A Secret Lost In The Water Summary

Personally, I think the meaning of the short story “A Secret Lost in the Water by Roch Carrier is that we don’t appreciate our parents enough in what they are trying to teach us. While going through school and growing up, we tend to forget the lessons our parents and families have taught us. So, when we get to be an adult, a lot of our memories of our younger years have slipped our minds. Towards the end of the story, a farmer shows the boy the same alder branch his father had used to find water under the ground, and when the boy tried to use his own skills to find water, he had lost his fathers knowledge to find water sources. The farmer says, “Don’t feel sorry”, […] “nowadays fathers can’t pass anything on to the next generation”. This shows