Revised Essay
Matias Miranda
10/17/26
For many people, different environments make them feel certain ways. In the essay Once More to the Lake by E.B White the lake holds a special place in the narrator’s heart because he spent summers there with his father. Nostalgia arises as the narrator and his son perform the same tasks the narrator did with his father: fishing in the lake, seeing a dragonfly, and talking with waitresses. He notices that a lot of the area around this lake has changed significantly, like the roads, pathways, people, and buildings. However, even with these changes, the lake continues to stay the same, giving off a sense of timelessness. Finally, he starts to really appreciate how holy this place is to him and he shows …show more content…
After spending the afternoon with his son, he starts to reflect on his past years at the camp; he remembers, “when the older boys played their mandolins and the girls sang and we 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 narrator really appeals to the reader 's sense of taste, hearing, and sight to show his pleasure through this flashback. He continues to use flashbacks while describing the lake and the cabin when he says,”I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen." Here he continues to employ sensory words in order to to enhance his feeling of nostalgia toward the lake. The author begins by remembering the early mornings, and then more details become clear as his thought process brings back more memories of the mornings at the lake. Finally while taking notice of a storm, his nostalgia transports him back to childhood and he remarks, “It was like the revival of an old melodrama that I had seen long ago with childish awe.” Here the narrator talks about how he viewed the storm with “childish awe”. Using that phrase creates the sense that to him this is the same storm he witnessed as a …show more content…
As he notices he no longer sees his child self in his son. But notices that he is becoming like his father or like a new person. White is able to do a great job at showing an emotional response to him growing old . He never stops showing how special this place is to him whether it is through the timelessness, the feeling of nostalgia, and how sacred and holy land is in. He shows this through the use of flashback, sentence structure and language that appeals to the senses. White shows through the story that the lake is still very special to him and his family, and which look like it won 't change for a long
Matias Miranda
10/17/26
For many people, different environments make them feel certain ways. In the essay Once More to the Lake by E.B White the lake holds a special place in the narrator’s heart because he spent summers there with his father. Nostalgia arises as the narrator and his son perform the same tasks the narrator did with his father: fishing in the lake, seeing a dragonfly, and talking with waitresses. He notices that a lot of the area around this lake has changed significantly, like the roads, pathways, people, and buildings. However, even with these changes, the lake continues to stay the same, giving off a sense of timelessness. Finally, he starts to really appreciate how holy this place is to him and he shows …show more content…
After spending the afternoon with his son, he starts to reflect on his past years at the camp; he remembers, “when the older boys played their mandolins and the girls sang and we 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 narrator really appeals to the reader 's sense of taste, hearing, and sight to show his pleasure through this flashback. He continues to use flashbacks while describing the lake and the cabin when he says,”I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen." Here he continues to employ sensory words in order to to enhance his feeling of nostalgia toward the lake. The author begins by remembering the early mornings, and then more details become clear as his thought process brings back more memories of the mornings at the lake. Finally while taking notice of a storm, his nostalgia transports him back to childhood and he remarks, “It was like the revival of an old melodrama that I had seen long ago with childish awe.” Here the narrator talks about how he viewed the storm with “childish awe”. Using that phrase creates the sense that to him this is the same storm he witnessed as a …show more content…
As he notices he no longer sees his child self in his son. But notices that he is becoming like his father or like a new person. White is able to do a great job at showing an emotional response to him growing old . He never stops showing how special this place is to him whether it is through the timelessness, the feeling of nostalgia, and how sacred and holy land is in. He shows this through the use of flashback, sentence structure and language that appeals to the senses. White shows through the story that the lake is still very special to him and his family, and which look like it won 't change for a long