White "Once More to the Lake"

I don't know what to start off and say about this essay. I felt as though White did a great job describing the lake and this place he use to visit as a child. But he also took it to a whole new level. He would go off and just start talking about one thing then he would remember something else and suddenly add that in. I felt as though this made things a little all over the place. When White was describing this place he made it seem as though he was experiencing it again as his son. When he was a child his family always went to this camp up in Maine and he describes this place to be his most favorite place. So when he had a son he wanted to take him there and show him what he experienced. But he also felt as he was going there as a child again. It was hard for him to realize that he for once was not the child but the father. Taking the place that his father had at this camp. He often describes how he has felt that time doesn't exist at this place and that everything is still the same as it was when he was a child. "There had been no years" (23) he is saying that he has never really grown up. At one point he is so confused on whether or not he is the father that he talks about how he doesn't know whether he is the child or the one in his place. I felt as though his trip back to this childhood place really effected him, made him very confused about where he was in life. It really took him back. White wrote a very well written remembering essay.