Reread
E.B. White’s essay “Once More to the Lake.”
Decide what kind of Tone E.B. White creates. You might decide that there is more than one
tone; if so, then you would be noting what is called a shift in tone. After you’ve identified tone(s), use the
handout called D.I.D.L.S., and decide what strategy or strategies White uses to
establish tone(s). Once you have
identified the strategy/strategies, then list your evidence to support it and
write a brief phrase on the effect of the evidence you chose. Remember, your job is to connect all of your
evidence to Tone and discuss how each piece of evidence creates Tone. To make your job easier, use the template
below. But before you begin, read this
sample introductory paragraph for an AP response that highlights tone.
E.B. White
takes us “Once More to the Lake” where he feels as though time
stood
still. He toys with the illusion that
his son was him, and that he was his
father.
This illusion becomes too hard for him to resist; and at almost every
setting, White views the world through his son’s eyes. But by the end of White’s
essay, the illusion is broken. Because
of White’s tone of ______________ and
then __________, one can only wonder if
this may be one of the very last times
he goes once more to the lake.
Notice
that the paragraph highlights the name of the author, the name of the essay,
and an ever so brief discussion on what happens within the essay. The last sentence answers the prompt.
BUT, before
beginning your response, here’s a little Lesson on one example of Syntax, called
a Periodic Sentence. Perhaps E.B. White uses Periodic sentences to create Tone.
Definition:
Periodic Sentence=A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended
syntax, in which the sense [of the sentence] is not completed until the final
word--usually with an emphatic climax.
Now read
the following paragraph below and identify which sentence is the periodic
sentence. Within the periodic sentence,
isolate the subject and the verb, then email Ms. Carlson the core sentence
without all the modifiers. First 10 correct responses wins a prize! Contact Ms. Carlson at: aplangkhs@gmail.com.
"Upon every other stage the universal agent is love, by whose power all good and evil is distributed, and every action quickened or retarded. To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival into the fable; to entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture and part in agony; to fill their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow; to distress them as nothing human ever was distressed; to deliver them as nothing human ever was delivered, is the business of a modern dramatist."
(Samuel Johnson, "Preface to Shakespeare," 1765)
Hint,
your verb= “is” and your subject happens to be a dependent clause (a group of
words with a noun and a verb that do not represent a complete thought)
Definition for Periodic sentence and sample sentence was
found at: http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/periodicsenterm.htm. Click on the link if you would like to read
more examples of Periodic Sentences.
Ready to tackle Tone?
Use the template below and copy/paste it into the blog.
Tone is: Nostalgic
ReplyDeleteStrategy Used is: imagery
Evidence of this strategy is: The evidence that White used imagery to illustrate a nostalgic tone was how he remembered most clearly “the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen”. White goes on to explain that he was always the first one up and “would dress softly so as not to wake the others, and sneak out into the sweet outdoors and start out in the canoe, keeping close along the shore in the long shadows of the pines . . . being very careful never to rub paddle against the gunwale for fear of disturbing the stillness of the cathedral”
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone is:
By White using words like “would, smelled, was,” shows that he is talking about the past but because of his detailed description of the smell and look of the lake, one can easily tell that White is reminiscing on his childhood days spent and how he enjoyed them. White also uses the word “cathedral” in the last sentence of the excerpt from above. The meaning of cathedral is a place of safety or a sanctuary. White is implying that as a child and even as an adult, the lake is his sanctuary. He does not want to “disturb the stillness” of it because that is what makes the lake so extraordinary to him.
Marina Mireles
HOPES
Tone is: Nostalgic or Reminiscing
DeleteStrategy Used: Imagery
Evidence of this strategy is: In "Once More to the Lake" E.B. White addresses the fact of missing the lake and missing his childhood. White mentions the lake and how even if you left the lake for a few hours and came back the lake would still be not stirred and calm. This shows us how smooth and glassy the lake must have been.White also says that the lake was so clean that when a school of minnows swam past that you could see each individual minnow and it's shadow very "clear and sharp" in the sunlight.White also remembered when he first arrived at the lake. It at a rail station. When the farm wagon was drawn up you could smell your first smell of the pine-laden air. You could get the first glimpse of the smiling farmer. You could get the first view of the lake and its beauty.
Effect of evidence and how it creates tone is: When White uses adjectives such as "clear and sharp" and words such as "seen" he shows us what his tone is while sharing his memory with us using descriptive language. White mentions how when he first arrived at the lake he could smell the "fresh pine-laden air" this shows us how his reminiscing tone remembered the lake. He also mentioned how clear the lake was when he looked in and could see a single minnow out of a school swimming. This shows how clear and sharp his memory of the lake is. It's the little things that makes him remember the lake. A smell here or there. Something he seen here or there. It all gave him a lasting memory of the lake.
