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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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    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 boys are seeking to gain the respect and honor that man hood has for them. They thought that bad was good of course in that time it was the cool thing to do‚ they went cruising around the strip sixty seven times trying to look like bad boys. Then all of a sudden Digby (one of the narrator’s friends) fought for the wheel because he saw his friend’s car at greasy lake so they thought to play a prank on him they flashed their lights and honk the horn to look like the police. But they

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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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    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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    Irony In Greasy Lake

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    "Greasy Lake" by Tom Coraghessan Boyle‚ is the story of a group of 19 year old adolescents‚ searching for a situation that will proclaim them as "bad boys" and how their minds change and develop. Tom Boyle uses the theme of being bad by showing different characters to symbolize someone always trying to be more than they really are. In this story‚ there are many symbolism that the author uses. The term "Greasy" means messy‚ dirty‚ and not clean. The term "Lake" means clean‚ pure‚ and blue. It is

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    Greasy Lake Narrator

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    Greasy Lake is the story of three friends who are potray themselves to be bad characters. Until they run into a situation where they question‚ just how bad they are. It can easily be identify as the changing from boys to men‚ in the beginning of the story the narrator and his friends were compared to nature‚ which can relate to the many ironic events that happen to the narrator. Some of The circumstances that the narrator in "Greasy Lake" finds himself in‚ are the same

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    Greasy Lake Essay 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

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    Greasy Lake Summary

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    JUST A LAKE In "Greasy Lake" by T. Coraghessan Boyle‚ the setting is a character that changes throughout the story‚ much as the narrator changes and grows through his experiences. Greasy Lake is a place where good boys go to learn to be bad. This story is about a time "when you cultivated decadence like a taste." (Boyle 144) You can tell by the first few paragraphs that you must pay great attention to the setting in this story to fully grasp what Boyle is trying to convey. Greasy Lake is a world

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