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A 2 page paper which examines the style of writing in E.B. White’s Once More to the Lake. No additional sources cited.
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imagery. One of his essays, "Once More to the Lake," is an intriguing and powerful though simplistic story about a father and son. The following paper examines the intent of
the writer and the style of writing used by White. Once More to the Lake In this story we have a man with his son. The man is
recalling the memories he had at this particular lake, and wishes that his son too would possess such memories. He thinks of fishing and the excitement of the nature that
surrounded him as a boy. His son, however, does not apparently feel anything about being at this lake. However, the division between the two and how the narrator offers us
the differences, is really not as drastic as the narrator feels it is. The narrator is offering the reader a look at his own past, and our past in childhood
memories is often more exciting than it really was. We, as adults, often long for those times we felt were incredibly exciting, but they did not become, perhaps, so exciting
until they had seen several decades go by. The boy had not yet had a chance to develop these joys and memories of excitement. The father expected him to possess
them, but he had yet to develop them. White almost offers an aggressive and incredibly passionate look at all of this in his use of words and his imagery.
Towards the end of the story, for example when he has slowly come to the realization that his son is not him, nor is he his son, a thunderstorm breaks
out, recalling his own memories again, and perhaps starting a memory for his son: "Then the kettle drum, then the snare, then the bass drum and cymbals, then crackling light
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