Tone Of Greasy Lake

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Greasy Lake By T. Coraghessan Boyle

T. Coraghessan Boyle published “Greasy Lake.” in 1985 along with several other short stories. T.C. Boyle writes about a group of young teenage boys who are trying to see what kind of trouble they can find on a cool summer night. Little did these young rapscallions know trouble would find them sooner than expected. By analyzing the language and tone of “Greasy Lake” we not only create an image of this eerie lake, but a better understanding of the authors’ attitude towards the story. The narrator writes from a participant-limited point of view allowing him to have a certain writing style to make the tone of the story more believable. A carefree and reckless attitude can be described as the tone and it is apparent in certain terms that are repeated. Terms such as, “Motherfucker” and when he says “we were bad” referring to himself and his friends allows the reader to imagine times when they too may have used diction similar to these young teens (T. Coraghessan Boyle, 168).…show more content…
It may just seem like the young teen being over dramatic about the severity of losing his keys but he compares it to being as “damaging and irreversible” as the outcome of “Westmoreland’s decision to dig in at Khe Sanh”(169). An event that according to Michael Walker, was actually “a crucible of a forming conscious” (Walker). By the narrator making these connections we better understand that this young teen is actually scared contrary to his feelings of being a bad boy. We see that the exaggeration of certain parts of the writing may be necessary to keep the story from going overboard with imagery such as the allusion to “the toad emerging from the loaf in Virgin Springs” (171). This reference was probably made to save the narrator from having to go into even more explicit details of the possibilities that could have happened that