ENGLISH R1B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Dana Gioia, Station Wagon, Agricultural Show
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Some critical responses to greasy lake by t. coraghassen boyle. Which is most persuasive in conveying the message (or lack of it) in boyle"s story: (from instructor"s manual , an introduction to fiction, poetry, drama, 6th ed. , eds. In its way, greasy lake is a force for change. Caught trying to rape the girl in the blue car, the narrator and his friends run off into the woods, into the water. Waiting in the filthy lake, the narrator is grateful to be alive and feels horror at the death of the bad older character" whose body he meets in the slime. When at the end of the story, two more girls pull into the parking lot, the subdued narrator and his friends are harmless. Cold sober, bone tired, they know they have had a lucky escape from consequences that might have been terrible.
