1) Analyzing - Evaluate E.B. White's use of description by writing a response that answers the following: do you feel you are the audience of White's piece?
In E.B. White’s story, “ Once More to the Lake” he wrote the story as though he’s personally telling you about his life experience about him growing up going to the lake in Maine and now returning as an adult with his son. He speaks about intimate moments he had at the lake when he was younger and as he gets older it feels as though nothing has changed, it's as though he went back in time to his childhood. He also explains, in great detail, every sense he is re-experiencing as an older man. In the 2nd paragraph on page four, he explains to the reader all about inboard and outboard boats. He talks about the sound the inboard boat used to make and that it was “an ingredient of summer” (pg 4, para. 2, line 5) and goes on to describing how an outboard boat works. I feel in that paragraph he stops just to explain to the audience the dramatic difference between what he grew up using versus what his son is growing up with.
What is the "significance" of the story, and are you specifically included in that significance?
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White reliving his childhood but now with his son. He felt confused during most of the trip to the lake because it was though he was in his father's body and he was looking down at himself as a child at the lake, but in fact it was his so the whole time. A large contributing component to him having extreme noligostia of his childhood was the fact nothing had changed since 1904 when he went with his father. “ I seemed to be living a dual life. 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 it would not be I but my father who was saying the word or making the gesture. It gave me a creepy sensation.” (pg 2, para. 2, line