Once More to The Lake and The Little Store essay

When he takes the very route he used to take as a child, he notes that the same river banks, the same way to the little store, the same families who used to stay in their neighborhood and the same merchants in the neighborhood have remained constant even to date; where to date is the time when Welty takes his journey to the little store. To him, much has changed. He discovers that the families have changed, that they have multiplied, that the patterns in the little store have changed, and that there is a Monkey Man at the door of the little store. To him, being rooted is beneficial for his understanding and discovery of changes in the locality. On the other hand, it takes White and his son a journey to the summer lake for memory, in flashbacks, of what his father and himself used to do.

At some point in his rediscovery of the lake, he is holding his own bait and fishing rod, only to view himself as the son holding the rod. Both writers have their perspectives on their particular places change over time. In White's case, there have been many similarities between the place he visited as a boy and the place he is visiting with his boy. He says, “Up to the farmhouse to dinner through the teeming, dusty field, the road under our sneakers was only a two-track road. ” (White, 1). He says, “I'd skipped my jumping-rope up and down it, hopped its length through mazes of hopscotch, played jacks in its islands of shade, serpentined along it on my Princess bicycle, skated it backward and forward.

” (Welty, 2). This knowledge stamps her marking of the physical landmarks that existed during his childhood. When he was a child, his teacher used to stay by the way to the little store; still, she is living there, and though the fears still grip the grownup, much has changed about his locality. When he arrives at the shop, he realizes that much has also changed. This is from his child's point of view. On the other hand, Welty constantly refers to a time in its past tense, yet says that nothing has changed except the composition of the people of the Johnson locality. He also highlights some iconic characteristics about Johnsons, that “it was possible to have a little pasture behind your backyard where you could keep a Jersey cow, which we did,” (Welty, 1).