“Greasy Lake” by T.C. Boyle follows a group of well read college students desperate to portray themselves as hardened badasses by drinking cheap alcohol and cruising around town till the break of dawn. On the third night of summer vacation, the boys fid themselves at Greasy Lake going toe to toe with a shady character they mistakenly identified as a friend. The ever-worsening situation results in the shady individual collapsing from a tire iron to the head, sending the group of boys into a destructive fervor. The boys narrowly escape persecution from a group of true greasers by plunging into the woods and waters of Greasy Lake where the narrator brushes shoulders with a water logged carcass and emerges changed by his experience. “Greasy Lake’s”
Have you ever gone above and beyond to make yourself proud?Well in the book Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac you read about a navajo marine and his time in war. His name is Ned he was first sent to a boarding school for navajos and then he signed up to fight in war. In the book it tells about the many mixed emotions Ned has about being a marine. Ned wanted to be a marine for a while. He realized he wanted to be in the marines during boarding school.
In this quote on page 24 it says in the detail that Ned had been punished which we can tell from his injuries and a boy in the same situation helping Ned telling him something to keep him strong or sane. “I staggered outside and fell down to my knees. My vision was blurry and my lips were cut and bleeding. Tommy Nez, who was the first friend I made in school, lifted me up to my feet.
The text follows a lost boy who was sucked into a perilous journey and facing situations where a split second could be the difference between life and death. This essay will be about how Salva, the main character in Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water is able to survive and overcome a variety of challenges through his hard work, relationships, and perseverance. Salva survives the first few challenges because of his hard work. Readers learn that hard work saves Salva’s life when he is left alone in the barn by a group of refugees but labors for the woman who own’s the barn so as not to burden her.
In the short story “The Man Who Jumped into the Water” by Laurie Colwin, Charlie Hartz, who is a rich man builds a swimming pool that’s shorter than the size of an Olympic pool. The neighbors are always over and swimming with him or just sitting by the pool. He is always involved in the neighbor’s lives including the narrator’s sister, Willis, Jeremy, and the narrator herself. Throughout, the story Charlie tries to help the kid 's situations as they come up.
Addiction to substances such as alcohol often leads to depressive mental states and the destruction of any sound relationships. ‘The water was dark and went forever down’ is a 1987 short story written by time Winton which explores the journey of a young Australian girl with a mentally ill mother. A 14-year-old Australian girl who is referred to as ‘the girl’ has traveled to a beachside cottage on holiday with her mentally ill mother. The girl is forced to be independent as her mother’s addiction to alcohol has disabled her from properly caring for her daughter. The girl seeks refuge in swimming which lets her avoid the mental battles posed by her home life.
‘The water was dark’ concludes a young girl how’s love for swimming helps her escape her incapable, depressive mother. “Maybe that’s why I started swimming, she thought, to stop her from drowning me” is the thought process the young girl has. The meaning behind this is that instead of drowning by her mothers comments and habits, she found another world through swimming to have somewhere to go when she found herself slipping away. When she realises that “she didn’t love it (swimming) the way the others did, she knew she couldn’t be without it,” we figure that the reason she couldn’t be without it is because of how she uses swimming as an escape goat from life. She loves swimming for a different reason for others; others do swimming because they love the sport and to stay fit, she swims for the way it makes you feel and the fact that when you swim, you only think about your style, breathing and technique, you don’t have room to think of anything
Lastly, in The Swimmer, as the story progresses, Neddy begins to realize that everything around him is changing, and not for the better. Mid-way through the book, he goes to his sister's house and forgets that her husband had surgery, leaving a long scar on his stomach. The people around him start to distance themself from him, due to the fact that he lost all of his money. By the end of the story, he gets home to his house just to realize that no-one is home, and the house had likely been abandoned for a long time before that. All of these experiences, like the trust people put into others, and how disillusionment plays an important role for the lost
Brandon feels useless since he has to sit in the room with Old Nan. Before the accident, he has enjoyed listening to the stories told by the woman. However, now he is abrupt and he orders Old Nan to stop telling her tales. This is due to the fact that he is alone, nobody visits him. What is more, he feels that because of his disability his family has abandoned him.
His behavior at the party shows to the reader that Nick is different from all others present at the party; he was the moral foil to others' careless
Decline Imagery Setting Characters Tone Conclusion: Cheever’s use of literary devices drives the plot of the delusion of suburban emptiness. Literary Analysis of The Swimmer The Swimmer by John Cheever was published in 1964.
The first pool visited by Neddy is Ms. Graham 's, whose land borders that of the Westerhazys '. Through the adroit usage of a similar name, Cheever furtively identifies West Chester, Pennsylvania as a semi-autobiographical inspiration influencing the setting of his masterpiece. Ms. Graham excitedly and felicitously greets Neddy, promptly offering him an alcoholic beverage. Quickly and purposefully, Neddy swims the length of Ms. Graham 's pool and leaves the harmonious scene eager and motivated for the long journey ahead. After successively swimming through a few of the neighbors ' pools, Neddy hears the noise caused by the festive scene taking place at the Bunkers '.
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac is about Ned Begay, a Navajo code talker during World War II. Ned faced two life changing events that shapes who he is. First is his move to an American boarding school that forces him to act like someone else, later he becomes a Navajo code talker with even more hardships to face. During these pivotal events, Ned experiences similar situations that I have been through. Ned was living peacefully on the Indian reservations until he has to go American boarding school hundred miles away.
Towards the end is where the transformation of the characters finalize after the malignant occurrence. The Swimmer, Greasy Lake, and Young Goodman Brown easily model a corruption of innocence due to a somewhat relevant and relatable evil. The Swimmer is not a typical story of a deranged vengeful evil, but instead a more realistic evil, unconscious ignorance or drunkenness. The character, Neddy, is introduced as an affluent flippant young dapper male.
My nerves from the first class unexpectedly came rushing back. These students grew into great swimmers, but I knew that the depth of the water could petrify them. The first few students were able to swim back up with little to no effort, but the last girl lost her footing and slipped into the pool and couldn 't resurface. I froze as I saw her struggling to swim and breathe. My mind quickly flashed back to the time I jumped out of my tube and almost drowned.
