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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involved”. Greene uses many symbols to this demonstrate these shades. Light being one‚ and the manifestation of an explosion; the Vietnamese people are ageless and often child-like in appearance‚ although Greene in no way infantilizes these people. Pyle is idealistic and strives for honour - he insists upon being fair‚ but we do not admire him for these heroic ideals. Indeed‚ we can see how dangerous and unthinking heroes can be - while they may be trying to help‚ they risk the lives of other people than
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Graham Greene: The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen 1. Describe the characters. The young woman: She had thin blonde hair and how she spoke showed that she studied in one of the best school of London. Her fiancé: He was doomed and easy to control by others. The narrator (author): He was a reflective person who analyzed different situation from what people said and expressed physically. The Japanese gentlemen: They spoke their tongue; they were always with a smile in their faces and doing a lot of
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Destructors is a short story written by Graham Greene and set in WWII period London after the Blitz. The story follows the exploits of a certain juvenile gang and their interactions between one another. The short article Why Young People Join Gangs briefly outlines some of the reasons why youth‚ or juveniles might be inclined to willingly join a gang. When you compare the motivations of the characters in The Destructors and the reasons outlined in Why Young People Join Gangs clear parallels quickly become
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Introduction: Graham Greene is celebrated as one of the most prevalent post-war novelists who gave Englishnovel the spiritual heights. Thus he has been classified as a modern spiritualwriter and a great literary giant. [1] As a Catholic writer‚ Greene’s artof letters cruciallydeal with the subjects of sin and spiritualityvia different themes like man’s relationship with himself‚ with society and with God. Greene‚in his novels emphatically deals with the ideology that only faith in God can save man
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The story "The Root of All Evil" by Graham Greene is an excellent moral story about the sins that can arise when people try too hard to keep secrets. Lies‚ scandals‚ and murders are all created by secretive behavior‚ leading one to believe that secrets are the root of all evil. The trouble in this story begins when a few men in the town began meeting for nightly talks‚ and the consumption of alcohol. There were a few of the gentlemen who felt that they needed to gather together secretly‚ so that
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Graham Greene uses the motif of light to symbolize power. One young boy Trevor‚ nicknamed T‚ took power in the gang over Blackie to plan on destroying Mr. Thomas’s house. While the gang was destroying the house‚ T. found notes that he wanted to burn. The flame of the burning note only “illuminated his brooding face” (55). Only having T.’s face illuminate symbolized that T. had the power‚ and he was in charge of all of the destruction that the gang “created.” While the burning note was a form of light “illuminating” power
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American: A political warning by Graham Greene The Quiet American by Graham Greene is a novel that depicts a love triangle between a British journalist‚ an American secret agent and a Vietnamese girl in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. It came out in the mid fifties when the American government was not directly involved in the War. The novel generated critics from both sides of the spectrum such as Walter Allen with his review titled “Awareness of Evil: Graham Greene” and Robert Gorham Davies with
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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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parts are clearly divided into four chapters‚ while the last part is composed of four sub-parts which are not numbered‚ but clearly separated by four paragraphs. What does these systematic divisions and subdivisions in four mean?We have to consider two possible interpretations. First‚ the number four corresponds to God’s divine order. At the beginning God‚ whose name has four letters ’’YHVH’’‚ created the four elements‚ the four rivers‚ the four winds‚ the four seasons‚ the four dimensions (length
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