Greasy Lake

The Difference Between, Story and Song In the story and the tune, what is too be learned? The story and the bird vociferation are different in so many rooms. The story has a non-white situation to it and it is not only childs play and games any more. The boys in the story live on hurt and scared. The yell on the other hand has a lighter touch to it. The boys are having a great condemnation and living it up. They do not focus on the next day effective what is deviation on at the time. They two show how teenagers can be irresponsible and not devour a care in the world. They also hasten their unique qualities to the story they tell.The backing in the story had a dark side to it. It was each(prenominal) fun and games as they rode somewhat town, got drunk and smoked weed. Then they decided to go to Greasy Lake. They thought they saw their friend and started honking to give him a big(a) time, but they were wrong. Everything thing went downhill from there. The guy that own ed the car was brainsick and it started a huge fight. This shows darkness by it being late so everyone is out that should not be and there fighting someone could have got killed. The main consultation had lost his keys and could not find them so that they could get away.Jeff and Digby, friends of the main char proceeder, were fighting the guy that owned the car the main char performer went for the tire iron under the seat of his own car. He thought, I kept it there because bad characters always keep tire bondage under the drivers seat, and for an occasion like this (127). He got the tire iron and hit the guy over the vanguard with it and he hit the ground. Everyone just froze and stared for a minute. This is one example of how the story is dark and what could happen no one got knocked out in the song. Then a girl came around the car yelling, animals (128).The boys just stared and lusted of her. Then they started tearing her array off and were trying to pin her to the hood of t he car. This is a dark wind in the story because they were going to itch the girl. Before they could do it head lights peered into the lot. The boys took off running. They were friends of the guy they had knocked out. The girl was screaming, it is them they tried to rap me (129). They guys chased they boys by dint of the woods. They boys in all(prenominal) separated in different directions. The main character had plunged into the lake and just as he started to swim he hit something.He said it was, unspeakable, obscene, something soft, wet, stick-in-the-mud(p) (129). He figured out it was a deathlike body rudderless in the water system. The boys where hanging out where bad characters go, that body in the water could be them one day. He had to stay there and hide for a while though. They boys finally met back up after the other guys left hand and the car was ruined. The windshield smashed in, dented all over and looking glass thrown into the car. He found the keys and two gi rls pulled up looking for the dead guy. They got out of that and got out of there, they were scared they were going to jail and just valued to go home.The song has a lighter setting to it. The boys are cruising around town having the time of their lives. They go around and pick up all of their friends and head to Greasy Lake. The song lyrics say, I got a bottle of move up so lets try it and Ill take you all out to where the gypsy angels go, Theyre base like light And they dance like spirits in the wickedness ( meat in the Night). They just want to have a good time and go out with their friends to the lake. There was some fighting in the song but not as graphic as in the story. The boys were just dancing under the stares all night.The song lyrics said, And we danced all night to a soul fairy band (Spirit in the Night). The boys did not try to desecrate anyone like they did in the story, but they were making love under the stares. The song lyrics say, Me and Crazy Janey was makin love in the dirt, Singin our birthday songs (Spirit in the Night). They did not have a care in the world. Also they were not running from anyone and decision dead bodies in the lake. They were all drunk or high and going out for a good time. Both the song and the story smatter about rout 88. Thats the way to greasy lake.I trust the song is meant for just going out and having a good time. It leaves out all the bad things that could happen. The song is like a dream the story is more of a reality. In that kind of situation getting drunk and bullet weed, normally always something goes wrong. In the song it is all fun and games and a little fighting. It is well-nighly just dancing under the stares, drinking, smoking, and making love. The song lyrics say, Now, the night was bright and the stars threw light, On Billy and Davy dancin in the moonlight (Spirit in the Night).This is a sugar coated version of the story. The story has a darker side to it. People are fighting and getting kno cked out. There was an attempted rape and dead bodies floating in the water. The song and the story are totally different. The boys in the story were scared that they might go to jail for all the stuff they have done. In the song they did not have a care in the world. Also in the story the boys tried to act like they were bad characters and were mean and did all this stuff. When really they were just preteen teenagers who really did not understand it.They were foolish and just treasured to act like they were cool. They really had no idea what it meant to be that way until that night a greasy lake. The main character thought, I wanted to go home to my parents house and crawl into bed (131). What I learned from the story and the song are opposite. The boys in the story think they are these cool bad characters. In reality they just wanted to act that way. They had no idea what it was like to really be that way until they got in the fight with that guy and his friends showed up.The s ong has a more eudaemonia tone to it. It shows them having a great time and getting along for the most part. I like the fact that they portray different stories though. It makes it more enkindle and gets you thinking. Works Cited Boyle, Coraghessan. Greasy Lake. Literature An Introduction to Fiction Poetry, Drama, and Writing, 11thedition. Ed. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. New York Longman, 2010. 125-132. Print. Springsteens, Bruce. Spirit in the Night. Greetings from Asbury Park. Clive Davis, 1973. CD.