Essays Tagged: "Greasy Lake & Other Stories"
"Greasy Lake", by T. Coraghessan Boyle, and the writing techniques that were used to develop the theme and meaning.
ce, along with others that are quite similar, I have established a connection with the short story, Greasy Lake, by T. Coraghessan Boyle. The story is about three teenage friends and their coming of a ... ion of the headlights, trees crowding the asphalt in a black unbroken wall: that was the way out to Greasy Lake(1)" explains how they are leaving the lighted areas and going to the dark places, having ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Setting and Characterization in "Greasy Lake" by T.Coraghessan.
Setting and Characterization in "Greasy Lake"The path to becoming an adult is lined with a variety of childhood and adolescent experi ... and adolescent experiences, some more painful than others. In T. Coraghessen Boyle's short story, "Greasy Lake," Boyle masterfully uses the setting and the protagonist's experience to teach us an old ... clear view of what it really means to be a man.Thereafter, the boys drive up to the main setting of Greasy Lake, and provoke who is described as a "very bad character" (130). The subsequent events tha ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"Greasy Lake" by Jack London and "To Build a Fire" by T. Coraghessan Boyle.
ttings both show that something bad will happen are "To Build a Fire", written by Jack London, and "Greasy Lake", written by T. Coraghessan Boyle. Certain aspects of both these stories give the reader ... der wonder if the narrator means "dark" as in there is no light or "dark in a sort of sinister way."Greasy Lake" also takes place in a rather dark and ominous setting. Much of the story takes place at ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Conflict Within
In "Greasy Lake," a short story written by T. Corghessan Boyle, three young men come into conflict while ... for self-exploration can be seen within the setting to which takes place at a local hangout called Greasy Lake. Every town has a local hangout where everyone goes and in a sense is a place for most y ... ut come to find out that it was actually someone else. Driving the car was a "very bad character in greasy jeans and engineer boots" (130), as well as "man of action"(131), who did not take kindly to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Regression to Childhood in "Greasy Lake"
(I was nineteen, a mere child, an infant, and here in the space of five minutes I'd struck down one greasy character and blundered into the waterlogged carcass of another.)" (7)After mistakenly interr ... the waterlogged carcass of another.)" (7)After mistakenly interrupting the romantic interlude of a greasy man and his girlfriend at Greasy Lake, the evening becomes a succession of negative events fo ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Analysis of setting's influence on behavior in "Greasy Lake" by TC Boyle
After doing some research, Greasy Lake is not an actual place, but a "spin-off" of a Bruce Springsteen song. The story was writ ... ated the styles retro to the mid 1960's. No matter what era we live in, however, there is always a "Greasy Lake" anywhere on Earth.That being said, I refer to a place called "Inspiration Point". The o ... in the story wouldn't be so bad if they were at Grandma's house, or at church. The name in itself, "Greasy Lake", releases the essence of, for lack of a better term, badness. The filth, the muck, the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"Greasy Lake" by T. Coraghessan Boyle
In "Greasy Lake" by T. Coraghessan Boyle, the author illustrates the journey towards adulthood for three ... night winds down, the boys head to a disgustingly filthy place where the "bad" go to be bad called Greasy Lake. This begins a series of terrible events where the boys beat someone almost to the point ... vents eventually lead the narrator to an epiphany that being bad isn't what it is cracked up to be."Greasy Lake" is written in first person point of view. This is important because this view point ill ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Setting the Mood in Greasy Lake
Setting the Mood in Greasy Lake "Greasy Lake" is a short story that gradually unfolds as the narrator's n ... ddenly goes from bad to worse. It all begins when the three "bad characters" mistake a car at Greasy Lake for one of their friends. Although the three soon find out that they have been mistaken, ... on of the story. The prevailing gloomy mood and action are evolved through detailed descriptions of Greasy Lake and its surrounding areas. The water in Greasy Lake is constantly referred to as mucky a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Greasy Lake's Narrator
Greasy lake's Narrator People go through many changes during their lifetime. I have gone thr ... ne through changes, and everyone will go through changes. The narrator from t. coraghessan boyle's "greasy lake" is no exception to this rule. From the beginning to the end of one night alone we ... e end of the story his views have changed. He is the type of person whom is responsible for "greasy lake's" name being changed from the Indian name "wakan", which refers to the clar ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The Significance of Setting in “Greasy Lake”
The title alone told me that this story had some amount of darkness to it, but the setting of "Greasy Lake" is what eluded me as to what would happen next in the story. The author, T. Coraghessan ... t the reader could make relatively correct assumptions about forthcoming happenings. The setting of Greasy Lake is significant in that it foreshadows what is about to come about in the story. It keeps ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Greasy Lake Analysis
Greasy Lake AnalysisHow does the narrator change throughout "Greasy Lake"?From the beginning of the ... d to be bad", like giving an excuse for his own wrongs.Later on the night him and his gang go up to Greasy Lake as usual, originally called Waken by the Indians, which is "clarity of its waters". Howe ... saw a metallic blue '57 Chevy, which they mistaken as Tony Lovett's, but in fact the car of a "bad greasy character…a man of action". This led to violent subsequent events later on in the stor ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Analysis of "Greasy Lake"
In T. Coraghessan Boyle's "Greasy Lake" three boys become young men on the third, boring night of their summer vacation when th ... 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 ... the form of vehicles. For example, early in the story, the narrator describes the car they drive to Greasy Lake as an old station wagon, obviously not the "ride" of a true tough-guy."Greasy Lake" is a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers