Steven Herrick’s work of “By the river” displays a bildungsroman novel in which harry goes on a journey through life, facing love and loss.…
In October and November I read a book called "Four Miles to Pinecone". I think it's a good book and I have to write an essay about it. In this essay I am going to tell you about the conflicts that the main character, Tom Barry, encountered and how he handled them.…
William Gibson has a quote which says "Time moves in one direction, memory in another". This quote is especially evident in "Once More to the Lake" by E.B White and "On Going Home" by Joan Didion. In both of these personal narratives, the authors struggle with the overwhelming sensation of yearning for the past. In an effort to conquer the nostalgic sensation, they both visit a place that is very dear to their hearts. However, as the authors soon figured out, nothing stays the same forever.…
In White’s essay, Once More to the Lake, he conveys his attitudes towards the week spent at the camp by giving concrete and specific languae. The personal and autobiographical source of the essay is authenticated by these methods. These fundamental ideas emerge as White compares his memories of the lake with his experience upon revisiting it with his son. The multiple points of comparison and the language he uses to describe them is, once again, concrete and specific.…
The story “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White I believe the author was convincing in expressing his thought and intuition when reliving his childhood memories in the beginning of the story White start to recount the smells of the cabin the scent of the bedroom filled with lumber from the wet woods on his first time being back the first morning the author recall similar things about how his dad was when he just a kid himself visiting the cabin and the excitement he experienced his family visited the cabin around the beginning of August that was the beginning of summer and big business itself were farmers were out and active the author also reflected back on how to drive the boat he explained in great detail the ambience of the cabin during…
In The Rock and the River, by Kekla Magoon, “all it takes for evil to exist is for good people to do nothing” is a prominent theme. An example of this is when Bucky had just been brutally beat and arrested by the police. The police did this in broad daylight in front of everyone including Maxie and Sam. “People on the street began going about their business again. The radio blasted, covering the silence of disbelief, of resignation.” (pg. 68). This quote demonstrates the theme because it shows that if the people watching the violence happen (aka the “good people”) do nothing, then the cop’s racism (aka the evil) would continue existing.…
In this chapter “On the Rainy River”, O’Brien was really difficult time to decided whether he go into war nor he will flee to Canada. This quotation is said where O’Brien decided to enter the war even he hated war a lot. He is afraid that his family, community, and others will be ashamed of him. He thinks of the pride he will lose if he flees to Canada. So this is the start of this book because the whole book depends on the war experience of O’Brien if he wasn’t decided to go war there will not be a book called “ The Thing They Carried”.…
When I was a little girl, my life was very much E. B. White’s story, “Once More to the Lake.” In White story, he describes the town as being always the same, even years later when he takes his own son there, “-the waitresses were the same country girls, there having been no passage of time” (White 203). Like White, my grandfather would always take us camping and for many, many years nothing changed about the lake in Kirby Landing. There were always the same pine trees that needed to be cut the year before still there. At the end of the camp site, my grandfather would hang the same bucket light he made to hang on the pole for extra light.…
A walk in the woods By: Dawson Pellegrin Alonso, a young explorer, took his adventure a bit too far when he got lost in a dark wooded area after thinking it would be a piece of cake. After hours of wandering without any trace of familiarity, he found himself in a marsh just off his trail, he walked right into a large quicksand hole, trapped in the quicksand that had sucked him into his hips. Knowing that no one is around, Alonso is determined to escape his fate of being swallowed by the sand. So in fright, he quickly grabs a nearby root of a half-sunken tree that was uncovered by the quicksand Alonso starts pulling as hard as he can but it feels like something is pulling on the other end trapping him like a rat keeping him from escaping and in that moment he sees two yellow eyes glaring at him from the bottom of the pit.…
The narrators detailed diction in describing these emotions and senses that are being brought back and relived, arouse similar feelings in the reader. It makes us empathize for the now, grown man. He remembers such things as the smell of his bedroom, “picking up a bait box, or a table fork” (25), as well as many other intricate details. Everything seems to bring him back to the cherished memories he had stored for so many years of him camping on the lake with his own father. The imagery used in the essay…
E.B. White's essay "Once More to the Lake" is a very well written piece of writing. That being saidI will first start breaking down the main points and different parts of this essay by discussing the more broad subject of his structure. Most of the essay is written about the present but he jumps periodically to his past. He uses this effect as a comparison between the past and the present. It shows mostly how his son is just like he was, but at the same time his son can be different. For instance they both snuck out on the boat, but he used a quiet oar while his son used an loud outboard motor. The time and culture differences seem to jump out to show some of the suttle differences time can cause. An example could be the switch of people from humming inboard motors to roaring outboard motors. I say these are suttle, but in this story they are everything. He uses the small differences to show how much the world has changed. It is easy to understand and apply the concept because the story is so realistically true. The essay was just a chronlogical story about a fishing trip, besides the occasional flashback of course. A very simple story used to show the importance of the observations made during different points in the authors life. He is able to bring it all together.That is one part of what makes this literature so great.…
My essay is about reliving memories through pictures. I looked back at my summer memories and it made me remember all the good times I had and what I had to look forward to. When I am in a bad mood, thinking about the good times that are possible to have makes me feel a lot better. In The Outsiders, Ponyboy felt this way when he was looking through his yearbook. He remembered the happy moments he had with his gang when he was younger, when life was simple. When I am stressed out about difficult times in my life, looking at pictures can always make me feel better. This also goes for good memories in general. The remembrance of Johnny will always cheer up the gang of Greasers and bring a smile to their faces, the same way my pictures did.…
There are six criteria that need to be met when writing a narrative essay: Narrate your story using first person point of view, Write about a past or personal event with past tense verbs, Focus on one specific dramatic event that builds tension – suspense – for the reader, use vivid and specific language that describes and recreates scenes and people, write meaningful dialogue that moves the story, and explain why the event is significant to you.…
The Swimming Pools by Thomas Lux is a poem that talks about the rich and the poor. Lux use 5 kids at an apartment complex pool, one fat kid, one insecure girl, and three other kids to represent the different social and economic classes we have in society today. Lux compares these kids to the poor, the lower middle class, and the rich. He uses the innocence of the kids at the pool to get the idea that the rich always are cruel to the poor, and he uses the insecure girl to show the sympathy the lower middle class has for the poor because they are so close to them when it comes to social and economic class. In the poem The Swimming Pools, Thomas Lux gets his theme of the top always has it easier than the bottom across by using literary devices such as symbolism, hyperbole, and diction.…
John Foulcher writes interesting poetry because he can make the reader see, feel, and think. Summer Rain , demonstrate to the reader that Foulcher’s poetry is not only thought provoking and realistic, but it is also able to capture aspects of society through his unique use of imagery.…