Greasy Lake was a short story written by T.C. Boyle with a deeper meaning in it rather than just being a good read. The short story shows an idea of coming of age. Coming of age means to mature through events and have a different mindset. The characters go from bad boys to wanting to be good. This is due to the behavior changes of the narrator and his friends before the night, through the night, and in the morning.
In the beginning of Greasy Lake, the 3 guys, Digby, Jeff, and the narrator had one goal. To be “bad boys” and find trouble in any way possible and they sure found trouble. When the boys have nothing to do in the night, they go to Greasy Lake, a spot to hangout. “We went up to the lake because everyone went there, because we wanted to snuff the rich sent of possibility on the breeze, watch a girl take off her clothes and plunge into the festering murk, drink beer, smoke pot, howl at the stars, savor the incongruous …show more content…
In fact his mom’s Bel Air but to their surprise the man had smashed the car to extract revenge and the narrator thought there would be no way to take the car back to his mom. He didn’t know what to do. He contemplated suicide to get out of the mess he had gotten into. When there they saw two girls pull up, they asked if the boys would like to drink and do drugs with them. The girls thinking the boys were bad thought they would want to but the main character turns them down. This is a major part of the plot and a part when the narrators prove to be a dynamic character. A dynamic character is a character in a story that undergoes a crucial change, such as a change in personality or attitude ("Explanation of: 'Greasy Lake' by T. C. Boyle."). After turning them down the girls ask if the boys saw their friend. The boys answer “no” while thinking if the body they found was their friend. The narrator, terrified, did not say a word about it. The boys then go home and the story halts to a
In the beginning of Greasy Lake, the 3 guys, Digby, Jeff, and the narrator had one goal. To be “bad boys” and find trouble in any way possible and they sure found trouble. When the boys have nothing to do in the night, they go to Greasy Lake, a spot to hangout. “We went up to the lake because everyone went there, because we wanted to snuff the rich sent of possibility on the breeze, watch a girl take off her clothes and plunge into the festering murk, drink beer, smoke pot, howl at the stars, savor the incongruous …show more content…
In fact his mom’s Bel Air but to their surprise the man had smashed the car to extract revenge and the narrator thought there would be no way to take the car back to his mom. He didn’t know what to do. He contemplated suicide to get out of the mess he had gotten into. When there they saw two girls pull up, they asked if the boys would like to drink and do drugs with them. The girls thinking the boys were bad thought they would want to but the main character turns them down. This is a major part of the plot and a part when the narrators prove to be a dynamic character. A dynamic character is a character in a story that undergoes a crucial change, such as a change in personality or attitude ("Explanation of: 'Greasy Lake' by T. C. Boyle."). After turning them down the girls ask if the boys saw their friend. The boys answer “no” while thinking if the body they found was their friend. The narrator, terrified, did not say a word about it. The boys then go home and the story halts to a