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    Greasy Lake Summary

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    Greasy Lake T.C Boyle is and will continue to be a respected name in the world of literature. His short stories especially deserve special mention. The title story of his ‘Greasy Lake’ collection is one of the better-known short stories. It has been studied in schools and colleges‚ and there are numerous academic resources analyzing it. Literary critics have called the story inspiration and eye opening‚ and they are accolades well deserved. In this paper‚ the writer shall only offer a summary of

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    Smells Like Teen Spirit: An analysis of the characters in T. C. Boyle’s Greasy Lake Three nineteen year-old boys drunk with alcohol and high on life on the third night of summer back from college are looking for a place to let loose and be themselves. They make the drive past the strip and into a place where there the “trees crowding the asphalt in a black unbroken wall” (Boyle 125). It was a place of muddy and murky waters where broken glass bottles‚ beer cans‚ and charred bonfire remains were

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    intertwined with human nature. In the story "Greasy Lake" by T. Coraghessan Boyle‚ the author portrays this through the use of a lake by demonstrating its significance and relationship to the characters. At one time‚ the Greasy Lake was something of beauty and cleanliness‚ but then came to be the exact opposite. Through his writing‚ Boyle demonstrates how the setting can be a direct reflection of the characters and the experiences they encounter. The lake itself plays a major role throughout the story

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    Greasy Lake

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    Annotated Bibliography Boyle T. Coraghessan. “Greasy Lake.” Literature: Craft and Voice. Eds. Nicholas Delbanco and Allen Cheuse. New York: McGraw-Hill‚ 2009. 77-82. Print. This Book has a interview done on T.C Boyle. In this interview he talks about how he wrote a “Greasy Lake”. During the interview he says “he does not revise his work at the end‚ but how he does it as he goes along. He also states how it comes natural to him and how the plots of his writing are organic. "If The River Was

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    In the short story essay Greasy Lake by T. Coraghessan Boyle‚ a literary devise applied is setting. The three different types of setting are physical‚ historical and geographic. He employs them threw out the essay giving us detailed information on what is going on. Boyle describes the lake as to be a place where some rather not go anymore do to its physical condition. The lake is physically described as “fetid and murky‚ the mud banks glittering with broken glass and strewn with beer cans and the

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    Greasy Lake The saying “what goes around comes around” is the perfect saying for Greasy Lake by T. Coraghessan Boyle. This short story shows you the exact meaning of that saying. Now would you say that everything that happen in the end was good enough for all of their actions…no; but you can say its karma. Of course you cannot agree with anything that they did and you cannot really sympathize with him but a part of you may think ‘okay I guess they kind of got what they deserve.’ After reading this

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    Analysis of "Greasy Lake"

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    In T. Coraghessan Boyle ’s "Greasy Lake" three boys become young men on the third‚ boring night of their summer vacation when they go to the muddy and shiny lake of Greasy Lake where ordinary men are faced with an extraordinary situation‚ a much greater force than them that cannot be dealt with and this forces the boys to see reality. Thinking that life is like a "box of chocolates" is not always the best way to view life in respect to the problems and decisions that must be faced by man‚ but at

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    Symbolism in Greasy Lake

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    "Greasy Lake" "Greasy Lake" by Tom Coraghessan Boyle‚ is the story of a group of adolescents‚ searching for the one situation that will proclaim them as bad boys and how their minds change. As the story begins‚ the narrator gives the impression that he feels he and the others boys should have taken notice of some obvious clues about themselves. These clues would have led them to the conclusion that they were far from the bad guys they wished to be. However‚ the oblivious teenagers ignore these

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    Greasy Lake Analysis

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    The story is written as a recollection of the event at Greasy Lake‚ so the narrator has a bit of an intro on what happened‚ and within it he states things like “We were all dangerous characters then” and “We were bad”. Now generally people who are truly “bad” do not come right out and say it. They let their actions speak for their words and allow the person judging their behavior to form their own opinion. The narrator calling himself “bad” is the first of many red flags that he was just trying

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    Greasy Lake by T. Coraghessan Boyle and A&P by John Updike are both stories about coming of age. Over the generations there have been many changes. In these two short-stories it proves that‚ although it takes place in different generations‚ coming of age is still a time to prove one’s self. A&P is about a nineteen-year-old boy that works at a local grocery store. The main character‚ Sammy‚ stands up against his manager in an attempt to defend and hopefully impress the girls he was attracted to

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