The essay "One more to the lake" took the reader on a trip back to the authors's, White's, finest childhood memory. White structured his piece in paragraphs of his memories and how they compared to what he was currently seeing as he revisited the lake with his son many years later. A descriptive piece is painted through multiple memories as walt relives them with his son now just as he had done with his father then. Each memory contained the illusion that no time had passed, when in reality multiple years separated the trips to the lake. Some of the things White saw when returning to the lake sparked old memories to come flooding back to him. Everywhere White went around the lake on his trip reminded him of his past experiences, and he began to see so many similarities between his former self and his son he could no longer tell his he was experiencing things in the moment or through a memory.
As the essay begins to reach its concluding paragraphs white has begun to have been taken over by fear as he watches his son. His sudden stroke of fear is not over a bad memory or fright for his son, his fear is the result of his sudden realization his is getting older. As he watches his son fill his own role during the trip to the lake he slowly begins to recognize he is just as slowly, taking his fathers. At the end of the essay White is struggling with accepting he is growing older.
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