Coming-of-Age Stories with Morals: T. Coraghessan Boyles Greasy Lake a

T. Coraghessan Boyles Greasy Lake and John Updikes A & P eat many similarities as well as differences. Both are coming-of-age stories that watch some sort of lesson to the protagonist at the end. A&P is closely a cardinal-year-old boy who stands up against his manager to impress a equalise of girls who are dressed immodestly. Greasy Lake is about many nineteen years olds playing a prank on a yoke of bad characters who turn out to show the teens what they can receivedly do in return. Luckily, the narrator and Sammy both realize their deficiency after the situations with the other(a) characters. In A&P the narrators turning promontory in his life is when he finds the bikers body in the lake adjoining to him. In Greasy Lake the realization occurs after Sammy quits his job and tries to be the hero to those girls. In both stories, the protagonists have no idea what the real world is like, or how it works. The narrator in Greasy Lake does not hold out what bad means un til his own badness is put to the test in the real world. From his experience, Sammy learns that he will...