Shawn Cisero
Shawn Cisero
Professor Reck
EN102
February 12, 2015
Grease Is Thicker Than Water When viewing characters in stories they can either be viewed as flat or round; in this way flat meaning characters that have no change through the story and are usually uncomplicated in understanding who they are as a reader and round in contrast meaning that they are complex and change throughout the story, whether it may be relatively large or small. The narrator in the story is a part of a time where being “bad” was believed cool by those of the adolescence age group. His character is framed in the beginning when he says: “We were bad. We read Andre Gide and struck elegant poses to show that we didn't give a shit about anything" (P 1). This quote is substantial to the plot because it shows the reader that if they were really the bad characters they were trying to be then they wouldn’t be trying so hard doing all these things that aren’t even bad, which is apparent by the end of the story. The first change of the narrator’s character is when he finds the body of whom we later find out to be Al in the lake. Prior to this happening he and his friends were joking around and being the average adolescent of the time but they made the wrong mistake of flashing lights at the wrong person and ended up getting into a fight with a “…Very bad greasy character” who actually is bad and then they try to rape a girl. When the narrator tries to swim through the lake to get away from the new attackers that pull up he runs into the dead body, which then starts to trigger a change in the narration and stray away from the ideal of being bad. The only thing he wants to do at this point is get away from Greasy Lake and more importantly that dead body. When he and his friends though finally regroup you can see though that the experience they all had affected them all in a way. When Digby and Jeff come out of the woods the narrator described that “they slouched across the lot, looking sheepish, and
Professor Reck
EN102
February 12, 2015
Grease Is Thicker Than Water When viewing characters in stories they can either be viewed as flat or round; in this way flat meaning characters that have no change through the story and are usually uncomplicated in understanding who they are as a reader and round in contrast meaning that they are complex and change throughout the story, whether it may be relatively large or small. The narrator in the story is a part of a time where being “bad” was believed cool by those of the adolescence age group. His character is framed in the beginning when he says: “We were bad. We read Andre Gide and struck elegant poses to show that we didn't give a shit about anything" (P 1). This quote is substantial to the plot because it shows the reader that if they were really the bad characters they were trying to be then they wouldn’t be trying so hard doing all these things that aren’t even bad, which is apparent by the end of the story. The first change of the narrator’s character is when he finds the body of whom we later find out to be Al in the lake. Prior to this happening he and his friends were joking around and being the average adolescent of the time but they made the wrong mistake of flashing lights at the wrong person and ended up getting into a fight with a “…Very bad greasy character” who actually is bad and then they try to rape a girl. When the narrator tries to swim through the lake to get away from the new attackers that pull up he runs into the dead body, which then starts to trigger a change in the narration and stray away from the ideal of being bad. The only thing he wants to do at this point is get away from Greasy Lake and more importantly that dead body. When he and his friends though finally regroup you can see though that the experience they all had affected them all in a way. When Digby and Jeff come out of the woods the narrator described that “they slouched across the lot, looking sheepish, and