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The tone of her essay is rather casual and playful. These seemingly playful and simple events are made complex and intricate with the use of words such as “serpentined” and “mazes”.īy doing so, Welty is adding to the subject in which events of your childhood seem more interesting than as an adult. Welty captures this youthful feeling as she describes the scene in which she “skipped jumping rope up and down, hopped it’s length through mazes of hopscotch, played jacks in its islands of shades, serpentined along it on Princess bicycle, skated it backward and forward” (Welty par. The purpose of doing so is to describe the pure innocence of youth, in which a corner store can prove to be mesmorizing. In her essay, Welty remembers the importance of this store and how it shaped her family.
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Just like Once More to the Lake, The Little Store depicts Welty’s memory of an important childhood setting but in this case the setting is a store. White seems to struggle with living in this childhood memory of the lake, which appears to be so vivid that an illusion is created in his head in which White is still a child.
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While the tone of White in his essay is extremely nostalgic as he reluctantly accepts that time has aged him. The diction of White’s essay seems to mimic the motions of the lake: calm and tranquil. Thus creating White’s dual-existance in the world living as a child, as well as an adult. In these last sentences, White is not only realizing that he is middle-aged, but he is feeling what his son is feeling as he enters the cold lake water. As he buckled the swollen belt, suddenly my groin felt the chill of death” (White par. I watched him, his hard little body, skinny and bare, saw him wince slightly as he pulled up around his vitals the small, soggy, icy garment. One of the most prominent pieces of the essay that depicts the overall meaning is described in the very end of the essay. “I began to sustain the illusion that was I, and therefore, by simple transposition, that I was my father” (White par. Throughout the essay, White is constantly comparing himself to not only his son, but his own father. The main purpose of doing so is to depict the effects of time on not only the setting, but on himself. He begins by describing the lake when he was a child and then progressing as he ages. White’s Once More to the Lake, White relives his experience at the same lake to which he visited as a child. Their memories are only enhanced through the authors use of language and style to convey meaning through out their essays. For White, it was a lake where his family vacationed and for Welty, it was a small corner store. Each of these writers focus in on a place from their youth that had a deeper meaning to them. White and Eudora Welty explore these memories in their pieces Once More to the Lake, and The Little Store, respectively.
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Every person has one of these “clips” in which they have a vivid memory of one place or time from their youth. This exact clip was cut out of my childhood and remains imprinted in my memories for some unknown reason. I searched around the hoard of flowers until I found the perfect one. I wanted to pick a flower for my mom, who was inside of our apartment. They were surrounding me with shades of yellow and black I stood in the middle of a sunflower garden.