Grease Lake Lessons
Grease Lake Lessons
There comes a time in many kids life where they want to be bad. They don’t want to be bad to get in trouble and face consequences. They want to be bad because it appears cool. The cool kids sat in the back of class and talked while the teacher was teaching. The cool kids went to parties where there was underage drinking and drugs. The cool kids walked around wearing cool clothes and sunglasses as if they answered to no one and had no care in the world. The cool kids acted out in ways considered bad, and it was cool to be bad. Eventual this fantastical idea of being bad is usual outgrown by progressive steps, or important events that help shape young adults morals. However, Boyle’s characters in in this fiction had a much harsher consequences then drinking underage or taking drugs could provide. Grease Lake is a sordid coming of morals short fiction. Written by T. Coraghessan Boyle, it follows three main characters that thought they were cool, because they think they were bad. The three characters in the story experienced a change in morality, realizing that wanting to be bad by their actions, and the actual acts associated with being 'real' bad boys are two different things. Their road to moral maturity literally ended at Grease Lake, and by the time the night was through, they had each experienced the tangible dangers and realization of the unexpected consequences from trying to be bad.
For the three characters in Boyle’s story, being bad was exactly what Digby, Jeff, and the narrator wanted. They are a group of self proclaimed bad boys, tough guys, the cool kids. The narrator brags, “we wore torn-up leather jackets, slouched around with toothpicks in our mouths, sniffed glue and ether and what somebody claimed was cocaine…we drank gin and grape juice, Tango, Thunderbird, and Bali Hai. We were nineteen. We were bad" (125). Yet, these boys aren’t from the streets. They were young adults from average suburban families, not students
There comes a time in many kids life where they want to be bad. They don’t want to be bad to get in trouble and face consequences. They want to be bad because it appears cool. The cool kids sat in the back of class and talked while the teacher was teaching. The cool kids went to parties where there was underage drinking and drugs. The cool kids walked around wearing cool clothes and sunglasses as if they answered to no one and had no care in the world. The cool kids acted out in ways considered bad, and it was cool to be bad. Eventual this fantastical idea of being bad is usual outgrown by progressive steps, or important events that help shape young adults morals. However, Boyle’s characters in in this fiction had a much harsher consequences then drinking underage or taking drugs could provide. Grease Lake is a sordid coming of morals short fiction. Written by T. Coraghessan Boyle, it follows three main characters that thought they were cool, because they think they were bad. The three characters in the story experienced a change in morality, realizing that wanting to be bad by their actions, and the actual acts associated with being 'real' bad boys are two different things. Their road to moral maturity literally ended at Grease Lake, and by the time the night was through, they had each experienced the tangible dangers and realization of the unexpected consequences from trying to be bad.
For the three characters in Boyle’s story, being bad was exactly what Digby, Jeff, and the narrator wanted. They are a group of self proclaimed bad boys, tough guys, the cool kids. The narrator brags, “we wore torn-up leather jackets, slouched around with toothpicks in our mouths, sniffed glue and ether and what somebody claimed was cocaine…we drank gin and grape juice, Tango, Thunderbird, and Bali Hai. We were nineteen. We were bad" (125). Yet, these boys aren’t from the streets. They were young adults from average suburban families, not students