Review Of 'Greasy Lake' By Coraghessan Boyle

Cool Teenagers

“Greasy lake,” by Coraghessan Boyle, the short story focuses on three nineteen-year-old boys. They want to be cool and bad character. They are planning to celebrate their boring summer vacation night in the greasy lake. Boys are already drink beer, some marijuana. They reach at the greasy lake at 2 a.m. They see one of their friend’s car in the lake. They try to embarrass their friend because he is there with his girlfriend. The boys wanted to be bad with his friend because they are dangerous. Finally when they realize that it is not their friend Tony’s car it was too late for them. A man come out from the car and beginning fight with them. Middle of the fighting narrator gets a tire iron and hit the greasy character. They think that the man is dead. That girlfriend of this man sees everything and she come to fight with narrator, his friends Jeff and Digby. Then, they boys try to rape with the girl, but they fails. A car

Now, he is more mature and express his feelings perfectly and organized way. Older narrator uses educated language in the story. He uses lot of phase in the story. One of the common phrase in the story is “good to be bad”. He also uses the “bad character”, “cool”, and “dangerous words many times in the story. He uses slang word fox, animal in the story. Some short and choppy sentences helps the reader to get the clear idea of the narrator thoughts. Some sentences are long and descriptive. The descriptive sentences are nicely organized which gives the reader a clear image of the story. Some similes of the story is “like a jab of intuition” when the narrator lost the key he understand very quickly what happen next with them. The Greasy character “face like a Toltec mask” when he laid out Digby. “Suddenly a raw torn shriek cut through me like all the juice in all the electric chairs in the country “when the bad character hit the narrator he feels like