As practical jokes go, this one almost barely disqualifies as a harmless prank: the entirety of their plan consists of jumping inside the station wagon driven to the lake by the narrator, flashing its lights and honking its horn. As far as pranks go, this one should hardly have the impact of being a ritual of manhood. The owner of the car is not unknown. His fall to the ground is highly suggestive of only one conclusion: the narrator has just killed someone. The key moment in the story, it can be argued, occurs next.
The narrator , Jeff, and Digby do not immediately flee in the face of the possibility of homicide. It is not the kind of mercy that is desirable as the three move to work out their mixture of aggression and sexuality on the girl. The arrival of another car quickly causes a dispersal of the would-be gangbangers, however. The narrator chooses to escape by driving straight into the lake where the night just gets weirder.
What should his brief underwater getaway bring him into contact with but an actual dead body which sends him scurrying away in terror? The dispersal results in the congealing of shared boyhood nightmare as the trio manage to meet up again in the woods, hidden from the suddenly gazing eye of reconstituted greasy character.
Also, the setting can be viewed as symbolic of the bad behavior that occurs around it. Greasy Lake symbolizes the narrator's baptism into adulthood and maturity. After a fight in which the narrator thinks he has killed Bobby with a tire iron, he ends up in the lake and encounters a dead body. Symbol for innocence At one point, the narrator and the other boys go to the greasy lake and mistake a car found there with the car of a person they knew.
In an attempt to scare the man in the car , the honk at the car and they realize after honking that the car did not belong to someone they knew. The story of " Greasy Lake " breaks down the perception of what is cool and bad and shows the reality of the situation.
Most likely set in the 60's, these young men of privilege think about rebelling but are unwilling to give up the safety and security of their white, suburban life. What is the tone of Greasy Lake? As curriculum developer and educator, Kristine Tucker has enjoyed the plethora of English assignments she's read and graded!
Her experiences as vice-president of an energy consulting firm have given her the opportunity to explore business writing and HR. Tucker has a BA and holds Ohio teaching credentials. How to Write a Survival Story. I was there one night, late, in the company of two dangerous characters. They were both expert in the social graces, quick with a sneer, able to manage a Ford with lousy shocks over a rutted and gutted blacktop road at eighty-five while rolling a joint as compact as a tootsie-pop stick.
They were slick and quick and they wore their mirror shades at breakfast and dinner, in the shower, in closets and caves. In short, they were bad. I drove. It was early June, the air soft as a hand on your cheek, the third night of summer vacation.
It was two A. There was nothing to do but take a bottle of lemon-flavored gin up to Greasy Lake. The taillights of a single car winked at us as we swung into the dirt lot with its tufts of weed and washboard corrugations: 57 Chevy, mint, metallic blue. On the far side of the lot, like the exoskeleton of some gaunt chrome insect, a chopper leaned against its kickstand. And that was it for excitement: some junkie half-wit biker and a car freak pumping his girlfriend.
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