Joshua Blaine
HOPES
Dear Josh,
DeleteWell first of all I am completely "wowed" that you responded to the blog so early in the week. And secondly, while I was reading your response, my first thoughts were that it was okay. And then you hit me with you last sentence, that last thought:" a smell here or there. Something he's seen here or there." The way you said it made me understand that you really got how the E.B. White uses imagery that appeals to more than just ones visual senses; he also uses it to appeal to our . . . how do you spell that word? olfactory senses, meaning of course our sense of smell. I have heard people talk about the fact that without our sense of smell, we would not enjoy eating. That the smell of something can bring back certain memories we thought we had often quite forgotten. When you ended with that thought, a smell here or there, this is what an AP Reader would call the ability to "write yourself into the essay". If we can manage to linger a little longer on our thoughts as we write, we usually end up finding other ideas that make writing, well, SING.
Respectfully,
Ms. Carlson
PS Now figure out that sentence. There has only been three winners so far.
Tone is: Awe
ReplyDeleteStrategy Used: Imagery
Evidence of this Strategy: The evidence Used in “Once More to the Lake” to portray Imagery was when he was talking about the early mornings waking up on the lake, “Remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen”. E.B. White included the senses he felt at that very moment, the smell of the lumber, and I was pulled in by his vivid use of imagery. In the fifth paragraph White wrote, “ I felt the same damp moss covering the worms in the bait can, and saw the dragonfly alight on the tip of my rod as it hovered a few inches from the surface of the water”. With his clear descriptions, he is able to create a clear picture in the readers mind. And then he shifts while still using imagery, “ The only thing that was wrong now, really, was the sound of the place, an unfamiliar nervous sound of the outboard motors”.
Effect of the evidence and how it creates tone: When White used “ Remembered and Smelled” in the first sentence above, you immediately sense that he is talking about his past and how it was the same as when he was a kid. When he describes the lake, He is in this sense of awe(Solemn Wonder) of where he is in his child's place and at the same time he felt his father in his shoes. Also, in the the fifth paragraph the word “same” came into play. By White using this word it meant that he was remembering his time on the lake, that same damp moss, like time had never passed. In the last sentence in the paragraph above, White talks about the lake and how one moment he is this little boy and it seems like no time had passed, but all the sudden he is catapulted to the present by this unfamiliar, irritating sound by the motors. The sense of Awe in this piece is how simultaneously he is a little boy in his memories with his father, but all the sudden he is sitting there with his own son and he is the father.
Haylei Sheldon
IDEAS
Tone is: Nostalgic
ReplyDeleteStrategy used is: Imagery
Evidence of this strategy: The evidence used in “Once More to the Lake” by E.B White to display his use of imagery using a nostalgic tone starts off when he begins to describe the first morning his boy and him went fishing, and the dragonflies seemed to be dancing along the water’s surface. White describes it as , “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. There had been no years between the ducking of this dragonfly and the other one—the one that was part of my memory.” Then he goes on to state the confusion and even slight dizziness, as he “didn’t know which rod I was on the end of.”
Effect of this evidence and how it creates the tone is: White uses phrases as “the one that was part of my memory.” Through that phrase it suggests that White is holding on to a memory that he once lived. The reader can tell through this phrase that White is obviously talking about a past experience that lead to a story worth remembering. Then White uses another phrase “I didn’t know which rod I was on the end of.” The reader then feels the state of confusion, and emotion that White feels, when he is struggling with the internal battle of his dual existence of his father, and his son. What some may see or feel internally, others may not.
Myah Post
HOPES
Tone: Sentimental / Nostalgic
ReplyDeleteStrategy used: Imagery
Evidence of this strategy is:
In “Once More to the Lake” by E.B White the strategy used is imagery to create his tone of sentiment and nostalgia. Throughout the passage imagery is employed to describe the lake and all of White’s surroundings to give the lake a beautiful and everlasting image in the readers mind. Just one of many parts of the passage using imagery is,“I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings..the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent extended through the screen..sweet odors..” This use of imagery effectively conveys White’s tone of sentiment and nostalgia.
Effect of evidence and how it creates tone:
When White is explaining about his son sneaking out of the cabin, his use of imagery shown above hints at a nostalgic and sentimental tone. When saying the words “remembered..smelled” White alludes to the fact that he has been there before, and now he is reliving the experience again, reminiscing nostalgically on the time he once did the same thing. Through the passage White continuously flashes back on the times he had at the lake as a young boy, showing his sentiment for the lake and all the memories he has made there as a child.
