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The book starts out with three teenagers trying to grasp and believe they understand the architectural motifs of becoming a man in 20 century. It is the third day of summer vacation and the three set out with venom coursing through their young veins. All three boys headed to Greasy Lake with the feeling of power, strength and a common belief of invincibility. They are not your typical teenage boys, oh no these boys are bad and they want the world to know it. 'We wore torn-up leather jackets; slouched around with toothpicks in our mouths, sniffed glue..we drank gin and grape juice, Tango, Thunderbird, and Bali Hoi. We were nineteen. We were bad.' They were their own gang with their own initiation, with their own sense of morality as they stopped on the gas pedal up to Greasy Lake. They were dangerous and they knew it but their commitment to self-was about to catch up to them in a destructive and revelatory way. To Greasy Lake with its murky and muddy banks filled with shards of broken glass glistening in the moon's light. Their minds swimming with marijuana and alcohol as they pull into the parking lot only to see two vehicles “the exoskeleton of some gaunt chrome insect, a chopper leaned against its kickstand.” In addition, a, “57 Chevy, mint, metallic blue' No excitement, “expect some junkie halfwit biker and a car freak pumping his girlfriend.” All was lost they thought when they believe they see a friends car. The night is now blossoming fully of promise as they pull in behind the car and begin to honk the horn, flash the lights and yell obscenities like out of an old 50s movie. “For all we know we might even catch a glimpse of some little fox’s tit. And then we could slap backs with red-faced Tony, roughhouse a little, and go on to new heights of adventure and daring.” Greasy Lake Short Story Full Text Pdf Converter
..Download file to see next pagesCoraghessan Boyle At night, we went up to Greasy Lake. Whatever it was we were looking for, we weren’t about to find it at Greasy Lake. Coraghessan Boyle. Autocollage 2008. There was a time when courtesy and winning ways went out of style, when it was good to be bad, when you cultivated. Greasy Lake has 24 ratings and 2 reviews. Greasy Lake is a 1988 American short drama film based on the short story 'Greasy Lake' by T. Coraghessan Boyle.It was directed by Damian Harris and stars Eric Stoltz and James Spader. Greasy Lake study guide contains a biography of T.C. Boyle, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. About Greasy Lake Greasy Lake Summary.
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In the short story Greasy Lake written by T.C. Boyle, the story is about three friends who believe they are “bad”. On a particular night they go out looking for trouble, and trouble is what they find. The tone of this story is serious, dark, and very graphic. This story is full of literary devices. Metaphors and similes come thick and fast on the shores of Greasy Lake, and Boyle never contents himself with one when he can offer two or three. The comparisons for their abundance, are neither aimless nor without purpose; they enable us to see the referent from strategic points of view. For this essay I will analyze the unnamed narrator whom is the protagonist in the story. The story opens up with the narrator describing…show more content…
The narrator references the history of Greasy Lake saying the Indians referred to it as Wakan (clarity of the waters). But now the narrator describes the lake as fetid and murky, the mud banks glittering with broken glass and strewn with beer cans and charred remains of bonfires, As the boys pull up in there parents station wagon they notice a 57’ Chevy and a Chopper leaned against its kickstand. Digby misidentifies the Chevy as one of there friends cars and they start honking their horns and beaming their bright headlights at the car in order to interrupt the mischievous act Tony has going on, hopefully pumping his girlfriend. All three hop out the car. The driver gets out and mistakenly loses the keys in the grass in the process, walking up to the car they notice there is a difference in that 57’ Chevy and that of their friends Tony’s but its to late. The cars owner, a real greasy character by the name of Bobby, is a man of action who is indeed looking for a fight. He gets the best of all three friends until the narrator gets hold of a tire iron. The tire iron brings a turn of events. The narrator hits the greasy character on the ear and believes he has killed him. The girl gets out of the 57’ Chevy,
In the short story Greasy Lake written by T.C. Boyle, the story is about three friends who believe they are “bad”. On a particular night they go out looking for trouble, and trouble is what they find. The tone of this story is serious, dark, and very graphic. This story is full of literary devices. Metaphors and similes come thick and fast on the shores of Greasy Lake, and Boyle never contents himself with one when he can offer two or three. The comparisons for their abundance, are neither aimless nor without purpose; they enable us to see the referent from strategic points of view. For this essay I will analyze the unnamed narrator whom is the protagonist in the story. The story opens up with the narrator describing…show more content…
The narrator references the history of Greasy Lake saying the Indians referred to it as Wakan (clarity of the waters). But now the narrator describes the lake as fetid and murky, the mud banks glittering with broken glass and strewn with beer cans and charred remains of bonfires, As the boys pull up in there parents station wagon they notice a 57’ Chevy and a Chopper leaned against its kickstand. Digby misidentifies the Chevy as one of there friends cars and they start honking their horns and beaming their bright headlights at the car in order to interrupt the mischievous act Tony has going on, hopefully pumping his girlfriend. All three hop out the car. The driver gets out and mistakenly loses the keys in the grass in the process, walking up to the car they notice there is a difference in that 57’ Chevy and that of their friends Tony’s but its to late. The cars owner, a real greasy character by the name of Bobby, is a man of action who is indeed looking for a fight. He gets the best of all three friends until the narrator gets hold of a tire iron. The tire iron brings a turn of events. The narrator hits the greasy character on the ear and believes he has killed him. The girl gets out of the 57’ Chevy,