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Bonding In White's Once More To The Lake

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As a young child, one 's life relies on the hands of a parent yet as one grows up a clear distinction is seen in the type of relationship that is established between a parent and child. In Once more to the Lake by White, he makes his son do the exact same things he once had done as a young boy during the annual summer trip to Maine lake. White uses the dual existence to illustrate the pattern of parenting bonding that has existed within generations of his family meanwhile White begins “to sustain the illusion that he was [his son], and therefore, by simple transportation, that [White] was[his] father”(White 689). White has formed a very close bond with his son that allows him to know that his son is happy and doing the same things he had
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