Thus, the audience can take connections from their own experiences and those of White’s as he continues to describe going to the lake. By using the subject “you” White connects to the audience to recall a situation in which they went back to a place from the past and could remember more about the memories that happened there. As he explains “It is strange how much you can remember about places like that once you allow your mind to return into the grooves which lead back,” he is expressing how returning back to the lake allows his mind to remember more and more about the memories there. Then, White switches to second person “you” as a way to direct the thoughts to his reader and as a way to describe further examination of his own thoughts. These sentences express White’s thoughts using the phrase “I wondered,” several times he begins to think about what may have changed about the lake he is going to with his son that he spent family vacations at in his own adolescents. For instance, in the second paragraph of the essay White writes the first four sentences with the subject of himself using “I” in first person. This tactic gives insight to White’s thoughts and reflection, but allows the reader to recall a time they went back to a place of their past as White is doing as he goes back to the lake. Ultimately, the audience is more perceptive to the observation of the age gaps between White’s son and himself because of the specific details of description.Īnother device that White uses in “Once More to the Lake,” is repeated transitions from first person to second person. This technique again constructs a clear image perceived well by the audience as if they were there first hand. He also uses this technique to give more detail to movement, “I lowered the tip of into the water, tentatively, pensively, dislodging the fly, which darted two feet away, poised, darted two feet back, and came to rest again a little farther up the rod” by the use of short clauses connected together it gives the senses of fast movement of the fly never staying in one place for long. In this sentence White does not only write that a school of minnows swam by, but what each one looked like. It is significant to notice the organization that White uses to construct each intended image he uses a chain of clauses to project clearly to the reader what he is seeing so that they can as well. An example of this is when he writes in regards to the lake, “A school of minnows swam by, each mino with its small, individual shadow, doubling the attendance, so clear and sharp in the sunlight,” White uses significant detail in this sentence to appeal to the audience’s sense of sight so they are able to conduct the clear image that he intended to construct. The bulk of this essay is description, White uses precise diction to appeal to the senses which enables the reader to picture the lake as if they were there with him. Though these tactics are efficient in how White analyzes the age gaps, the essay reads more like a journal entry or narrative, thus lacking a bigger audience other than White himself. He achieves this purpose and connects to the audience through the use of effective imagery, transition of first and second person, and describing the similarity between himself, his son, and his father. White, an author who brought about “Charlotte's Web” and “Stuart Little” among nineteen other books and essays, essentially observes the gaps between generations by reflecting upon his trip to a lake with his son. White records the surrealness of going back to a childhood destination with his son. In the essay “Once More to the Lake,” E.B.
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