Aaryn Gray
IDEAS
Tone is: Nostalgic
ReplyDeleteStategy used is: Imagery
Evidence of this strategy: The evidence found to be used in the passage“ Once More to the Lake: by E.B White was to show the reader the strategy of imagery, by using the Tone of Nostalgic. He begins the description of the Morning him and his boy went fishing and how there are dragon flies that across the water, as if they were dancing. E.B white describes this as a,” dislodging fly, which darts two feet away, two feet back, and coming to a rest getting father up onto the rod. There had been no years between the ducks and dragonflies, the one being apart of my memory.”
Effect of the evidence and how it creates the tone is: E.B white gives the reader a phrase,” The one being apart of my memory.” In the phrase that was given gives the reader that White is cherishing that memory because it was apart of him being in his youth. He then moves on to the another passage, “ And coming to a rest and getting father up onto the rod.” Giving the reader that sense of E.B white that he has an emotion coming back to the lake and giving him that sense that he isn’t a kid anymore and he is now grown up with a kid of his own.
Kristian Sablay
Hopes
Tone is: Nostalgia
ReplyDeleteStrategy Used is: Imagery
Evidence of this strategy is: In E.B. White’s “Once More to the Lake” the narrator describes his trip with his son back to the lake where he spent countless childhood summers. As he observes his son he is, metaphorically speaking, sent back in time and imagines his son as his young self and himself as his father. The nostalgic tone in White’s writing is apparent in his use of imagery, which appears many times throughout the text. An example of such imagery is found in the fourth paragraph as the narrator watches dragonflies rest on his and his son’s fishing rods, then the author adds, “I looked at the boy, who was silently watching his fly, and it was my hands that held his rod, my eyes watching.” Later in the passage the narrator describes one of his last afternoons with his son at the lake as a thunderstorm rolled in. In a last effort to create imagery within the passage the author says, “He pulled his dripping trunks from the line where they had hung all through the shower, and wrung them out. Languidly, and with no thought of going in, 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. As he buckled the swollen belt my groin felt the chill of death.”
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone is: E.B. White’s use of imagery in “Once More to the Lake” employs a nostalgic tone to the writing. One of the first instances where imagery was used, while watching the dragonflies as him and his son were fishing, creates a subtle and initial connection between the narrator’s childhood memories and his son’s first experiences at the lake. As the passage progresses there are more examples of the narrator imagining his son as being himself in the past and as himself being his father, watching him do the same things his own son does. The buildup of imagery throughout the text eventually leads up to the final paragraph where the author inserts a dramatic finish with the sentence, “As he buckled the swollen belt my groin suddenly felt the chill of death.” It is in this final phrase where the reader realizes that the narrator connected himself as a child at the lake with his son so much that he physically felt the same thing as his offspring did. That last bit of imagery makes the audience go back and reanalyze the rest of the passage and then it all clicks, the author is a psychopath who doesn't know the difference between reality and memory, the ultimate plot twist.
^Ruby Hawthorne
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Tone is: Remembrance/ nostalgia
ReplyDeleteStrategy used is: details/ imagery
Evidence of this strategy is: The significance of E. B. White constantly giving detail to describe his son’s loss of nature opportunities in the second paragraph, “I took along my son, who had never had any fresh water up his nose and who had seen lily pads only from train windows”, is one such example. The description of the cottage organization around the lake, being “sprinkled” haphazardly, was an example of detail mixed in with an integrated bind of imagery. Giving a thorough picture of the surrounding setting is a prime example of imagery without question, and the gift of this information provides detail. One final use of detail that I will point out is the discussion about his childhood remembrance of him playing in the lake in the summertime with his family watching cheerfully. “This was the American family at play” he said, and he gave this detail to give reason to bringing his boy down to experience such a great summer as well.
Effects of Strategies: The usage of extended imagery in White’s piece gave meaning to the rhetorical strategy Pathos, you could say. By letting the reader into the contextual setting of the story, White shows them his feelings about the past, present and future significance of the lake. With his thorough use of language, he exercised his detail with utmost background informative precision. Also, by using words such as “remembered, revisit, marred”, White shows an obvious long to return to the lake to bask in its greatness. His tone says so, bright as day.
Tone is: Nostalgic
ReplyDeleteStrategy used: Imagery
Evidence of this strategy is: The evidence used in “once more to the lake” to portray Imagery was when he remembered how the bedroom smelled of lumber it was made of and the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen”. White says this because he was stating how the scenery made him feel when he was a child and used to stay there. It made him reminisce about when he was a child. It also tells you exactly what he is felling at that moment. When I read that I could just smell that damp lumber smell, with the woods in the backgrounds. This gave me a clear picture of his surroundings with this wet lumber, and the damp woods.
