![]() ![]() Especially one when I decided to go to Poland to visit my family. "Once More to the Lake" written by Elwyn Brooks White is a wonderful recollection of summer times spent with his family, and especially with his father at the lake in Maine.Īlso I have some remembrances from my past that are very similar to these described by White and still fresh in my memory. It echoes the first paragraph because he talks about how his dad and him used to go to the lake, and now it is the same scenario, just with him as the father figure.There are a few remembrances in our life like that at a lake in Maine that attract us and refresh our memory even though that happened a long time ago.By appealing to all of the senses, White is able to bring in the reader, making them feel like a part of the lake, as if they were almost there. The descriptions of sight, touch, smell, taste, and sound help White greatly in his route to bringing in the readers.The images he portrayed were also those that represented the fact that the lake hasn’t changed, such as the boat, the fishing, and even the dragonflies. White repeated the idea that the lake has been the same throughout the years, talking about specific similarities throughout his text, as well as seeing himself through his son.Lastly, he talks about how the waitresses have changed their hairstyles, making them seem more modern and much different from what White remembered. This makes him feel disconnected from the lake, since it has changed so much. ![]() ![]() He also talked about how the road to the farmhouse has changed, having only two tracks rather than three. The boats have changed since he was last at the lake greatly, becoming more modern, more frequently seen, and also louder. The specific changes he states in his essay include when he talks about how the boats have changed, the road to the farmhouse has changed, and also the waitresses have changed.This essay would appeal mostly to adults with kids, since most adults could relate to seeing glimpses of themselves in their children.No, the ending doesn’t surprise the audience, because White constantly implies to the reader that he is seeing himself in his son, so at the end when he talks about how he feels his son jumping into the water, the reader understands.The idea of his thesis is how he is so similar to his son and he sees it constantly throughout their time at the lake. He has an implied thesis that he refers to throughout his text.He is referring to how much he sees himself through his son, and when he watched his son doing the same exact things that he did at the lake, he almost felt as if he was the one doing them.Sound made White come back to reality because it made him realize the fact that years have gone by since he had last been at the lake, so even though the lake may look exactly the same, it is much different.White felt disconcerted when he discovered the road to the farmhouse had two tracks rather than three because he didn’t like the fact that the farmhouse had changed, and when it changed he lost some of the feeling connection towards the whole place.When White stated that he felt like no years had gone by at the lake, he meant to display this sort of idea that while everything else around the world has been changing through the years, the lake has consistently been the same.When white said, “I seemed to be living a dual existence” he was referring to how he saw himself in his son and how he saw the similarities they shared. The difference, however, was that White took in the surrounding beauty of the lake much more than his son did. White and his son are similar because they both portrayed curiosity when it came to the lake and had interest in the surroundings of the area. ![]()
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