Greasy Lake

The story of Greasy Lake is written with the main character being the narrator, and is a captivating short story right away from the beginning. One aspect of the story that really stood out from me was the way he described nature. The first time he describes nature is at the beginning of the short story, and he does so by describing the garbage, and only the crickets and frogs. Where as the second time he describes the nature he describes every thing around him that is mean to be there and how because it is so still it is nature, this was very interesting to me i don't know why. I think it just showed that after this experience he may have grown up a little and looks at things with a more mature eye, rather than a nine teen year old boys eye still. As for the rest of the story in my opinion these boys were being the steryotypical nineteen year old society sees. They were drinking and doing multiple other illegal activities, and came across a car they thought was a friends. With the hope of seeing a naked girl they approached the car only to find out it was not their friends. When the man came out he attacked them and they began to fight back. In that moment i think it was just bad timing, and an honest mistake. With that being said though once they had beaten the man up they went after the girl with the intentions of raping her. It was then that the little bit of sorry i had for the three boys vanished. They were defending themselves when they beat the man off, but going after the girl was not defense it was in the efforts of pure pleasure. When the car came they are three vanished off into the woods. One of them going into the lake where he encounters a dead body, which the reader later finds out is AL the guy the girls are looking for at the end of the story. I think that the car being destroyed was a matter of karma because of what they were trying to do to the girl. With that being said the way the responded to the two girls looking for AL at the end of the story showed that they were scared out of their minds and done fooling around with people. I believe that before they were attacked and he saw the dead body, they would have went after these two girls and messed with them. But instead they practically blew them off driving in the other direction away from them and what had happend.