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The Power Of Wakan

JAIME JAMES
RESPONSE PAPER 1
FEBRUARY 4, 2006
BONNIE TENSEN
MORE THAN JUST A LAKE
In "Greasy Lake" by T. Coraghessan Boyle, the setting is a character that changes throughout the story, much as the narrator changes and grows through his experiences. Greasy Lake is a place where good boys go to learn to be bad. This story is about a time "when you cultivated decadence like a taste." (Boyle 144) You can tell by the first few paragraphs that you must pay great attention to the setting in this story to fully grasp what Boyle is trying to convey.
Greasy Lake is a world apart from the town the narrator spends his days in. During the day he would act as his parents expect, and at night, he could escape to the other worldly Greasy Lake and be bad. It's a place where the good boys go to learn from the bad. The narrator says "we drank gin and grape juice, Tango, Thunderbird, Bali Hai. We were nineteen. We were bad." (144) They tried to act like they didn't care, and one way they did......


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