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    Both Tim O’Brien’s "The Things They Carried" and T. Coraghessan Boyle’s "Greasy Lake" display characters’ similar reactions to violence‚ but in different settings and circumstances. In "The Things They Carried‚" Fist Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is a soldier in the Vietnam War who finds solace and escape in fantasies of a young woman from home. One of Cross’s soldiers dies due to his daydreaming and forces him to abandon these fantasies. In "Greasy Lake‚" the main character finds enjoyment in picking

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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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    What It Takes To Be Bad What does it mean to be a teenager? Teenagers are trying to find their identities and fit in. T. C. Boyle’s story “Greasy Lake” has three rebellious teenagers looking for trouble on a summer evening and finding it. Boyle mentions through the narrator‚ that it was at a time when it was “good to be bad”‚ but a closer analysis of the story shows that the three boys are truly lost within their own egos. The story shows the changing culture of the time‚ something these young

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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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    young man’s life for him to break a barrier of reality to go from invincibility to mortality. They have to take that leap forward gradually‚ but as they do they will make mistakes along the way and have to learn from the bad ones. The short story “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle is about three young men who have to break that barrier of reality in one horrible night by making mistake after mistake‚ only they have to learn from their mistakes quickly or they wont get out of their bad situation. There

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    The Darkness of "Greasy Lake" It is almost clear that the story of "Greasy Lake" takes place in the 1960’s‚ with the style of clothing‚ the preference of music and the careless attitudes of the characters that spend the night in the darkness of "Greasy Lake". This was a time when smoking pot‚ drinking beer‚ and hanging out was the cool thing to do. The story of "Greasy Lake" being in the 60’s‚ with the random music of rock n roll‚ reggae and misfit attitudes clearly attributes to Boyles statement

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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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    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 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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    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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