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The Rebel's Nature
When you are an adolescent, your curiosity runs wild. Rebellion was the first step towards dealing with the stress of supply and demand that the real world expected from the futures of the youth. Whether it's hassling the authorities just to impress your friends or the thrill of getting your hands on age illegal paraphernalia, your youthful instincts could care less about anything else. Tom Coraghessan Boyle cultivates this experience in his short story "Greasy Lake". Greasy Lake was a place for a teenager to taste his first beer, puff the freshly rolled marijuana cigerette, and if he's lucky, experience his first sexual encounter with a girl. According to Boyle, "this was nature". Nature literately refers to the essential phenomena that make life progress. According to the teenagers in the story, nature was an experience away from home, whether it is good or bad. Boyle's description of the Greasy Lake did not seem to appealing to me. It was very rugged, dirty,......

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