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A 4 page paper which examines the story Greasy Lake by T.C. Boyle as it involves youth. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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is the story of one night in the life of a teenaged boy and while some may argue it is a coming of age story, there are powerful elements of
the story that speak of the troubled youth in society, a society that is modern yet at the same time still quite primitive. The following paper examines how Boyles story
illustrates this condition. Greasy Lake by Boyle The story of Greasy Lake involves three young men, young men who the reader knows from the beginning are "bad." The
narrator seems to stress very strongly how bad these young men were, how they did drugs, and there is a sense of pride in this as seen in the following
excerpt: "There was a time when courtesy and winning ways went out of style, when it was good to be bad, when you cultivated decadence like a taste. We were
all dangerous characters then...We read Andre Gide and struck elaborate poses to show that we didnt give a shit about anything" (Boyle 555).
In many respects this excerpt illustrates a very common sort of troubled youth. Young people are always struggling to find themselves, to seek some sort of identity, and separate
themselves from their parents, their community, and society as well in many ways, finding elements that make them unique. In this excerpt there is nothing that would indicate the story
will be about beating a man to death, so they thought, or almost succeeding in gang raping some woman. When one thinks
of youth there is surely an element of danger, testing boundaries and going against the law to some degree but what these young men did, or attempted to do, goes
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