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

What message does E.B. have? White communicates about the importance of experiences away from our usual busy lives and how does he communicate this message?

Throughout “Once more to the lake” E.B. White, using his own experiences and feelings, shows how everyone needs that one safe sacred place in their heart, a place where they store happy memories, a place far from the monotone cities corrupted by men. That place that replenishes your body. E.B. White’s sacred place was the lake he grew up with, every August. The lake full of memories still was a part of E.B. White, even years after his last visit, “I have since become a salt-water man, but sometimes in summer there are days when. the restlessness of the tides and the fearful cold of the

to revisit old haunts”. Even though E. B. White didn't go back to the lake and has different preferences for salt water. Something in him longs for the calm and peaceful aura lingering by the lake. E.B. White could vividly recall the smells, feelings and exciting adventures he took years before.”Bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen. I was always the first up I would dress softly so as not to wake the others and sneak out into the sweet outdoors and start out in the canoe, keeping close along the shore in the long shadows of the pines.” While at the lake he took every advantage of every moment as he couldn’t wait for his solo adventures and snuck out himself. Now ”(Arriving was less exciting nowadays, when you sneaked up in your car and parked it under a tree near the camp and took out the bags and in five minutes it was all over, no fuss, no loud fuss about trunks. They were one-cylinder and two-cylinder engines, and some were make-and-break and some were jump-spark, but they all made a sleepy sound across the lake. outboards. these motors made a petulant, irritable sound. whined about one's ears like mosquitoes.” The hums of