This document provides biographical information about author E.B. White and summarizes one of his essay collections. It notes that White was born in 1899 in New York, attended Cornell University, and published many famous works including Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little. The collection of essays is organized by subject but was compiled by someone other than White. It provides short summaries of three essays in the collection that use descriptive language and explore themes of change.

1. e - s - s - a - y - so - fe. b. white Karri Buchta

2. e . b . white( 1 8 9 9 - 1 9 8 5 ) Elwyn Brooks White was born on July 11, 1899, in Mount Vernon, New York, the son of a piano manufacturer, Samuel Tilly White, and Jessie Hart. He attended Cornell University and graduated in 1921. His other works include: Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of The Swan, and One Man’s Meat. (My book of choice is simply a compilation of his most popular essays) While in college and after graduation, White began to receive prestigious writing awards like the Gold Medal for Essays and Criticism from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1960, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for his children's books in 1970. Essays of E. B. White is a collection of his wonderful essays organized in no particular order, but grouped into sections based on subject matter (I The Farm, II The Planet, III The City). I don’t believe the book as a whole was comprised by the man himself, rather just a compilation organized by another.

3. style a n a lysis “Democrats do a lot of bellyaching about the press’s being predominately Republican, but they don’t do the one thing that could correct the situation: go into the publishing business. Democrats say that they haven’t got that kind of money, but I’m afraid they don’t have that kind of temperament, or perhaps, nerve.” p.104 – Bedfellows There had been no years between the ducking of this dragonfly and the other on—the one that was part of my memory. I looked at the boy, who was silently watching his fly, and it was my hands that held his rod, my eyes watching. I felt dizzy and didn’t know which rod I was at the end of. p.248 – Once More To The Lake StyleArgument PurposeFigurative Language

4. “For some weeks now I have been engaged in dispersing the contents of this apartment, trying to persuade hundreds of inanimate objects to scatter and leave me alone. It is not a simple matter. I am impressed by the reluctance of one’s worldly goods to go out again into the world. During September I kept hoping that some morning, as by magic, all books, pictures, records, chairs, beds, curtains, lamps, china, glass, utensils, keepsakes would drain away from my feet, like the outgoing tide, leaving me standing silent on a bare beach. But this did not happen.” p.3 – Good-bye to Forty-Eighth Street Diction Imagery Syntax Rhetorical Technique

5. "The sexual revolution began with Man's discovery that he was not attractive to Woman, as such.… His masculine appearance not only failed to excite Woman, but in many cases it only served to bore her. The result was that Man found it necessary to develop attractive personal traits to offset his dull appearance. He learned to say funny things. He learned to smoke, and blow smoke rings. He learned to earn money. This would have been a solution to his difficulty, but in the course of making himself attractive to Woman by developing himself mentally, he had inadvertently become so intelligent an animal that he saw how comical the whole situation was.” -from parody of “Is Sex Necessary” study of the subconscious (1920s)