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The Question and Answer section for Greasy Lake is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
One of the major themes in the short story is the idea of identity and masculinity. The main character and his friends all try to be someone they are not and they try to appear much tougher that they are in reality. The reason why the adolescence...
The boys were looking for mischief.... for trouble. When they approached the car at the lake, they believed it was a friend..... soemone they could give a hard time to. Unfortunately, what they found was a stranger, a bad character, someone...
he uses this story as a means of showing that there is comformity in the world and that some of must go aganist the grain for those who do not quite fit in to what society calls right and resprectful.
