The Destructors (A Summarized Summary) By: Felix Cheung‚ Pareen Sehat‚ & Sean Stubbs What its About: In the short story‚ The Destructors‚ by Graham Greene‚ a gang of youths expresses their anger and frustration against society by destroying the last remaining house on a bombed out street. The protagonist‚ Trevor‚ or T‚ becomes the gang’s leader‚ who is fuelled by a desire to take revenge on the middle class. The previous leader of the gang‚ Blackie‚ loses his position when Trevor develops a superior
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The combination of words‚ create tone/mood in all stories; through those tones‚ a realization of certain aspects of life or an alternation of those views are intensified. Three short stories‚ "A Rose for Emily‚" "The Destructors‚" and the "Interpreter of Maladies‚" shine brightly in exemplifying how words used in a specifics order or meaning‚ create tone to alter one’s opinions. Darkness‚ death‚ sympathy‚ violence all words that could be used to describe the tone of "A Rose for Emily." All the
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Fiction Essay Name Course Date Graham Greene the author of “The Destructors” and Richard Connell the author of “The Most Dangerous Game” both used a similar mood in their stories. Connell placed his story on an island in the Caribbean that was dark and scary‚ it had a reputation of death and separation. Greene placed his characters in a post war zone in London where there seemed to be little hope of life. Greene’s setting was urban with many young English
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The Destructors Graham Greene showed the destruction of war clearly in the short story‚ “The Destructors.” While the bomb craters and destroyed buildings were made evident‚ the damage done to the psyches of the children were a little harder to see. Even though these children were too young to experience much of the war‚ and definitely never saw the front lines of combat‚ they still wore scars that maimed them forever. Childhood was a very formative time in their lives of a person. It shaped who
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"The Destructors" Indirect vs. Direct PresentationIn "The Destructors‚" by Graham Greene‚ both indirect and direct presentation is implemented to provide a multidimensional portrayal of the characters in the story. This device is effective because each type of presentation provides the reader with a different perspective into each character. The author presents the characters directly by telling the reader details about the characters and presents the characters indirectly by showing the reader.
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"Chaos had advanced. The kitchen was a shambles of broken glass and china. The dining-room was stripped of parquet‚ the skirting was up‚ the door had been taken off its hinges‚ and the destroyers had moved up a floor. Streaks of light came in through the closed shutters where they worked with the seriousness of creators - and destruction after all is a form of creation. A kind of imagination had seen this house as it had now become." The Second World War had just finished and the boys were living
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Reading Response Journal- "The Destructors" In my opinion‚ the main idea of the story‚ "The Destructors" by Graham Greene is that when humans let their own personal feelings get in the way of doing what is right‚ it leads to a feeling of detriment and dissatisfaction. Also the Wormsley Common Gang chose poor decisions that affected their innocence throughout the entire story. These poorly made decisions took away their youth innocence and replaced it with selfishness and destruction. In the story
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“The Destructors” And “The Rocking Horse Winner” Comparison and Contrast By Edward R. Tierney In this paper‚ I will compare and contrast the characters‚ themes‚ suspense and moral principles found in the stories The Destructors by Graham Greene and The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence. It is interesting that both Graham Green and D.H. Lawrence wrote during different time periods but share misery as a common theme. I can understand how Lawrence wrote from this perspective‚ because
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class. Please indicate which short story you presented on: The Destructors by Graham Green Laura De Jaegher Please indicate which short story you presented on: The Destructors by Graham Green Laura De Jaegher Answer each of the following
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the fact time has been reduced for the reader. In “The Destructors” by Graham Greene‚ and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell‚ the setting for which each story is written are completely opposite. This paper will critique the setting of both stories and show how the setting presents the writer’s intentions. Outline: I. Stories chosen. A. “The Destructors” B. “The Most Dangerous Game” II. The Settings. A. “The Destructors” 1. London‚ England. 2. Wormsley
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