Effect of the evidence and how it creates tone: By White using the words remember, smell, and was makes you automatically think of the past, because of how much he talks about how the woods were, and how the cabin and lumber was. You can easily tell he is reminiscing about how he remembered the woods as a child and how much he enjoyed these days. You can also feel how stoked he is to be there again by the way he describes everything about the woods.
Chaz Pacleb
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Tone is: Nostalgic
ReplyDeleteStrategy Used is: Imagery
Evidence of this strategy is: Evidence pertaining to imagery in “Once More to the Lake” is when E.B White talks about walking from the farmhouse to dinner on a country road with his son, “The road under our sneakers was only a two track road. The middle track was missing , the one with the marks of the hooves and the splotches of dried, flaky manure.” and “The tape had loosened along the backline, the alleys were green with plantains and other weeds, and the net (Installed in june and removed in september) sagged in the dry noon, and the whole place steamed with midday heat and hunger and emptiness.”.
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone is: The whole story is mainly talking about the past and rarely the present. White uses Imagery to describe the confusion between him being his father or his son, “I looked at the boy, who was silently watching his fly, and it was my hands that held his rod, my eyes watching. I felt dizzy and didn't know which rod I was at the end of”, and to create the illusion that time has never passed since he’s been to lake house, “There had been no years between the ducking of this dragonfly and the other one-- the one that was part of my memory”.
Camilla Vernon
HOPES
Tone is: Nostalgic
ReplyDeleteStrategy Used is: Imagery/Details
Evidence of this strategy is:
The evidence that Imagery and details are used as a strategy in creating a nostalgic tone is the way that E.B. white describes everything and how it seems as if nothing has changed. Examples of this are when White says “ I guess I remember clearest of all early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen.” Another example is when he says “I felt the same damp moss covering the worms in the bait can, and saw the dragonfly alight on the tip of my rod as it hovered a few inches from the surface of the water.” Or when 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 the ribs broken in the same places…”
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone is
How this evidence creates the tone of Nostalgic is that it is constantly appealing to different senses. It makes you see things, hear things, smell things, and even taste or feel things. All of the details and the images that are going on in your head help describe a nostalgic situation because the narrator is remembering a time in his life. He is telling you about how things used to be at the lake and how they are almost exactly the same today. The sentences in this passage are rich with detail. They describe everything so much so that you can see or hear or feel it. In this way you almost feel the nostalgia that the narrator is feeling. Its like you’re there with him because the images are so strong.
Megan Devin
IDEAS
Tone is: Nostalgic, longing
ReplyDeleteStrategy used is: Imagery
Evidence of this strategy is:
E.B. White's entire 'Once more to the Lake' passage is based on his memories of his past experiences at a lake in Maine with his family as well as how he had a hard time making the change from the son to the father. Most of the author's memories are conveyed through imagery, for example: "I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen". This example of White's imagery talks about what he saw and smelt as well as the feel that it all gave him. Another example of the author's imagery is on the second page: "A school of minnows swam by, each minnow with its small, individual shadow, doubling the attendance, so clear and sharp in the sunlight. In this example the author builds a crystal clear image by going in-depth on something as simple as a minnow in the lake.
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone is:
In this story, the author conveys a nostalgic tone. His tone leads you to share in his longing for the past and inability to move into the future, sort of like he has homesickness where he wants to go back to the past and be the son once again. The imagery used in the passage, especially my first example about the lake and the aromas of his cabin, cause you to experience the same feeling the author had both in the visit he was currently on and the ones from his childhood that he secretly longed for. Both examples explain something that the author says hasn't changed a bit and it is that timelessness that causes the author to feel nostalgic and thus causes the tone to be nostalgic.
Tone is: Wistful, Nostalgic, and Evocative
ReplyDeleteStrategy Used is: Diction
Evidence of this strategy: Most notably in the 8th paragraph, White uses words like indelible, unshatterable, forever, tranquil, and floating, all of which convey a similar everlasting nostalgic feeling. "Summertime, oh summertime, pattern of life indelible, the fade proof lake, the woods unshatterable, the pasture with the sweet fern and the juniper forever and ever…the cottages with their innocent and tranquil design, their tiny docks with the flagpole and the American flag floating against the white clouds in the blue sky...”
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone: By using these less common words in the same or adjacent sentences, White provokes the same wistful and evocative feeling inside the reader that he felt as he relived his childhood experiences with his own son.
