People learn from the mistakes they make; Sometimes it takes many mistakes for someone to learn a lesson. In T. Coraghessan Boyle’s “Greasy Lake”, “bad” boys take on many conflicts which ultimately lead to them to realize they are not who they believe they are. The boys would always go on late night car rides while drinking, in search of something “bad” to do. The three boys eventually found a friend’s car, or so they thought. Thinking it would be funny, they decided to mess with the wrong person. This eventually leads to a big fight, which creates many more conflicts in the following story. After facing a night of hell, the narrator and his friends finally realize they aren’t so bad after all due to how they handled the situations they faced …show more content…
They were in search for something fun. The boys were in desperate need to feel some sort of adrenaline. “We went up to the lake because everyone went there, because we wanted to sniff the rich scent of possibility on the breeze, watch a girl take her clothes off and plunge into the festering murk, drink beer, smoke pot, howl at the stars, savor the incongruous full-throated roar of rock and roll against the primeval susurrus of frogs and crickets” (T.Coraghessan, 170). This group of friends would always want to go to Greasy Lake because it was the spot for “bad” people to go and hang out, break the rules, and not care about anything else in the entire world. They believed that they were invincible and no one could stop them. Of course they thought the best option was to drink or do drugs when they had nothing else better to do. “It was 2:00 AM; the bars were closing. There was nothing to do but take a bottle of lemon-flavored gin up to Greasy Lake” (T.Coraghessan, 171). Even when they ran out of things to do, they would automatically decide to go down to Greasy Lake and get wasted. It was always the one option they had in order to