The essay “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White is about how he takes a trip back to the lake where his family spent their summers. He decides to take his son back with him. On the way to the lake the father starts to wonder if anything has changed at the lake. When him and his son get to the lake he starts to remember the time he spent at the lake when he was younger. The main idea of the essay is that there are always memories that will give you the illusion that you are in the past but no matter how much you want to stay in the past you always come back to the present. The first place you see where memories turn into an illusion is when the father is laying in bed and his son begins to sneak out to ride in a boat in the early morning.