Colby Sargent
IDEAS
Tone is: Nostalgic
ReplyDeleteStrategy Used is: Imagery/ Details/ Juxtaposition/ Metaphor
Evidence of this strategy is:
“We went fishing the first morning. I felt the same damp moss covering the worms in the bait can, and saw the dragonfly alight on the tip of my rod as it hovered a few inches from the surface of the water.” This is one of the many examples of details that White provides in his writing. His details are very rich with imagery and allow the reader to envision what the author is experiencing. White uses juxtaposition with the father and son’s experiences and continues to speak about the differences between the past and the present. He also uses metaphors. For example, “Then the kettle drum, then the snare, then the bass drum and cymbals, then crackling light against the dark, and the gods grinning and licking their chops in the hills.” The purpose of this metaphor is to establish strong imagery and make the description more powerful. It also appeals to your hearing sense because the description makes it so you might know what it sounds like, and in that case, White uses the senses to establish strong imagery and allow the reader to feel like they are actually taking part in the story.
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone is:
The attitude in the opening paragraphs is happy, reminiscent, and light. It is evident that the author is talking about something that they really cared about and enjoyed in their past. The definition of a Nostalgic Tone is: A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past. In this essay White is definitely longing for something in the past.
How the evidence creates the tone of Nostalgic is that it is constantly appealing to different senses. An example is Sound- “These motors made a petulant, irritable sound; at night, in the still evening when the afterglow lit the water, they whined about one’s ears like mosquitoes.” The purpose of the senses is to establish imagery and allow the reader to feel like they’re there. White uses many other strategy’s in the essay to simply connect them and let them flow together evenly.
Amanda Thayer
Hopes
Tone is: Reflective/ Reminiscent
ReplyDeleteStrategy Used is: Imagery
Evidence of this strategy: White uses imagery throughout his essay to vividly describe his experiences at the lake. An example of this is when he writes about fishing with his son. He writes about the feeling of the moss and how he saw a dragonfly hovering above the water. He relates this back to his childhood by saying that “There had been no years between the ducking of this dragonfly and the other one--the one that was part of memory.”
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone: E.B. White uses imagery to portray details of a particular scene to convey to the reader his love of the lake. By appealing to the reader’s senses, White is able to connect the reader to his experiences. Because of this, the reader can imagine what White is feeling as he relives his childhood through his son. The imagery used in his essay expresses White’s reflective tone.
Marissa Nikolas
HOPES
Tone: Reminiscent
ReplyDeleteStrategy Used: Imagery
Evidence of Strategy: White’s passage was about the memories that came back to him during his second trip to the lake now, as an adult. When White says “I guess I remember clearest of all early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen.” he uses imagery to recall precise details that have stayed the same throughout his two trips. Another example is: “..dislodging fly, which darts two feet away, two feet back, and coming to a rest getting farther up onto the rod. There had been no years between the ducks and dragonflies, the one being apart of my memory.” He again, speaks in great detail of his past experiences and how he can still relive them today.
Effect of Evidence and How it Creates Tone: White’s use of imagery throughout the passage played a key role in setting the tone. His entire passage was for the most part, about him reliving his childhood memories of the lake by going to the lake again. White constantly refers back to old memories and the macabre sensation of realizing that you are getting old. White’s use of imagery really put his tone in an an easy-to-see light.
Matthew Steinohrt
IDEAS
Tone is: Nostalgic/reminiscent
ReplyDeleteStrategy used is: juxtapose and imagery
Evidence of this strategy is: The evidence of strategies that E.B white uses in “Once More to the Lake” is juxtapose and imagery. White uses juxtapose with his experience at the lake and son’s experiences at the lake and tells about the differences between the pass and the present. One of the many imagery that write uses is when he uses vivid description of his son going in to the water. “When the others went swimming my son said he was going in, too. He pulled his dripping trunks from the line where they had hung all through the shower and wrung them out. Languidly, and with no thought of going in, 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. As he buckled the swollen belt, suddenly my groin felt the chill of death.”
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone: By using juxtapose with the father and his son’s experience at the lake and between the pass and present he is reminiscing and reliving to his childhood memories at the lake with his sons.
Sincerely,
Zhaira Agrade
Hopes
Tone is: Reminiscent, bittersweet
ReplyDeleteStrategy used: imagery
Evidence of this strategy is: Throughout the passage White uses imagery to create a reminiscent and bittersweet tone. The use of imagery to convey this tone is clear in the sentence, “I left the same damp moss covering the worms in the bait can, and saw a dragonfly alight on the tip of my rod as it hovered a few inches from the surface of the water”. The tone is bittersweet White remembers the lake as being much the same, and is reminded by slight differences that he has changed. “I could tell it was going to be pretty much the same as it had been before -- I knew it, lying in bed the first morning smelling the bedroom and hearing the boy sneak quietly out and go off along the shore in a boat” It is bittersweet because he remembers when he was the boy sneaking out and now he is the father.
