Rhetorical Analysis of E.B. White?s ?Once More to the Lake? E.B. White?s ?Once more to the Lake? provides keen insight into the life of a middle-aged man reflecting on the past‚ present‚ and future. The setting of the essay primarily resides at a lake that offered the author endless amounts of pleasure as a child. Now as an adult‚ the author wishes to relive this experience and try to recapture his youth. Throughout the essay a major theme develops: Although the passage of time produces a link between
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OnOnce More to the Lake White‚ E.B. “Once More to the Lake.” The Norton Reader. 13th ed. Linda Peterson et al. New York: W.W. Norton and Company 2012. 79-83. Print. In E.B. Whites essay “Once more to the Lake”‚ E.B. White writes of childhood memory going to the lake camping with his father as a young boy and now taking his own son to the lake. Most of the essay is very descriptive detail of memories camping at the lake as a child and White conflicting growing older as he makes new memories with
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Once More to the Lake Argument Essay In Whites essay “Once More to the Lake‚” the narrator ends with a chilling sensation. As White watches his son hop out of the lake‚ he has an epiphany concerning his old age. “As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death.” the concluding sentence is not only effective‚ but also perceives the purpose of the entire essay. With a little attention‚ it’s easy to see how the essay leads naturally to a sense of death’s approach or inevitability
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AP English Description and Narration "Once More to The Lake"‚ by E.B. White portrays desscription and narration‚ refelcting the general sentiment by describing the experiences with his son that he shared with his father at a later time. White utilizes adjectives to emphasize that his son reminds him deeply of himself. Illlustrative description conveys how personality traits of families get passed down to younger generations. White sees and describes the dragongflys actions as well as
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Once More to the Lake by E.B. White The clock is always ticking and the world is always changing whether we want it to or not. In E.B. Whites "Once More to the Lake"‚ A present day father takes his child to an area his family would frequent for a week every summer. Upon arriving back at his childhood retreat‚ he is hit with an almost overwhelming sense of nostalgia. Once a child on a family vacation‚ the narrator is now reliving his childhood based on the experiences of his own child visiting
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Once More to the Lake The essay “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White was about a man who had a great sense of nostalgia after he reminisces old childhood memories of a lake in Maine. The author begins to feel a sense of immortality and is in denial of the fact that he’s not a child anymore. He begins to realize that we cannot relive or recreate our childhood‚ only visit the locations it took place. Throughout White’s essay‚ he begins to convey his confused and deniable emotional roller coaster
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Homework on “Once More to the Lake.” White says that he seemed to be living "a dual existence" as a father in the present and as a son in the remembered life of the past. Point to some moments when that dual existence seems most natural and to some when it seems more difficult to maintain. What seems to explain the differences to him and to you? Ans; Some of the moments when that dual existence seems most natural are when he got back there at the lake with his boy‚ he knew that lying in bed
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After reading all of the descriptive essays I found that I liked the “Once More to the Lake “By E.B White. His essay is easily readable and his diction is simplistic. His descriptions and imagery include Whites past and present memories. The narration is first person through the eyes and voice of the author. On the other hand I feel that his theme is more elusive. This retrospection allows the reader to slip behind the wall of time and memories to watch a son and father enjoy the America dream a
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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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September 31‚ 2012 Once More to the Lake In this story the author relives his childhood memories on a lake in Maine where his father used to take him and his siblings. In the story the author has moments where he “seemed to be living in dual existence” where he sees himself as his son and sees himself being his father at the same time. The author says “I would be in the middle of a simple act‚ I would be picking up a bait box‚ or laying down a table fork‚ or I would be saying something‚ and suddenly
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