“All the Englishes I grew up with” (Tan 2). But on the not literal level, that physical shake turns out to be a more holy one as well as the chill of wet trunks becomes the chill of the grave. As he sees his son pulling on a wet swimming trunks pair after a storm, he remembers the feeling of doing the similar thing as well as his body felt the uncomfortable shake his son is facing. These words “Chill of death” feels a real chill. With a slight concentration, however, it is easy to see how the essay go obviously to a approach of sense of death or certainty. This is a disturbing and at the start abrupt finishing for the essay, mainly since on first reading it appears to be simply a pleasing depiction of a vacation on a lake side. This essay ends with the line “the chill of death”. Perhaps his dad is dead and one day he will pass away too, his son is getting bigger up as well as he is getting older. Both strengthened as well as he himself also feels the chills and gets feeble because he can see that the fact that he is getting older but his son is not getting older. The line shows the association between his son and himself. “As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death” (White 1). But both are same as both are regarding to someone else as both pointing to another person. She is referring to English language here. White refers to cherish memories with his father whereas Amy is not referring to the cherish memories she is referencing to the worst memories here. Only difference here is White consider him as he was with his father and Amy considers her as if she was like her mother and life of her mother affected her life too. Indeed it is greatness of events that has given them the evidence that things haven’t changed. In both quotes, there is an evidence that as time progressed everything remained the same for them in spite of the passage of time. But on the other hand, both characters are different as they understand maturity and natural cycle of death. Both the characters confront multiple changes in them as both struggles with the illusion that their present existence remains the same with their past existence. Similarly both White and Amy are in a state of confusion and nervous. In both the quotations, time it the main relying factor. It affects a lot on her studies and limited her possibilities.
As her mother was poor in English she can observe that too. As she grown up she observes reflexes of her mother in her. On the other hand, the quote from ‘Mother Tongue’ Amy also describes the reflecting of her mother she had in her. It shows that tune and changes that it brings in us. This idea emerged again as White compares the memories of his childhood as he revisits the lake with his son.
Those cherish memories he had with his father were always a great joy of pleasure for White. In these quotes, White is referring to his father and the old memories he had with him on the lake.
The quote from “Mother Tongue’ is “I think my mother’s English almost had an affect on limiting my possibilities in life as well” (Tan 2). The wuote from “Onice More to the Lake’ is “I began to sustain the illusion that he was I, and therefore, by simple transposition, that I was my father” (White 2). Both stories expresses memories and mainly the twist of language. Nothing seems to be changing for them, everything has been the same over the years. It matters a lot for both A.Tan and E.B.White the way time has affected their life. As in both stories ‘Mother Tongue’ and ‘Once More to the Lake’ shows a glimpse of time passage and the impact of time on the characters of the story. The first quote from both essays is related to time.
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