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone is: By going into such detail in the use of imagery the reader can tell that White is feeling nostalgic about his past. “I could tell it was going to be pretty much the same as it had been before -- I knew it, lying in bed the first morning smelling the bedroom and hearing the boy sneak quietly out and go off along the shore in a boat” The author is conveying a tone that bittersweet. He remembers everything with such detail because it means a lot to him. He is also sad because he remembers when he was a child doing the same thing his son is doing. He misses his youth, throughout the passage White reminisces about the past. He is happy that so few things have changed but when he see something that is different from when he was a child he is reminded that it is not only the lake that has changed but him as well.
Victor Sanchez
IDEAS
Tone is: Sentimentality
ReplyDeleteStrategy Used: Imagery
Evidence of this Stategy:
White uses the rhetorical strategy of imagery. He uses this throughout the passage but a specific example of this is in the sixth paragraph. White goes to say "There had always been three tracks to choose from in choosing which track to walkin; now the choice was narrowed down to two."
Effect of Evidence:
In this quote from the passage White creates a visual scene of this change that White saw and encountered from his time being at the lake as a child compared tohow it was years later when he cam back with his son. This creates a sentimental feeling because everyone can relate to the change that's occurred sence there childhood. Translating this feeling through the imagery is how throughout the passage White creates the tone
Noah LaMadrid
IDEAS
Tone:Nostalgic/Morbid.
ReplyDeleteStrategy:Imagery
E.B. White opens his essay, "Once more to the lake" using a nostalgic tone. He is looking back at his younger self and the trips he use to take with his father and still feels like a young boy. An example of this is when he and his son go fishing out on the lake. During there fishing trip he begins to feel like his son is himself as a child and he is now his father. This tone continues threw out E. B. Whites essay until the thunder storm. During the thunderstorm Whites tone turn morbid. He is sitting in his cabin with his son and begins to realize that he is not this little boy anymore, he is getting older. During the last paragraph or his essay he uses the phrase "My groin felt the chill of death." This sentence brings out his realization that he cant stop aging and that even thou his son doesn't realize it yet, he will get older too.
To bring out his key points E. Be. White uses imagery. The use of Imagery can be seen if parts like the fishing trip, and the thunderstorm. Also in his childhood memories and time spent with his son.
Sincerely,
Lauren Benson
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ReplyDeleteTone is: Remembrance or Reverence
ReplyDeleteStrategy is: Imagery
Evidence of this strategy is: In the passage “Once More to the Lake”, E.B. White describes all the events that he can remember using his senses. For example, he says “I felt the same damp moss covering the worms in the bait can…” White has a mini flash back as he sets off to fish with his son on the lake. He goes on to say “...everything was as it always had been, that the years were a mirage and there had been no years.” White shows that time has not altered the lake in any way, from his perspective.
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone is: This shows that White really loves the lake, and wants to remember all the memories he had as a child. When he recalls events from his childhood, he shows how sweet the memories were.
Bryson Baligad
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Tone is: Nostalgic, Reminisce
ReplyDeleteStrategy used: Imagery
Evidence of this strategy: In “Once More to the Lake”, E.B White uses imagery throughout the whole story to look back at the past. His first paragraph introduces the reader to his summer of 1904, creating a picture of the campsite in Maine. Along with that, he explains that he bought bass hooks and a spinner to fish and revisit old places at the lake he used to go to. E.B White says, “I guess I remembered the clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose sent entered the screen.” The author uses descriptive words regarding the five senses to help the reader create the same picture that he had in mind.
Effect of this evidence and how it affects the tone: The author's use of imagery causes the story to become more realistic to the reader. I used the second paragraph as an example of imagery that helps express the tone of reminiscing. This is because before he adds more details to the memory, he says words like “I remember”. This verb clearly shows that he is thinking back, and trying to live in the past. For instance, he says, "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. You remember one thing, and that suddenly reminds you of another thing." This sentence also creates a connection between the reader and E.B White.
Hazel Jarquio
HOPES
Tone is: Nostalgic to at the very end dreary
ReplyDeleteStrategy Used is: Visual Imagery
Evidence of this strategy: E. B. White uses many details that depict imagery in his writing, the most prominent type in the passage is visual imagery. These are two quotes from the essay.
One example of the nostalgic tone and the use of visual imagery to depict that is in paragraph 8, “…the fade proof lake, the woods unshatterable, the pasture with the sweet fern and the juniper forever and ever…”.
