Summary Of Once More To The Lake By E. B White

In E.B. White’s essay “Once More to the Lake,” he describes spending time with his son at a lake in Maine that he visited as a child. One month every summer he would vacation at this lake with his father. White had dreamt about bringing his son to the lake one day. Upon White’s return to this fabled lake, he realizes it’s not the same lake he visited as a child. He finds that the modern world has made its mark on the lake. To White, what developers in the area call progress he sees as destructive and has impacted the lake negatively. White’s use of figurative language allows him to show to the reader what he felt and how he viewed the changes sprouting up around him. To some, change is viewed as progress while to others it can be devastating and destructive.

E. B. White's story "Once More to the Lake" is about a man who revisits a lake from his childhood to discover that his life has lost placidity.  The man remembers his childhood as he remembers the lake; peaceful and still.  Spending time at the lake as an adult has made the man realize that his life has become unsettling and restless, like the tides of the ocean.  Having brought his son to this place of the past with him, the man makes inevitable comparisons between his own son and his childhood self, and between himself as an adult and the way he remembers his father from his childhood perspective.  The man's experience at the lake with his son is the moment he discovers his own

White writes, “there had been no years between the ducking of this dragonfly and the other one – the one that was part of memory. I looked at the boy, who was silently watching his fly, and it was my hands that held his rod, my eyes watching” (30). White has a flashback during this present scene, which demonstrates that nothing has changed, and visions his past, from a perspective view of the boy. White also discusses: “This seemed an utterly enchanted sea, this lake you could leave to its own devices for a few hours and come back to, and find that it had not stirred, this constant and trustworthy body of water” (31). This sentence clearly clarifies no changes were developed within the lake when it was left

“Once More to the Lake” is an essay written by E.B. White. After revisiting a childhood vacation spot with his son, White witnesses his son complete the generational cycle thus making him realize his own mortality. While on this vacation White sees himself as his father and his son through seeing his son have similar experiences at the lake. White takes notice of the changes that have occurred at the lake overtime.

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.

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He also finds that the paths that he remembers walking along as a child now have two lanes instead of three. White remarks on how much he "[misses] terribly the middle alternative." White is most upset, though, about the new "sound of the place." Instead of the soft, relaxing boat noises that he recalls from his childhood, the air is polluted by the "nervous sound of the outboard motors." As we will come to find out later in the story, White is not disturbed as much by the aspects of that lake that have changed, but more so by the parts of himself that are different.

An example from the novel “Night” is when Eliezer’s view of his father changed. By the end of the story, Eliezer became selfish because he did not want to care for his father anymore. He felt his father was holding him back and was decreasing the chance of his survival. Another example was at the beginning of the novel when Eliezer was a kind and caring child who only wanted to learn more about God. However, after the adversities Eliezer went through, he changed into a person that even he could not recognize.

When we first meet the narrator and his two friends, we learn that “[they] wore torn-up leather jackets, slouched around with toothpicks in [their] mouths, sniffed glue and ether and what somebody claimed was cocaine” (129). This is an example of the rebellious things he does in order to keep up his bad character image. He goes to the lake because that is where all the bad people hang out to “watch a girl take her clothes off and plunge into the festering murk, drink beer, [and] smoke pot” (129). The lake itself represents how rotten today’s adolescents have become, so that is why the lake is the center of it all. His fight with the man he describes as a greasy character shows how he tries to go along with his façade, but fails miserably when he gets kicked under the chin, until he knocks him out with the tire iron. Just when he thinks it’s all over, a

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Eiseley beautifully presents the time by making reader feel themselves as a character. He shows the time keeps on changing which has been reflected through urbanization. He means that with the flow of time everybody gets old and dies by giving an example of the wasp and the old man. Similarly, White also supports the same attitude after he saw the same lake. He realized that time has been passed when he feels transposition to son and his father who is dead now. Then he felt the irony of life. Both believe that the time keeps on moving by leaving memory and the place where we are.

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