The Destructors
“The Destructors”
Commercial fiction attracts many people because it’s more fantasized than literary fiction, which tends to not have much audience and is more about what can really happen with humans and society. “The Destructors” by Graham Greene is a short story about a group of boys in a gang called Wormsley Common Gang and how their latest recruit had a rebellious plan on destroying a house from inside out of an elderly man. This short story fits in the genre of crime and drama because of what the gang does to this old man’s home just to be rebellious because of the two types of classes they live in. Trevor, known as T., is the one who gives the gang an idea of how he wants to destroy Old Misery’s home. As they were in the process of destroying the house, Mike, the youngest of them all, let the gang know that the old man was on his way back earlier than they expected. T. came up with a plan to lock him up in his loo until they finished what they started. At the end their plan of destroying Old Misery’s home was carried out and none of them could have been discovered for doing such thing. This story is much more of a literary fiction than commercial because it contains more realistic things that could actually happen. Graham Greene enlightens us about humans and society in this short story. He shows how actions are mostly determined by their surroundings. The tough time these boys were going through back in the 1950’s, after The Blitz happened, made us realized how rebellious they were going to grow up. Their destruct society in a way made them destroy this old man’s house more easily with no care. Destroying Old Misery’s home proved how society affected their actions. The suspense is more character driven. We all wonder why the main character, T., really wants to destroy this old man’s home when he has been nothing but nice with him and the gang. There was never a giving reason for him to be this way with Old Misery. And I quote, “I’d like to see Old
Commercial fiction attracts many people because it’s more fantasized than literary fiction, which tends to not have much audience and is more about what can really happen with humans and society. “The Destructors” by Graham Greene is a short story about a group of boys in a gang called Wormsley Common Gang and how their latest recruit had a rebellious plan on destroying a house from inside out of an elderly man. This short story fits in the genre of crime and drama because of what the gang does to this old man’s home just to be rebellious because of the two types of classes they live in. Trevor, known as T., is the one who gives the gang an idea of how he wants to destroy Old Misery’s home. As they were in the process of destroying the house, Mike, the youngest of them all, let the gang know that the old man was on his way back earlier than they expected. T. came up with a plan to lock him up in his loo until they finished what they started. At the end their plan of destroying Old Misery’s home was carried out and none of them could have been discovered for doing such thing. This story is much more of a literary fiction than commercial because it contains more realistic things that could actually happen. Graham Greene enlightens us about humans and society in this short story. He shows how actions are mostly determined by their surroundings. The tough time these boys were going through back in the 1950’s, after The Blitz happened, made us realized how rebellious they were going to grow up. Their destruct society in a way made them destroy this old man’s house more easily with no care. Destroying Old Misery’s home proved how society affected their actions. The suspense is more character driven. We all wonder why the main character, T., really wants to destroy this old man’s home when he has been nothing but nice with him and the gang. There was never a giving reason for him to be this way with Old Misery. And I quote, “I’d like to see Old