1. What makes this essay a strong narrative because EB White creates a very descriptive image from the surroundings to the emotions to the sensations felt of what it feels to relive a memory. White wants to put the us, the readers in the same place when he was a child. He uses many details in his writing to bring the readers back in time and actually experience an implied experience. Throughout the short story, White uses words that help us visualize each scene which keeps the readers interested. His visual content creates a connection to his readers and creating that connection is important for the reader's to keep wanting to read more and making them care about the story.
2. The short story sums up mostly of flashbacks. The father takes his son to the lake and everything is still as he remembered it was years ago. The father has flashbacks of the times that him and his dad spent together and has a difficult time portraying what is real and what is a memory. There was a few times during the short story when White would position himself in the shoes of his son as a younger version of him and positions his adult self as his own father. 3. "When the others went swimming my son said he was going too. He pulled his dripping trunks from the line where they has hung all through the shower, and wrung them out. 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 and around his vitals the small, soggy, icy garment." I think this quote means that he is using this time to say goodbye to the past and all the old memories and accepting that he is now going to make new memories with his own son just like what he did with his father. "I began to sustain the illusion that he was I, and therefore by simple transposition, that I was my father." When White reminiscence his fun times and becomes sad knowing that, that was where he and his dad would come and his father could no longer be with them to share and make more memories.