One example of the dreary tone in the end and the use of imagery to depict that is in the second to last paragraph, “a curious darkening of the sky, and a lull in everything that had made life tick…”
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone:
The author uses visual imagery to help the reader picture the beauty and unique experience of visiting the lake every summer. Imagery is used to describe the setting of his story, because the setting is a very important part of the story. Stating the way the lake looks to the author creates a feeling of warmth from the lake because you know now the majesty of it and the stories behind it.
In the very end the essay shifts from a nostalgic tone to a dreary tone. In the second quote White is describing the storm, but at the same time setting the tone of the essay. The fact that the essay ends with a storm points to what the tone is in itself. The tone is changed dark in the end because the author has his big realization. He isn’t a little boy anymore, he is an adult and time doesn’t stand still as he mentioned previously in the essay. The very last sentence is a metaphor to refer to how the he feels time is slipping away and eventually he will die. The entire concluding paragraph is ending the fantasy land the author is in, and telling him to grow up, which is why the tone is dark, because life isn’t rainbows and butterflies.
^Jenna Stone
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Tone: Remembrance
ReplyDeleteStrategy: Imagery
Evidence: The evidence that shows White using imagery to portray his tone of nostalgia is when he talks about how everything was the same and nothing had changed. He tells us of how “the small waves were the same, chucking the rowboat under the chin as we fished at anchor “. White also explains of how the boat was exactly the same telling us of how it was broken, still, in the same places, with the same debris that gets left by from the freshwater.
Effect of Evidence: By White telling us of how the boat and water looked the same can tell us that he does have a sort of remembrance of the lake, but by going into detail of how the boat and water was the same can tell us that he does remember his days as a child going to the lake very vividly. White remembers his past so good that he tells us of how all those years that had passed were all a mirage or an illusion.
Tone is: Nostalgic
ReplyDeleteStrategy Used is: Syntax
Evidence of this Strategy Is: In paragraph 5 E.B. White uses the phrase “the same”. The way that he places them at the beginning and end of certain sentences is what makes it syntax instead of diction.
The other evidence of syntax is in paragraph 8. “Summertime, oh summertime, pattern of life indelible, the fade proof lake, the woods unshatterable, the pasture with the sweet fern and juniper forever and ever, summer without end”
Effect of this Evidence and How it creates Tone is: Syntax in the 5th paragraph creates tone by linking everything that White saw directly back to what he saw as a child. The same means that nothing had changed since he was a child and that everything he sees looks like that of an exact memory from his childhood. Which undoubtedly gives a nostalgic tone.
The syntax in the 8th paragraph is one long sentence broken up into a bunch of very small parts by commas. This causes the reader to read it in little snippets, and these little snippets give short little images in each one. This way of describing a place is like seeing memories and flashbacks not as if you were explaining something in detail for the first time.
Wylie Barker
IDEAS
Tone: The tone of this passage is reminisce.
ReplyDeleteStrategy: Imagery
Evidence of this strategy is E.B. Whites use of anecdotes. E.B. White uses such description in his view of the lake and all of his experiences at the lake. He puts you in his shoes and how he is taken back to his childhood. He is reminiscing his days of youth when he sees his son.
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone is that White really has you see what he see and feel what he feels. You can feel his reminiscences as he looks down at his son and sees everything he did as a child, until the very end when he finally realizes that he is not his son, and that he is grown up and that time has passed. Time has changed.
Naea Oda
Hopes
Tone of passage: Nostalgic
ReplyDeleteStrategies used: Imagery/ sensory details
Evidence of this strategy: In the passage “Once More to the Lake”, E.B. White leans mainly on the use of imagery and sensory details. These strategies are evident throughout his entire essay, in the way that he describes and compares his experiences from the past and present. For example: “the American flag floating against the white clouds in the blue sky,” “I felt the same damp moss covering the worms,” “the first smell of the pine-laden air”. These were only a few of the many examples of imagery and sensory details that E.B. White used.
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone: By using imagery and sensory details E.B. White is able to share his exact emotions and experiences with the reader. By his use of imagery in particular we are able to see the lake through his eyes. Also, by his use of the other sensory details we can feel what he felt, and smell what he smelt. His descriptions of the lake are from his own personal memory, and the strategies he uses to describe it, enhances the idea and tone of nostalgia.
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Autumn Begley
Tone is: Nostalgia/Reminiscent
ReplyDeleteStrategy is : Imagery
Evidence of this strategy is: In E.B. White's "Once More to the Lake", every scene that is in the essay is described eloquently with sensory language. White goes into detail of the sights, smells, feel, and sounds (doesn't really talk about taste). This is displayed when he writes that "I left the same damp moss covering the worms in the bait can, and saw a dragonfly alight on the tip of my rod". Most authors would tend to stick to a quick sentence about the situation, but White elaborates much more than is necessary. He describes each passing event with great attention to detail, laying out every scene with sense that the reader is right there with White.
