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Imagery/Setting: "restlessness of the tides and the fearful cold of the sea water and the incessant wind which blows across the afternoon into evening" (Paragraph 1)
The imagery at the beginning of the short story sets up the setting of the story and appeals to the 5 senses so readers feel connected with the literature.

Connotation: Negative connotations such as damp moss (P5), soggy, icy garment, and kittens with ringworms (P1) show how the father feels toward his son dealing with the struggles of nature and the cold lake.

Syntax-Parallelism: "The small waves were the same, chucking the rowboat under the chin as we finished at anchor, and the boat was the same boat, the same color green and the ribs broken in the same places, and under the floor-boards the same freshwater leavings and debris" (Paragraph 5)

The parallelism shows that nothing has changed throughout time - nothing has changed. Mortality, time!

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Summertime motif: shows cyclical nature of time, and how time preserves some things and destroys others
"Summertime, oh summertime, pattern of life indelible, the fade proof lake, the woods unshatterable..." (8.33)

Son motif: his kid highlights both what is similar between them and what time has changed since he last visited the lake
"...he was I...I was my father." (4.32)
" I took along my son, who had never had any fresh water up his nose..." (2.31)
Setting: preservation of his childhood, but also shows generational evolution of son progressing as the "new him"

Dragonfly symbol: dragonflies symbolize change/self realization and its ironic when the father sees the dragonflies and comments about how nothing has changed since he was last there
"There had been no years between the ducking of this dragonfly and the other one--the one that was part of memory." (5.32)

Doppelgänger: the son is the doppelgänger bc he mirrors his father (like water is a literal mirror!!)
"...he was I...I was my father." (4.32)

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"restlessness of the tides" paragraph 1
"fearful cold of the sea water" paragraph 1
"incessant wind" paragraph 1
"crackling light against the dark" paragraph 12
"electrical disturbance" paragraph 12
CONNOTATION:
Narrator foreshadows, sets up mood. Says he goes back to the lake for the tranquility in contrast to the chaos of the ocean

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Imagery: visual, auditory (Paragraph 10)

Connotation: negative
Negative b/c the change in motors has become a destruction to nature and his memory/childhood of how the lake used to be
"Petulant irritable sound"

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Connotation: Lake
-The lake connotes to a peaceful feeling, clean, deep, fresh surroundings.
Imagery: sand
"clean ripped sand" (6.32).
You see a boney ribcage which exudes an eerie tone.
Symbolism: Dragonfly
"it was the arrival of this fly fly that convinced me... that the years were a mirage and there hand been no years" (5.32).

Metaphor: woods
"the woods unshatterable" (8.33).
Connotation: Fly
The fly connotes to annoyance, dirt, and burglars.

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ALLUSIONS TO RELIGION:
"sustain the illusion that he was I... that I was my father" paragraph 4
CONNOTATION:
Narrator has parallel relationship with his son to the relationship of Jesus and God in the Bible. The two become interchangeable; the Holy Trinity is of separate components but in the same unit.

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Summertime motif: shows cyclical nature of time, and how time preserves some things and destroys others

Son motif: his kid highlights both what is similar between them and what time has changed since he last visited the lake

Setting: preservation of his childhood, but also shows generational evolution of son progressing as the "new him"

Dragonfly symbol: dragonflies symbolize change/self realization and its ironic when the father sees the dragonflies and comments about how nothing has changed since he was last there

Doppelgänger: the son is the doppelgänger bc he mirrors his father (like water is a literal mirror!!)

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Imagery/Setting: "restlessness of the tides and the fearful cold of the sea water and the incessant wind which blows across the afternoon into evening"
The imagery at the beginning of the short story sets up the setting of the story and appeals to the 5 senses so readers feel connected with the literature.

Connotation: Negative connotations such as damp moss, soggy, icy garment, and kittens with ringworms show how the father feels toward his son dealing with the struggles of nature and the cold lake.

Syntax-Parallelism: "The small waves were the same, chucking the rowboat under the chin as we finished at anchor, and the boat was the same boat, the same color green and the ribs broken in the same places, and under the floor-boards the same freshwater leavings and debris"

The parallelism shows that nothing has changed throughout time - nothing has changed. Mortality, time!

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(Paragraph 13)
Storm symbolizes the feeling of terror as one ages and comes closer to death. His diction ("drama","electrical disturbance", "first feeling of oppression and heat") has destructive connotations.

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Symbol: Lake
Water symbolizes movement, rebirth, redemption and reflection. The father is able to realize his own mortality by revisiting "haunts" of his past with his own son.