Miami Dade College
ENC 1101- Professor M. Plata
Chapter 7: Description
C.W. # 3-Once More to the Lake (Worth 30 points)
Due by 11:59 pm on Friday, September 22
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Directions: After reading the descriptive essay Once More to the Lake, answer the five questions below as
specifically as possible using details from the story.
Each question is worth 6 points, so please answer in
specific detail.
1.
How are the writer and his son alike? How are they different? What does White mean when he says,
"I seemed to be living a dual existence" (4)?
2.
In paragraph 5, White says that "no years" seemed to have gone by between past and present;
elsewhere, he senses that things are different. How do you account for these conflicting feelings?
3.
Why does White feel disconcerted when he discovers that the road to the farmhouse has two tracks,
not three? What do you make of his comment that "now the choice was narrowed down to two" (7)?
4.
How does sound "break the illusion and set the years moving" (10)?
5.
What is White referring to in the essay's last sentence?
