Quotes From Greasy Lake

We were not born to initially understand the responsibilities of adulthood. Everything after birth is a learned behavior, we either visually or physically learn something; we are taught how to walk, how to run, and how to write are own name. As we grow older we are more aware of our surroundings, so we are able to choose from what we find an interest in. Figuring out what we like helps in deciding what we want to learn and what we want to become, all of this is based off the actions we see in other individuals and our surroundings. The narrator in “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle, has altered his characteristics throughout the story, but by the end he comes to the realization of who he wants to be, by accepting and acknowledging his faults, being aware of who is around, and choosing to let go of negative events that occurred in his life, due to this the narrator has become mature.
As the narrator was turning nineteen, an age that is considered to be an adult, change was occurring around him which caused him to lack the maturity needed to take the responsibilities of an adult. “There was a time when courtesy and winning went out of style, when it was good to be bad, when you cultivated decadence like a taste.”(687). The quote in the previous sentence shows a change that occurred in a society and its views, which states that it is …show more content…
I though escape. […] I was gone.” The narrator took off and ran, he kept running, and running until he was waist deep in the “Greasy Lake”, “The water lapped at my waist […] I paused. Listened. […] there were male voices, angry, excited, and the high-pitched ticking of the second car’s engine. I waded deeper, […] As I was about to take the plunge – at the very instant I dropped my shoulder for the first slashing stroke-I blundered into