Once More to the Lake
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White, E.B. “Once More to the Lake.” The Norton Reader. 13th ed. Linda Peterson et al. New York: W.W. Norton and Company 2012. 79-83. Print. In E.B. Whites essay “Once more to the Lake”, E.B. White writes of childhood memory going to the lake camping with his father as a young boy and now taking his own son to the lake. Most of the essay is very descriptive detail of memories camping at the lake as a child and White conflicting growing older as he makes new memories with his son during their camping trip. The essay suggest the memories as he remembers as a child were in much greater detail and seemed a better time than now as an adult. White writes of the feeling of taken on the role as his father and sees his son as himself at the same time and describes in fashion this feeling when the dragonfly lands on his fishing pole. He describes relived memories of the lake in great detail drawing the reader in and making the lake they are camping on seem very real. White writes of not being able to take a pathway that use to be there as a child and for me it seems in retrospect that we all have a path that we take in life and not all of us can take the same one thus White realizes in that moment his path of childhood is never forgotten but now over. In conclusion, White conflicts with himself growing older during this trip now as an adult and experienced many moments during that time as just another memory in
White, E.B. “Once More to the Lake.” The Norton Reader. 13th ed. Linda Peterson et al. New York: W.W. Norton and Company 2012. 79-83. Print. In E.B. Whites essay “Once more to the Lake”, E.B. White writes of childhood memory going to the lake camping with his father as a young boy and now taking his own son to the lake. Most of the essay is very descriptive detail of memories camping at the lake as a child and White conflicting growing older as he makes new memories with his son during their camping trip. The essay suggest the memories as he remembers as a child were in much greater detail and seemed a better time than now as an adult. White writes of the feeling of taken on the role as his father and sees his son as himself at the same time and describes in fashion this feeling when the dragonfly lands on his fishing pole. He describes relived memories of the lake in great detail drawing the reader in and making the lake they are camping on seem very real. White writes of not being able to take a pathway that use to be there as a child and for me it seems in retrospect that we all have a path that we take in life and not all of us can take the same one thus White realizes in that moment his path of childhood is never forgotten but now over. In conclusion, White conflicts with himself growing older during this trip now as an adult and experienced many moments during that time as just another memory in