One More To The Lake Analysis

In E.B White essay "One more to the lake" is a well written piece of writing. White essay is written about the present which he uses this effect as a comprising between present and the past. He shows how his son is just like him and how he used to be. Also how his son is different. Like for instance they both snuck out the boat, but also how he would use aloud out board motor. The difference between time and culture seem to jumps but to show some of the shuttle difference time can cause. Like when he explain the switch of people from humming inboard and to roaring outboard motors. White uses the small difference to show how much the world has changed. It can be easy to understand and apply the concept because some is realistically true. The …show more content…
'I kept recalling everything, lying in bed in the mornings -the tiny steamboat that had a long rounded stern like the lip of a Ubangi, and how quietly he ran on the moonlight sails, when the older boys played their mandolins and the girls sang and they ate doughnuts dipped in sugar, and how sweet the music was on the water in the shining night, and what it had felt like to think about girls then.' The only thing that was wrong now, was the sound of the place, an unfamiliar nervous sound of the outboard motors. This was the note that jarred, the thing that would sometimes break the illusion and set the years moving. In those other summertime’s, all motors were inboard; and when they were at a small distance, the noise they made was a sedative, an ingredient of summer sleep. While time has preserved White's lake, what they calls a 'holy spot,' there were moments that forced White to acknowledge that indeed, time had passed. White views this as an interruption to his nostalgia. Nostalgia is a romantic, rose-colored way of taking a look at the past. This interruption surfaces as they compares how the boats from his childhood sounded compared to modern