In “The Lake” Ray Bradbury reflects on a distant memory that seemed like a lifetime ago. The story is set on a beach with a young boy and his mother on a late summer day in September. The point of view is set on the young boy throughout the story. The beach was empty and felt lonely to the young boy so he decided to take a walk down the shore by himself. He then thought he caught a glimpse of his friend that i’m assuming died in the water or got lost near the water long ago. The story goes on and now the young boy is much older. He revisits the beach many years later to find nothing has changed. He finds a sack with what appears to have something in it so he opens it up; his lost friends body washed up on shore. The dead girl had not changed
