Once More to the Lake Summary (Class 12. Opt. English)

Once More to the Lake

EB White

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'Once More to the Lake' is a memoir written by an American writer EB White, where he recollects and describes his experience of revisiting to the lake in Maine in East America. During his childhood, he had visited the lake several times with his family. In the present time at his old age, he is visiting the lake again with his son. He describes the lake as a holy place because it provides him peaceful state. It is the memento of his childhood. It makes him forget the worldly worries and takes him to his beautiful past, his beautiful childhood. It also makes him forget his death. Thus, it is a sacred and heavenly place for him. While spending his time at the lake, he feels his dual existence because his past memory haunts him. He finds himself in his son and himself as his father. He is at the same time his father's son in imagination and his son's father in reality. When he came to the lake with his father, he was also young like his son, and he still has the fresh memory of his past days though some of things have changed there.