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

In the article Once More To The Lake in The Blair Reader: Exploring Issues And Ideas, E.B. White told his journey story when he was a kid and an adult. White and his father went on vacation at a lake in Maine in summer. They enjoyed every moment at the lake, except the ringworm attacked them. They went fishing, swimming, and canoeing, they ate food at the farmhouse, and they bought some goods at the souvenir counter. After that, White came back to the lake with his son. Everything at the lake made him recall his past because anything did not change, but his feelings, this time, were more intense because many things his son did were the same as he did when he was younger. After reading the article, the story might not be exciting, but there are many feelings and thoughts.
I feel that I participate his journey. White …show more content…
White explained “... an unfamiliar nervous sound of the outboard motors. … In those other summertimes all motors were inboard; … the noise they made was a sedative, and that was a quiet sound too. But now the campers all had outboards. …, these motors made a petulant, irritable sound. … they whined about one’s ears like mosquitoes.” The motors in the past were soft sound, and then when the technology was developed, the motors were outboard and made noisy sound that annoyed the peace of the nature. People go on vacation because they want the peace for resting. If technology continues to destroys the nature, the attraction will no longer have any travelers. My family experienced some beach where it was quiet and did not have any facilities. We very enjoyed that attraction because we had to do many things by ourselves such as cooking, and pitching the tents. When we went back at that beach, everything totally changed because of the progress of businesses. There were many hotels, restaurants, and automobiles. It was not as fun as we were here in the