T. Coraghessan Boyle

The mysterious lure toward the bad-boy mentality caused the 3 to lose sight of who they really are; which was the cause of their mishaps and troubles. The Greasy Lake represents this bad-boy mentality since it’s the “place to go” for all of the greasy characters. The only way to truly become the bad-boys they want to be, they have to visit the Greasy Lake. The 3 boys were indicated to be smart young men with futures in college. Since this was the age where the bad-boys became cool and…

three are nineteen years old and the narrator considers them ‘bad characters.’ According to Michael Walker’s on Boyle’s ‘Greasy Lake’ and the Moral Failure of Postmodernism, “the narrator of this story is not only as old as Boyle himself, but has much the same background. Boyle, born in 1948, would have been 19 in 1967,...” so the events that the narrator goes through while may not exactly be an…

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…

grown filthy and trash filled (Boyle 1). This transformation is not unlike the characters’, they are wealthy, highly educated, and, if they wanted to be, they could be respected citizens, however, they dress in torn clothes, drink excessively, and make every attempt at “badness”. The allure of the Lake is described reverently: “We went up to the lake because everyone went there, because we wanted to snuff the rich scent of possibility on the breeze...This was nature. (Boyle 2)” The narrator’s…

could also pertain to “climate and even the social, psychological, or spiritual state of the participants” (Literature, Glossary of Literary Terms, G26). The significance of setting is especially prevalent in the short story, Greasy Lake, by T.C. Boyle. Regarding the setting, though the time period is never outright mentioned it can be inferred form references used by the narrator that it is around the 1960’s when the story takes place, but this is is not the sole…

create the confusion between the perception and the reality. Inspired by Bruce Springsteen’s “Spirit In The Night “, T.C. Boyle gave us an insight experience in the life of teenagers in the 1960s through his short story, “Greasy Lake”. It’s an insightful and exhilarating tale of how perception and reality play crucial roles in the teenage years. Throughout the story, T.C. Boyle elaborated how being rebellious by carrying on a crime spree and living a carefree life without realizing the…

T. C. Boyle’s “Greasy Lake” tells the story of a teenage boy who drives his mother’s Bel Air to Greasy Lake with his friends, Jeff and Digby, coming across a motorcycle and a car that they think belongs to their friend, Tony. Their descent into anarchy begins when a man that is not Tony jumps out of the car and starts fighting, winning with ease, until the protagonist knocks him out with a tire iron and believes that he is dead. The boys, acting solely on primal urges, come close to raping the…

Within the story “Carnal Knowledge” by T. Coraghessan Boyle, ideological values create an inner conflict between Jim and himself. He has to figure out what is more important to him: giving up the values in which he has grown up with his entire life or Alena Jorgensen. While he may not notice it as dramatically as the readers do, he is giving up his entire self just so that he can be exactly what Alena wants him to be. Jim is giving up his identity for the one she created for him. While Alena’s…

In the short story, "The Love of My Life", T. Coraghessan Boyle explores a tragic event of a murder of a child. It begins with young highschool couple, China and Jeremy. Both have an outstanding education, Jeremy was set to attend Brown, while China was chosen in her top-choice school in Binghamton. During the camping trip, China and Jeremy conceived a child, even though both of them are eager to avoid pregnancy. China decided to keep the child at first without seeking medical attention to hide…

Channel 4 who was able to pre-sell it on the back of the success of Shallow Grave. The film went on to take £13 million worldwide and is the second highest grossing British film of all time - after Four Weddings and a Funeral. Danny Boyle thoroughly researched heroin addiction for the film - he met a lot of addicts and got them to talk to the actors and held "cookery classes" where the actors learnt how to cook up. Ewan McGregor also read all the books he could find…