Greasy Lake

I was part of the group on Greasy Lake. Reading this story, it started out by setting the stage for the story to come. Providing the details around the time period also provided a good point for me to reflect on as I thought about how different the times are today. As discussed in our Lit. Circle, all the different things that were shared to start the story gave each of us some different perspectives but we clearly new that the different points all would come to mean something as the story progressed.

I noted in my write-up about the story how the narrator was a "bad character" but that did not mean he was actually a bad person. This was very important to me as it showed how it was almost as if he was attempting to be something he was not and that showed through with the information he shared about his life; like not being in a fight since the sixth grade.

Overall, I liked the story and the opportunity it gave me to really use my imagination as I went through the story. The symbolism that was used was good and offered to me that these kids had some sort of an idea that they must use certain things to fit in. They seemed as though they were headed in a direction no matter what and as one boy did something, another would do something more.