I chose to compare “A Prison‚ A Paradise” by John Jeremiah Sullivan and “Once More to the Lake” by E .B. White. There are many reasons to choose to travel; specifically for these two authors‚ it is to visit a place that has meaning to them on more than the “excursion for a day” level. They temporarily suspend their daily lives to take a trip to spend time in a different environment. Both places they choose to visit can be considered at least somewhat remote‚ secluded‚ and‚ for all intents and
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Vanessa Soler Professor Isabel Grayson English 109 September 17‚ 2013 The Reality of Life In the essay‚ “Once More to the Lake” by E.B White‚ a father returns with his son‚ to a vacation lake in Maine‚ where his father used to take him when he was younger. When the father spends time there with his son‚ he begins to reminisce on the experience he shared at the lake with his own father. The thought of immortality and timelessness tricks the narrator into believing no time has passed. While
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Once More to the Lake is an essay mainly about how the author/dad‚ E. B. White‚ can’t quite seem to let go of his childhood. A lot of his childhood memories are embedded within the lake and the surrounding areas‚ so he cannot help but constantly reminisce about how things were when he used to visit the lake as a child. This seems to take away from his current visit to the lake in my opinion. He does not seem to want to live in the moment but constantly makes comparisons of how the waitresses were
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what is it really? In E. B. White’s “Once More to the Lake” the author talks about the summers he spent on a lake as a child. The main point of a memory is to explain how one place could make someone feel young or happy. Like my grandmother’s house‚ even though she has passed away‚ every time I go back I feel happy again. In White’s essay‚ there are certain things about his childhood that have not changed such as the atmosphere‚ the people around the lake‚ and the author. First is the atmosphere
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This week I am writing about the first reading assignment‚ “Once More to the Lake” by E. B. White. I chose this reading item to write about as I was able to easily relate to spending summers camping outdoors‚ fishing and boating. The author did a great job enhancing his writing by adding detail to his story. I was able to follow along easy and too felt the connection of his past time passion for being with his dad and enjoying nature. The author’s technical style of using hypens and semicolons
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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
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Once More to the Beach When I was younger‚ my family would often go on vacation to Navarre‚ Florida. If it was asked of me‚ I would not be able to pinpoint the city on a map‚ but I remember the exact layout of the area where we visited. We frequented the beach so often I can recall with certainty the salty smell in the air. Often when thinking of that town‚ I reminisce on the feeling of sand under my feet. In the essay “Once More to the Lake‚” E.B. White speaks nostalgically about previous experiences
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This line from E.B. White’s Once More to the Lake‚ is structured as a declarative‚ compound-complex sentence. It is compound because it contains two separate clauses which are joined together by a semicolon. It is complex because the main clauses contain a combination of an independent clause and a dependent clause. In the first portion of the sentence‚ the dependent clause is “In the daytime‚ in the hot morning…” and the independent clause is “these motors made a petulant‚ irritable sound.” In the
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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
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One summer‚ along about 1904‚ my father rented a camp on a lake in Maine and took us all there for the month of August. We all got ringworm from some kittens and had to rub Pond’s Extract on our arms and legs night and morning‚ and my father rolled over in a canoe with all his clothes on; but outside of that the vacation was a success and from then on none of us ever thought there was any place in the world like that lake in Maine. We returned summer after summer--always on August 1st for one month
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