The repetition of “no years” was very powerful in this piece. It represented the similarities between the two occasions and how it seemed as if “no years” had passed. It felt the same, but it was different. He was his father and his son was him from previous years. His confusion of whose rod he was truly behind while fishing was surreal. He couldn’t believe that he was in the act of being his father; at times finding himself repeating the same actions and phrases. His examples of these incidents created a sense of parallelism between the two experiences. It was almost as if there were no differences between the past and present as he went on to explain what had and was occurring.
One thing in particular that reminded him things weren’t truly the same was when the camp received new boats. He spoke about the old boats making “a sleepy sound across the lake” while the new boats “made a petulant, irritable sound”. He talked about missing the purrs of the old two-cylinder boats and how they concocted the sounds of summer.
His descriptive language and use of parallelisms helped to create a feeling of nostalgia. He was very specific in describing his feelings about re-visiting the lake. He had no problem with expressing his confusion of which role he played at certain points in time. He explained things as if time stood still and he was recapping what he had seen. This reading was very refreshing in respect to the construction of short stories. It was an interesting piece.
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