Once More To The Lake E. B White Analysis

Upon reading both stories, per the assignment, my choice to write about is, "Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White.

The story has very concise and appropriate wording which helps to excite and enlighten the readers. The author does a great job at continually compelling his audience to further read the story, while also entertaining them with facts, examples, memories and he does a very good job at providing details throughout most, but not all of the story. While reading the story, the audience is able to visualize the surroundings, the environment and the attitude in which the story is shared from the author's point of view. When we read the seventh paragraph the author is emphasising the catch of the day, water condition for fishing and while he states "We caught two bass, hauling them in briskly as though they were mackerel, pulling them over the side of the boat in a businesslike manner without any landing net, and stunning them with a blow on the back of the head."(2), he lacks a defining moment
The author states, "We would be tired at night and lie down in the accumulated heat of the little bedrooms after the long hot day and the breeze would stir almost imperceptibly outside and the smell of the swamp drift in through the rusty screens."(1) This sentence really has a way of creating a naturalistic, unobstructed and raw approach to defining the evening following a tiresome, sometimes hectic day. It explains the scenery very well in addition to the weather. This sentence seems to grab my attention because it is not so easy to describe weather through a screen.

Moreover, the author is able to share a factual story that occurred during a very memorable trip, while not leaving out any expressionist views on the various subjects that he so vividly talks