What makes the narrator and his friends run off into the woods?
What will be an ideal response?
- As they drive up to Greasy Lake, they blast the car horn and flash its brights on a parked car they think belongs to their friend Tony. They think the joke will lead him to “experience premature withdrawal and expect to be confronted by grim-looking state troopers with flashlights” (par. 6). When they realize it’s not Tony’s car at all, it is already too late. The man gets out of the car and starts a violent fist fight with Digby, Jeff, and the narrator. This “greasy character” is much stronger than all three and has no intention of losing the fight. After the narrator gets a tire iron out of his car, he delivers a blow to the man that—surprisingly—causes him to collapse in an instant. The boys think they’ve killed him, so they turn to the girl and begin to rape her. They are “dirty, bloody, guilty, dissociated from humanity and civilization” (par. 16). Before they accomplish their second “Ur-crime” (par. 17), they see the flashing headlights from another car. Terrified, they run into the woods in an attempt to escape punishment for their two crimes, and as the narrator hides in Greasy Lake, he experiences an unexpected epiphany when he sees Al’s dead body.
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