, when returning, he noticed “the tar; it led to within half a mile of the shore…and that beyond any doubt that everything was as it always had been, the years were a mirage”(White, Once More to the Lake 1-2). White makes the man appear as a different character in

The short story “Time flies” written by Art Spiegelman convey the story of a writer under the pressure of guilt. The writer is a mouse that the author has symbolize as a rodent survivor of the holocaust. The rodent writer is in a setting that appears normal, but cut to the next scene the writer is writing his next work on top of dead rodent bodies. The writer is sitting quit calm over the dead bodies while he writes his next best work. This is important to know because the setting of this scene explains why the writer feels undeniable guilt about what he is doing.

Reflecting back on my years at Homer High School, I have been struck more than anything by the oddity of time. Isn’t it strange how the moments of our lives slide rapidly away into the shadows of the past? It seems like just yesterday that I struggled to open my locker in the Freshman Hallway for the first time, but it was today that I struggled to close it indefinitely. Albert Einstein said that time

"Once More to the Lake" written in 1941, E.B. White. His essay is easily readable, and his diction is simplistic. His descriptions and imagery include White 's past and present memories. The narration is first person through the eyes and voice of the author. On the other hand, White 's theme is more illusive. This retrospection allows the reader to slip behind the wall of time and memories to watch a son and father enjoy the America dream, a vacation.Reflecting on childhood memories, the author recalls a trip back to the place where he had spent summer vacations with his parents and siblings. This event, both pleasurable and melancholy, challenges White to look back at his relationship with his own father. Now that he has returned, White realizes that some things do not vary, and other things a person cannot stop from changing. He and his son stay in the same cabin near the same dock on the same lake as White had done in his childhood. Over and again, the author comments that "there has been no years gone by." Apparently, he felt that he had traveled back in time; and though several decades had passed, everything was the same. Often,

“Don’t Judge a Book by its cover” the famous metaphorical phrase of all time is heard by many but followed by few. The novel A Tale For Time Being, written by Ruth Ozeki serves something similar. On the outside when one reads it, they are likely to think that it is all about death. The book revolves around a sixteen year old girl Naoko Yasutani who plans to express her feelings in her diary. Nao as she is called, plans to commit suicide but before killing herself she wants to dedicate the diary to tell information about her 104 year old great grandmother, and a Buddhist nun named Jiko. Instead of writing about Jiko, Nao writes about the bullying, suicide attempts her father committed. Years later, on the other side, a Hello Kitty lunchbox and

Significant experiences, whether physical, mental, or emotional, have remarkable consequences on a person. Sometimes they may result in negative consequences, like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), that only decrease the quality of life of an individual. In many other cases, though, when recovery has been successful, many people give back to the community in order to help others with similar experiences. As I read Part 3: In Search of Lost Time, Susannah Cahalan’s recovery depended very much on the experiences of everyone who helped her such as family, friends, doctors, and even strangers. Susannah’s slowly, but surely returned as an improved version of past self. Though it was clear to Susannah she had lost parts of her, she also realized

The passage of time is something humans can not control, yet time still goes on. Sometimes, people live in the past, or sometimes people can forget the past, but time touches everyone. People also go through loss. Whether it be loss of a person, tradition or perhaps even memory. Both texts, “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins and “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White both deal with the themes of the passing of time and loss. Through their writing, these two authors show their meanings of these themes.