The Destructors Essays

Blue Velvet may seem to be a film about love or good and evil yet it is more complex because of the relationship between characters. The presence of contrast between characters and colors is the key elements in the film, Blue Velvet. Blue Velvet is a mystery-suspense film directed by David Lynch. The film begins with a discovery of a severed human ear found in a field. The accidental case leads a young man, Jeffrey, on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer, Dorothy

The effect of war An individual’s pursuit of meaning through destruction ultimately leads to a void rather than fulfillment. Graham Greene’s short story “The Destructors” delves into the profound theme of the interplay between time and opportunity as an individual seeks to create a meaningful life. Through portraying a group of young boys who engage in acts of destruction, Greene explores how time and the availability of opportunities shape one’s pursuit of purpose and meaning. As the narrative unfolds

The reader's first impression of “The Destructors” is that the story is a simple narrative of senseless violence and wanton destruction carried out by thoughtless, amoral adolescents. This act of destruction is of course intensely symbolic as it represents the way T. and the other members of the gang have become deeply psychologically damaged as a result of growing up during the second world war. The use of symbolism in the short story is used to help convey the sense of hollowness that accompanies

The main question for the thesis can be analyzed through various topics and texts, as such I chose ‘The Destructors’ by Graham Greene. Befor in the introduction, I gave you an insight as to what the story was about. I will now analyze the text and use it as a whole to answer the question at hand. Set in the mid-1950s, the story is about the Wormsley Common Gang, a boys' gang who is named after the pl“All war is a symptom of man’s failure as thinking animal.”(John Steinbeck). This quote clearly talks

In the short story “The destructors”, Graham Greene writes about a gang of young people in London around an era of war. Throughout the story Greene uses all types of rhetorical devices to give the story emptiness feel. The use of imagery and symbolism were great factors in order to accomplish in the short story is to help convey the sense of hollowness that accompanies London in the wake of the bombing in World War II. We can see this because the imagery used throughout the short story is imitated

resentment in those that lost everything. For some, it does not take much to unleash the demons kept bridled in the deep recesses of their mind. For Trevor, the lead protagonist and symbol of the covetousness nature of humans in Graham Greene’s, The Destructors, it took the loss of everything he once knew for his demons to break free their bonds in a fury of destruction.

and countries physically and mentally shattered. For a while, Great Britain was one of them. Although they had been part of the Allied force, fighting against Italy, Germany, and Japan, the war left them in an unfavorable economic state. In “The Destructors,” by Graham Green, Greene shows the reader the effects of the war nine years after it ended. He uses a gang of children and an old man to convey that children raised within a poor and violent time

Envy Leads to Destruction Set in post World War Two England, Graham Greene's "The Destructors" shows the lives of a small gang of boys living in a desolate area of London. Amongst the ruins of a bomb site, these anti-heroes plan out daily shenanigans such as catching free rides on local buses or petty thievery. In the story, the gang's leader, Blackie, is suddenly, but democratically, usurped from his role as leader to a newer gang member named T. He suggests, instead of their regular boyish crimes

Literary Analysis of “The Destructors” While living in the United Kingdom, Graham Greene wrote and published "The Destructors" in a magazine called the Picture Post. It is a novel about a group of boys who call themselves the “Wormsley Common gang” and range in age from nine to fifteen. They are in an old, run-down town directly following World War II, and they do everything they can to destroy it, including the only remaining house. This house belongs to Mr. Thomas who lived there before and after

“The Destructors” is a story of the Wormsley Common gang’s destruction of an old house shortly after World War II. The gang consists of teenage boys who meet every day in the parking place next to an old house. Mr. Thomas is the owner of the house. The teenagers consistently harass him and finally destroy his house under Trevor’s leading. In Graham Greene's “The Destructors,” Mr. Thomas’s house symbolizes England after World War II. First of all, the structure of the house, known as the “Old Misery’s

