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Summary Of Once More By The Lake By E. B White

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The essay “Once More by the Lake” was written by a man named E. B. White. This is a descriptive essay. It starts off with White recalling a time when his family and he would go to a lake in Maine when he was a young boy. White describes his times at the lake to be rough starting out but overall one of his favorite places to be. Remembering all the great memories that he and his dad had during their visits to the lake made White want to revisit and give the same wonderful experience to his son. All throughout this essay White describes the lake as nothing less than a breathtaking sight to behold. He suddenly mentions the impurities such as the mud and twigs at the bottom of the lake or the broken ribs of their boat, none of which he refers to in a negative way. …show more content…

Throughout the entire essay, Whites mind jumps back in forth from reality to the time when he was a little boy experiencing the things his son is doing with him. White makes multiple references to not knowing if he is experiencing this visit at the lake as a little boy like he once was or as the father. It seems as though White is stuck between his memory and reality as he watches himself do the same things his dad did and watches his son do the same things he once did. This makes White constantly question himself on which body is his. The only thing White says would take him out of his allusion was the sound of the boat motors too close to shore because that wasn’t a sound he remembered as a child. White finishes his essay by describing a storm at the lake that was ending and though the storm was strong it could not change the significance of the

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