#2 Once More to the Lake. E.B. White

Memories are everlasting. Ordinarily, one does not sit in constant remembrance of past happenings, primarily because our focus is too much on the future. However, all it takes for a memory to return can be due just because of the swift brush and smell of autumn leaves tumbling along a path on a fall afternoon, two people holding hands and sharing an intimate kiss, or even the simplicity of a song. In E.B. White's short telling Once More to the Lake, he takes the reader on a journey of his greatest memory; Going to a lake with his brother and father. The tone throughout is reminiscent and lighthearted. In this quick telling of his past experience, Mr. White clearly expresses how even a ringworm filled vacation was one of the best experiences of his life. He goes on to say that even as an adult the "restlessness of the tides and the fearful cold of the sea water" can ironically make him reminiscent of a "placid lake". All it took was nature to heighten his senses and the memory of a lake and his father sits on the outer rim of his mind. E.B. then at that moment decided to take his own son to the lake. Memories are everlasting.