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone is: This evidence shows that White has great memories there, and that he doesn't want to leave any detail out, no matter how small. He also writes with emotion and hints at missing the place he once visited every summer. The times he describes his childhood, his love for the Lake and the surrounding area really shows. He seems to wish to go once more to the lake.
Paul Oyama
HOPES
Tone is: Nostalgic
ReplyDeleteStrategy Used is: Diction
Evidence of this strategy is:
"Summertime, oh summertime, pattern of life.......better than they looked" (Paragraph 8).
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone is:
By using words like forever, fade proof, and without end, White was able to portray the 'forever young' feeling to depict how White was reminiscing about being his son.
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Keisha Aki
Tone: Rememberance
ReplyDeleteStrategy used: Imagery
Evidence of Strategy “The same damp moss covering the worms in the bait can… everything was as it always had been, that the years were a mirage and there had been no years.”
How it creates tone: The imagery he used talks about the damp moss covering the worms in the bait can, just the same as it was when he was a boy, the lake has not changed he explains and that everything is always as it had been. He’s remembering what it;s like when he was a boy and it’s the same as what it’s like now, and there had been no years. These act as a flash back and I pictured him, as a boy seeing the same things.
Noelani Cassidy
HOPES
Tone: Nostalgic
ReplyDeleteStrategy used: Imagery
Evidence of strategy: E.B. White says, "I was right about the tar: it led to within half a mile or the shore."
Effect of this evidence: When White says "the tar", he means the road because earlier in the story White had mentioned how there was no paved road to the lake. When he is talking about how the road has now reached the lake, he really leaves an image painted in your mind of what it must look like. It creates this sense of memory and almost a longing feeling that he wants it to be back to the way it was. The reader can really relate to this feeling because everybody has had a change in their life that they remember very clearly.
Kai Harrison
IDEAS
Tone is: Nostalogic
ReplyDeleteStrategy Used is: Imagery
Evidence of this strategy is: The evidence that White used imagery to illustrate a nostalgic tone was how he remembered all the things from when he last came there as a child, such as “..the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless...”, and “...remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen...”. White also uses imagery to describe the first morning his boy and him went fishing, and the dragonflies seemed to be dancing along the water’s surface. He describes it as, “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. There had been no years between the ducking of this dragonfly and the other one—the one that was part of my memory.” Then he goes on to state the confusion and even slight dizziness, as he “didn’t know which rod I was on the end of.”
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone is: at the end of the story when White “relives” when his son goes out to swim at the cabin. By saying the words “remembered” and “smelled”, White alludes to the fact that he has been there before, and now he is reliving the experience again, reminiscing nostalgically on the time he once did the same thing.
Elise McDonald
IDEAS
Tone is: Wistful
ReplyDeleteStrategy Used is: Anecdote
Evidence of this strategy is: The very first word of the essay is the start of an anecdote- humorous, short, personal, and entirely elemental in the development of E.B. White's tone. A few sentences after Whites description of his first trip to the lake, another anecdote begins "-as I was always the first up I would dress softly so as not to wake the others, and sneak out into the sweet outdoors and start out in the canoe," ect.
Effect of this evidence and how it creates tone is:
By introducing the lake with a funny story about his first time there at the youthful age of 6, White communicates the old memories he has at the lake. Old memories, even the less fond ones like catching ring worm from kittens, once long gone, often hold a sentimental place in our hearts.
The use of a peaceful memory in the second paragraph creates a serene image of the lake which contributes to White's tone of nostalgia. The description implies the calm was loved, and therefor missed.
Zuri Shanklin
IDEAS
Tone: Nostalgic
ReplyDeleteStrategy Used: Imagery and Anecdote
Evidence of this Strategy: In the beginning of the passage, E. B. White talks about how he would always go to the lake with his dad as a child. Now that he’s grown up and he goes with his son, I think that there are little bits of anecdote as he goes into the imagery. When he talks about the “dual-existence” with his son, there’s a lot of imagery. He also repeats the same things over and over again from the beginning of the passage and into the second half of it.
Effect of Evidence: Especially as White gets into the dual existence with him being his father and his son being himself as he was a child, it really gets you into the sense that E. B. White really was into going to the lake with his dad. The reader really gets the feel of the fact that he really does remember everything that went on and it really gets the reader to understand what that dual-existence really means for White.
Erica Cabalona
IDEAS Academy