This story is based on a song "Spirit In The Night", that was written by "Bruce Springsteen"(4). It's about a couple of wild teens that played in a band, and acted out their wild ways. Springsteen got the idea to write the song from his sister. A sister that lived in Lakewood, a town that Greasy Lake is out side of. "Greasy Lakes actual name is Lake Shenandoah which is on Route 88 on the black side of town(4)."

The environment of the story was very dark and weary feeling. Boyle seemed to go over board with the characters bad ways. He makes you think that the story takes place in the late 50's or early 60's through the story. But in the first paragraph, when he is describing the characters it mentions, "sniffing glue and ether and what somebody claimed was cocaine(boyle 405)." It doesn't make since because cocaine didn't come out until the 70's. The story doesn't have

I thought that Instead of calling it the "Greasy Lake", Boyle should have named it "Dark Side" after (Bruce Springsteen) song. It would have had more meaning for the story. Overall, the story was pretty good, and makes you think of what living on the wild side could cause, and do to your life.

much background on the three boys. It doesn't explain why they act the way they do. Is it because they grew up in a bad household, or are they the type that doesn't fit in with the normal crowd. Boyle could have also put in the story how they became acquainted with each other. He could have given a softer side to the characters. The story makes the boys look like beast with no feelings. Its kind of hard to believe that the characters could try and rape the girl, and none of them thinking twice about it.

Some irony in the story the narrator say, "We were on her like Bergman's deranged brother-see no evil, hear none, speak none-panting, wheezing, tearing at her clothes, grabbing for flesh(Boyle,409)." I don't think anyone expected that to happen. Boyle could have left some of that part out. "At the end of the story, what makes the narrator want to cry(tcboyle,11)?" He could have led the reader to a more narrow bases. Where he ended the story it is hard to know if he was about to cry because of the dead body, o

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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)