... everyone went there, because we wanted to snuff he rich scent of possibility on the breeze, watch a girl take off her clothes and plunge into the festering murk, 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." (129) The lake always provided a fun social atmosphere for my friends and I at ... the time, until the day it would change our lives forever. The night started out like any other night ... . I was with three of my friends that shared the same bad attitude as ... ...

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... (126). Greasy Lake was a place that these rebels could go to escape the world of morals and responsibility. The crowd at Greasy Lake had no room to judge, for they had the same greasy habits. The lake was the narrators place to express himself. While admiring the lake's qualities such as the "primeval susurrus of frogs and crickets", he thought to himself, "this is nature" (126). Aside ... from the lakes ambiance, the narrator gives a description of its physical attributes. The lake water was "fetid and murky, the mud banks glittering with broken glass and ... with "dark, rank, mysterio...

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... notes that "it was good to be bad," and seems to find true pleasure going against the grain and disturbing "nature" in saying, "savor the incongruous full-throated roar of rock and roll against the primeval susurrus of frogs and crickets." The lake had been robbed of its true beauty; its chastity had been stolen just like so many others" had. It is not all ... that different from the people who frequented it. Once clear and beautiful, it had been negatively affected by ... the environment (people) surrounding it and now suffered ... ...

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... ended this man's life would have been the greasy character. Once everything is cleared up the narrator goes to see his mother's car that is torn up, but luckily the tires are still inflated. The young men now see nature as "a sweet smelling air with beautiful birds singing" (135). At the beginning the boys believe nature is nothing but crickets, frogs, and a muddy lake. To me this ... shows the adolescents are now changing from adolescence to ... adulthood due to the barriers that were broken that night. One may someday make a correlation to this story at some time in his life, and ......

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