"Once More to the Lake" read through analysis
Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 22:41:10
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 3 pages (912 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 3 pages (912 words)
"Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration." -Kahlil Gibran, "Children of Gods, Scions of Apes" . The understanding of the passage of time is the main theme in the essay of "Once More to the Lake" by E.B. White. The essay is a story of White and his son revisiting his childhood vacationing spot and …
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…acceptance of his own mortality . He had watched himself trade places with his father and watched his son take on his previous role. White's diction, imagery and tone supported his deep-felt emotion for his precious summers and the comparison of his internal battle of how he wanted to remain a young boy at the lake and how he was unwelcome to the idea that time had continued on and he could never turn it back.
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