The son however is the main force that allows for the illusion to sustain itself because he actually exists in the present day. The river in this case refers to both the father and son of the narrator. He says “You cannot step twice into the same river.” The river will give the illusion that you can (Platizky 176). Platizky connects the narrator stepping in and out of different identities and times to a quote from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. Through it all he was still trying to maintain his own identity by suppressing the creepy sensation. In the past he was imagining himself in the shoes of his son doing all of the actions his son did in the present. In the present time, he was imagining his father saying the words or This was exactly what the narrator was doing. According to Platizky, it is hard to imagine yourself as existing in three separate times in three separate identities. The narrator seemed to be living a dual existence, one which was his son and the other his father (White 116). This starts to occur when he observes his son doing everything the narrator had once done in the past. The narrator is envisioning a scenario that is timeless as possible to avoid the reality that every person is a creature of age. To accomplish this, he tried to create a timeless connection with his son that got strengthened by the illusion that he was his son, but ultimately, because of the contrast of past with present, the connection was ephemeral and deteriorated by the end of their trip. The narrator desperately needed to stop his aging. In the illusion the son acted as a medium to pause time because he represented the narrator’s youth. The narrator was growing older and wanted to relive the days of his youth and he did so by creating an illusion. The unwavering feeling was the basis for the narrator’s internal struggle with the passage of time. Once this feeling became too strong to ignore, he had to go revisit the lake with his son. One summer afternoon after the progression of many years the narrator gets an unwavering feeling from the restless and fearful nature of the sea water (White 115). This event was one of ritual it was something that happened every summer. White Critical Analysis: Final Draft “Timeless Connection” Reminiscence takes over when the narrator flashes back to the summer of 1904 where his father took him to a lake in Maine. B.Jithu Alexander “Once More to the Lake” by: E.B. Write a short piece for them, send it to The Editor. The New Yorker is always looking for new talent. Not all magazines read unsolicited contributions, but some do. And when you write something, send it (neatly typed) to a magazine or a publishing house. Henry Thoreau, who wrote Walden, said, "I learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." The sentence, after more than a hundred years, is still alive. You are right that a person's real duty in life is to save his dream, but don't worry about it and don't let them scare you. It enabled me to do a lot of writing and gave me a good journalistic experience. In college (Cornell), I got on the daily newspaper and ended up as editor of it. If you have a counselor at school, I'd seek the counselor's advice. But I can't advise you, or won't advise you, on any such decision. After a year of skiing and working, he is now settled into Colby College as a freshman. Sometimes it works out well to take a short vacation from the academic world-I have a grandson who took a year off and got a job in Aspen, Colorado. I went to college but not direct from high school there was an interval of six or eight months.
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