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. 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". That the smell of something can bring back certain memories we thought we had often quite forgotten. I have heard people talk about the fact that without our sense of smell, we would not enjoy eating. how do you spell that word? olfactory senses, meaning of course our sense of smell. White uses imagery that appeals to more than just ones visual senses he also uses it to appeal to our. Something he's seen here or there." The way you said it made me understand that you really got how the E.B. And then you hit me with you last sentence, that last thought:" a smell here or there. And secondly, while I was reading your response, my first thoughts were that it was okay. Well first of all I am completely "wowed" that you responded to the blog so early in the week. It all gave him a lasting memory of the lake. It's the little things that makes him remember the lake. This shows how clear and sharp his memory of the lake is. He also mentioned how clear the lake was when he looked in and could see a single minnow out of a school swimming. 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. You could get the first view of the lake and its beauty.Įffect 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. You could get the first glimpse of the smiling farmer. When the farm wagon was drawn up you could smell your first smell of the pine-laden air. 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. 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. White addresses the fact of missing the lake and missing his childhood. He does not want to “disturb the stillness” of it because that is what makes the lake so extraordinary to him.Įvidence of this strategy is: In "Once More to the Lake" E.B. White is implying that as a child and even as an adult, the lake is his sanctuary. The meaning of cathedral is a place of safety or a sanctuary. White also uses the word “cathedral” in the last sentence of the excerpt from above. being very careful never to rub paddle against the gunwale for fear of disturbing the stillness of the cathedral”Įffect of this evidence and how it creates tone is:īy 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 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. 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”.
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