T. Coraghessan Boyle

In “Greasy Lake”, by T. Coraghessan Boyle, a group of “bad characters” get into some trouble after cruising out at night. Dominick Grace asserts that “The youths in the story are clearly rebels without much cause and without much real need for rebellion. They are clearly not the genuinely bad characters they think they are.” (Grace 2). Throughout the story they try to show that they don’t care about anything through what they wear and through their actions, but that quickly changes after they…

Coraghessan Boyle popular short story “the Greasy Lake” presents itself as a typical “rebel without a cause” short story. Three rebellious teenagers go out looking for trouble on a summer evening and they end up finding it. Boyle explains to us as the narrator that there was once a time when it was “good to be bad”. But as you continually progress through the story…

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…

They were inseparable, ""I love you," he told her, because he did, because there was no feeling like this, no triumph, no high--it was like being immortal and unconquerable, like gloating. And a hundred times a day she said it too. (613)" the two decide to take a trip and go camping after graduation. At this point in the story we are focusing on Jeremy and China's relationship and how strong it seems. We do however notice their naivety in there actions, particularly after they run out of…

Rebellion in “A&P” and “Greasy Lake” Rebellion is an overarching theme in both John Updike’s “A&P” and T. Coraghessan Boyle’s “Greasy Lake.” A sense of rebellion and a primitive urge to break free of society’s expectations and standards as well a shared sense of antiestablishmentarianism afflicts both narrators. However, the motives for their behavior are different, and they are drawn to a rebellious lifestyle for different reasons. For Sammy from “A&P,” he decides to rebel because of the appeal…

Greasy Lake: A Dangerous Journey to Discovery “Greasy Lake” is a chronologically written, coming of age tale, by notable author, T. Coraghessan Boyle. In this short story the reader is transported to a place and time that served as a pinnacle awakening in the lives of three nineteen year old young men. Where the reader is allowed to follow our un-named narrator and his friends through a dark journey of events that unfold one fateful summer night. The main characters, who can only be adequately…

Satellite” by T. Coraghessan Boyle is a story about a couple, Mallory and Paul, in graduate school that have spent their first night of their short-term summer fighting with each other. While in the middle of one of their fights, the narrator, Paul, gets hit on the shoulder by some hard object from the sky. The object that causes interruption in the couples’ fight shows us how not being able to change your point of view in a situation can end up causing more problems and no room for change.…

As the narrator enters the lake, he beings feel trapped by it, “The ooze sucking at my sneakers. (Boyle 5)” This contrasts with the voluntary attraction he had felt to the lake and the life of “badness” and to his instinct to escape into the lake, because he can no longer leave, if he did, he would be spotted by the men. In the midst of the turmoil of…

that focused on a short story out of the “T.C. Boyle Stories” book. The final paper I wrote was an exploratory paper on a subject from one of my last three papers. After writing these papers I have improved as a writer greatly but I still believe that I can improve. As I stated earlier the first paper I wrote was a narrative paper on an incident that changed my life. The most life changing moment in my life was when I suffered a career ending…

T. Coraghessan Boyle’s “Greasy Lake” is a timeless tale that will leave you on the edge of your seat if it was a movie, but in this case this short story will have your eyes glued to the page. We will discover Boyle’s arrangement of incidents in this story as he explain the plot from the beginning that talks about “ There was a time “ Which clearly states that this story was a flashback of the pass. The story begins talking about a small group of teenagers that think they are the baddest things…