Compare And Contrast Once More To The Wood By Eudora Welty

Kyle Frazier
Professor Angela Koritsoglou
ENGL101 Online
February 25, 2018

The essay Once More to the Lake written by E. B. White, is a short story about a man who took his son to the lake, the same lake his family would vacation at when he was a child growing up. The essay The Little Store written by Eudora Welty, is a short story of Eudora growing up in the house with her family in Jackson, Mississippi. Both essays were similar in a number of ways, one of which is imagery. Both writers shared detailed memories of their childhood. The detail of the memories that they wrote about in their essays were vivid and put you in the memory with them. When White wrote, “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.” (White), it placed you in the bedroom

Welty was direct with her theme when she wrote, “We weren't being sent to the neighborhood grocery for facts of life, or death. But of course those are what we were on the track of, anyway.” (153). The last lines in White’s essay reads, “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.” (White). White’s use of the word death is not a direct correlation to the theme of the story like Welty’s use of the word. Another similarity was how both writers blended time. Both characters went back and forth with the past and present when telling their stories. White’s character did this often throughout the essay and Welty’s character did it when the time called for it. Both writers told most of the story in the child view, coming out into the current adult view when they needed