White uses the lake as a setting where the narrator reflects on his past. It is a place where the present and past are both present. The lake is one of the only constants in his life that unlike everything else is still the same as in his childhood (” the small waves were the same, chucking the rowboat(…)the boat was the same boat, the […]

During his vacation White notices that although the arrival to the lake was deferent, as well as the boats which were on the lake, the lake Itself had not changed at all. The commute to the lake had changed from what E. B. White had originally experienced as a child. The trip to the lake was now a completely new experience. Originally, getting to the […]

An Analysis of E. B Whites, “Once More to the Lake” In E. B Whites essay, “Once More to the Lake” he reflects on his summer outing with his son. Throughout the trip, memories of his childhood, long forgotten, resurface themselves as he experiences the same vacation with his own son. These memories create in him a feeling as if time has not changed and […]

There are a few remembrances in our life like that at a lake in Maine that attract us and refresh our memory even though that happened a long time ago. “Once More to the Lake” written by Elwyn Brooks White is a wonderful recollection of summer times spent with his family, and especially with his father at the lake in Maine. Also I have some […]