The Power Of Memory In E. B. White's Once More To The Lake
The human race is plagued with the curse of time. There is no way to avoid its unforgiving grip of which it holds every inhabitant of this planet. Each day as the clock ticks, our lives move on and we inch closer to possibly the scariest reality of our world, being forgotten. In E. B. White’s essay, Once More to the Lake, he delivers an underlying message of the power of a memory. As worldly possessions come and go, it remains impossible to take away a memory from someone. A weaker memory may be defiled and warped, but the true power lies within meaningful and clear memories which can stay with a person for the entirety of their life. He shows that even as his father stops taking him to his beloved childhood camping spot near a lake, and