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'The Difference Between, Story and Song In the taradiddle and the vociferation, what is too be conditioned? The business relationship and the verse argon different in so many elans. The drool has a distressing emplacement to it and it is not altogether fun and games any more. The boys in the accounting get hurt and s automobileed. The vociferation on the different hand has a lighter touch to it. The boys are having a enormous while and living it up. They do not focus on the next mean solar day dependable what is freeing on at the time. They both(prenominal) show how teenagers can be irresponsible and not have a care in the world. They overly have their unique qualities to the story they tell.The setting in the story had a stern side to it. It was on the whole fun and games as they rode slightly t testify, got drunk and take in weed. Then they decided to go to Greasy Lake. They cerebration they saw their friend and started honking to give him a substantial t ime, but they were wrong. Everything thing went downhill from there. The jest at that own the car was mad and it started a huge fight. This shows loathsomeness by it being late so every integrity is step to the fore that should not be and there competitiveness some all of a sudden body could have got killed. The principal(prenominal) temper had lost his keys and could not find them so that they could get away.Jeff and Digby, friends of the main character, were contend the guy that owned the car; the main character went for the tire iron down the stairs the seat of his own car. He thought, â€Å"I kept it there because cock-a-hoop characters always keep tire irons under the driver’s seat, barely for an occasion kindred this” (127). He got the tire iron and hit the guy over the head 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 melo dy. Then a girl came around the car yelling, â€Å"animals” (128).The boys just stared and lusted of her. Then they started tearing her clothes strike and were trying to pin her to the hood of the car. This is a dark point in the story because they were going to shame 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, â€Å"it is them they tried to rap me” (129). They guys chased they boys through the woods. They boys all separated in different directions. The main character had plunged into the lake and just as he started to be adrift he hit something.He said it was, â€Å"unspeakable, obscene, something soft, wet, moss-grown” (129). He figured out it was a dead body floating in the water. The boys where hanging out where sorry characters go, that body in the water could be them one day. He had to stay there and hide for a while though. The y boys finally met back up afterward the other guys left and the car was ruined. The windshield wonky in, dented all over and trash thrown and twisted into the car. He found the keys and two girls pulled up spirit for the dead guy. They got out of that and got out of there, they were scared they were going to jail and just wanted to go home.The stock has a lighter setting to it. The boys are cruising around town having the time of their lives. They go around and election up all of their friends and head to Greasy Lake. The metrical composition lyrics say, â€Å"I got a bottle of rose so lets try it and Ill take you all out to where the gipsy angels go, Theyre build equivalent light And they dance care spirits in the nighttime” (Spirit 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 claim but not as graphic as in the story. The boys were just bound under the stares all night.The song lyric s said, â€Å"And we danced all night to a soul fairy band” (Spirit in the Night). The boys did not try to rape anyone ilk they did in the story, but they were making love under the stares. The song lyrics say, â€Å"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. in addition they were not running from anyone and finding dead bodies in the lake. They were all drunk or uplifted and going out for a good time. two the song and the story talk about syndicate 88. That’s the way to greasy lake.I think 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 smoking weed, normally always something goes wrong. In the song it is all fun and games and a little fighting. It is in general just dancing under the stares, drinkin g, smoking, and making love. The song lyrics say, â€Å"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 cover version of the story. The story has a darker side to it. mess are fighting and getting knocked out. There was an assay rape and dead bodies floating in the water. The song and the story are completely 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 truly they were just young teenagers who really did not understand it.They were wild and just wanted 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, â€Å"I wanted to go home to my parent’s house and crawl into bedâ⠂¬Â (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 song has a more upbeat 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 interesting and gets you thinking. Works Cited Boyle, Coraghessan. â€Å"Greasy Lake. ” Literature: An insertion to Fiction Poetry, Drama, and Writing, 11thedition. Ed. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. New York: Longman, 2010. 125-132. Print. Springsteen’s, Bruce. â€Å"Spirit in the Night. ” Greetings from Asbury Park. Clive Davis, 1973. CD.\r\n'