Generational Clashes and the Element of Destruction in “The Destructors” Post-war London was a place filled with angst as the city and its people within were climbing out of a hole. Within a changing world, Graham Greene’s story “The Destructors” looks at how the effects of World War II in London caused a clash of generational ideas and how the young people looked to fill their role in a changing city. Greene’s story includes ideas of beautiful destruction, shifts of power, and conflict between

Greene’s “The Destructors” calls attention to a topic that is frequently addressed, often in various contexts. Occurring nine years after the Second World War, the story’s focus on a gang of young boys from London offers a unique perspective on this particular time period. Instead of being presented with information about Nazism, Germany, and the Holocaust, readers are given insight into the traumatic events in England, specifically the first bombing blitz that took place from September 1940 to

behavior, and commanded him to “build an ark” (Genesis 6:14 NIV). Even though their stories are not as dramatic as the end of the world, Shirley Jackson and Graham Greene hid their unlikely protagonist in their short stories “The Lottery” and “The Destructors”. Jackson and Greene use strong characterization that allows their protagonist’s motives to influence their group’s emotions, attitudes and behaviors. Protagonist Although Jackson’s “The Lottery” is filled with many different outspoken characters

The setting of “The Lottery” and “The Destructor” differ by one deceiving and the other highlighting the writers’ true intentions. The setting of “The Lottery” is a beautiful summer day in June. The writer creates a since of happiness with the setting of the summer day, even the phrase summer day has good feelings correlated with it. The lottery itself takes place in the middle of the courtyard of a rural town. On the other side of the spectrum “The Destructors” takes place on a bank holiday in august

Kids will be kids, but the meaning behind this changes with current events. The short story “The Destructors”, by Graham Greene, sets his story in post-World War two Great Britain. This story shows the effects of the war nine years after it had ended and what it was like for some kids to grow up living through it. The children in the story were raised in poor and broken-down homes from all the violence and destruction around them. Since most of the children in this book were hardly old enough to

Man Vs Self: Trevor In Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” conflicted is a character trait that Trevor prominently displays, as his attempts to bring down divisions within societies interfere with his past and current life. Trevor is one of the many people who have been negatively impacted by the effects of World War II as he and his family have lost their place in the upper hierarchy. Soon after, Trevor becomes the new leader of The Wormsley Common gang, a group of teenage boys living in a rough

Vulnerability is the birthplace of change. The fictional short story The Destructors by Graham Greene is about a gang of young boys in post-Blitzkrieg England who like to cause mischief. The story follows the gang through their greatest bit of shenanigans ever. A theme of helplessness runs deep throughout. Feelings of helplessness change a person’s sense of identity from being self-focussed to group-focussed through empathy. A lack of helplessness lets a person be confident but narrow about their

Irony in “The Destructors” This essay is going to be about the presence of irony in “The Destructors” by Graham Greene. Irony is a key element to this short story, there are multiple examples toward the end of the story when the gang destroyed Mr. Thomas’s house, such as when Mr. Thomas scraped mud off of his shoes to avoid getting his house dirty, when Mr. Thomas heard sounds of destruction, and when Mr. Thomas’s horoscope said destruction may be on the path. In the next few paragraphs, these

How does a two-hundred-year-old house crumble to rubble at the pull of a rope? And more importantly; who is behind it? In Graham Greene’s short story “The Destructors” a small boys gang in post-World War II London accepts a new member into their ranks. He takes charge as the group sets out on a mission to destroy an old nearby house from the inside out. Meeting the protagonist Trevor for the first time we’re given the immediate impression of a stereotypical sullen bad boy. However, first impressions

In the story "The Destructors" by Graham Greene, the idea of materialism is explored through the character Old Misery and the destruction of the house which work together in the story. The house before it was destroyed is a symbol for the upper class, and the destruction of the house is a symbol for the lower class. Thomas, or "old Misery," was the person who owned the big house and was once a decorator; this indicates that "whose real name was Thomas—had once been a builder and decorator." That