Greasy Lake

Term Paper Title	Greasy Lake
# of Words	498
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.99

Greasy Lake

In "Greasy Lake", the narrator uses the phase "This is nature" twice to represent the past and present and how he is awakened in one night by the "near death experience".  There he sees the reality of life and how things really are.  The narrator tells how his attitude toward life changes overnight.  The story describes his view before the night and after in the morning and how it is completely changed.
     Earlier in this tale in second paragraph, the meaning of  "This was nature" refers to how the narrator sees his life at this point of time.  He describes a dirty, polluted lake, beer cans littering its banks and teenagers drinking and getting high.  "...(Greasy Lake) was fetid and murky, the mud banks glittering with broken glass and strewn with beer cans and the charred remains of bonfires. ...everyone went there...to drink beer, smoke pot, howl at the stars, savor the incongruous full-throated roar of rock and roll against the primeval susurrus of frogs and crickets.  This was nature."  It is normal to drink beer, smoke pot and listen to rock and roll at Greasy Lake because everyone else dose it.
     This is how he sees life and the world.  He sees himself just a kid trying to be bad and looking for trouble.  He and his friends consider themselves "bad characters" and ready take on anything and anyone that stood in their way.  Here the only thing t...

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