?I have since become a salt-water man?, (53) says E.B. White. He eventually grew out of spending his summers at the lake. Yet he explains that he misses ??the placidity of a lake in the woods?(53). He decides to take along his son, ??who had never had any fresh water up his nose and who had only seen lily pads only from the train window?(53). Thus, he takes his son to the lake as his father once did for him. At this point he realizes he is not the child anymore; he is the father. White writes ?I seemed to be in a dual existence. I would be in the middle of some simple act, I woul

At the conclusion of the story White explains the occurrence of an afternoon thunderstorm. After the thunderstorm, everyone ran to go swimming in the lake as they did when he was a child. His son told him he was going swimming. As he looked at his son putting on his swimming trunks, it hit him all at once. White writes, ?As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death? (57). The sight of his child putting on his bathing suit reminded him so much of himself as a child that he actually feels the coldness. This demonstrates the theme of the story of change and continuity.

d be saying something, and suddenly it would be not I but my father who was saying the words or making the gesture. It gave me a creepy sensation?(54). Everything felt the same to him as it did when he was a child. He says, ?The small waves were the same, chucking the rowboat under the chin as we fished at anchor, and the boat was the same boat, the same color green and ribs broken in the same places, and under the floor-boards the same fresh water leavings and debris--the dead hellgrammite, the wisps of moss, the rusty discarded fishhook, the dried blood from yesterday?s catch?(54). Walking to th

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