Summary Of Once More To The Lake By E. B White

E.B. Whites, “Once More to the Lake”, is about the author and his son going on a fishing trip to Maine. Throughout the fishing trip E.B white recalls his own childhood at the lake, he unavoidably sees himself in his son and is brought to awareness of his own mortality. This evocative writing deals with time: its delightful past, its pleasant present, and its tragic future. This writing, affectionate in tone, shows that White needs to reconnect with this lake before he too, passes on. One descriptive word choice that White used that stood out was, “this holy spot” (White 158), this shows that White viewed this lake as a nearly sacred place, sacred because it represents; life and childhood and change and endings. This writing also makes me think of Chuck E. Cheese, a place that has the same special significance to me as the lake had to E.B. White. In “Once More to the Lake”, White sees himself as a youth through his son’s eyes, because he is at this place where he went as a kid. It reminds him of when he was young and so he sees himself
Cheese was the place to go on a rainy day. It was a place “where a kid can be a kid”, which means run around like a little chimpanzee; playing video games, collecting tickets, and basically wreaking havoc. While my mother ran aimlessly behind me. The best thing I remember as a kid was Chuck E Cheese’s band, which always intrigued me and of course the wide variety of games. Now as a grown woman, I take my baby nephew to Chuck E. Cheese, so the same excitement that I had as a child could be installed in him. Every time we go I have not yet to see him unamused by the band and the wide variety of games. In a way I feel like E.B. White because; I notice the unchanged environment of Chuck E Cheese, but also notice the few new games. I notice how involved he is and uninvolved I am. I notice that I passed down my excitement towards this place to my nephew, the same exact way White did to his