Trevor The Destructors, written by Graham Greene, is a short story about the Wormsley Common Gang’s plot to intricately pull apart and wreck an old man’s house. The story is set in the ruins of post-World War II London, whose repeated efforts at restoration and rebuilding for a homeless community is thwarted by the bleak hopelessness and despair left from the war on every street. The Wormsley Common Gang, a gang composed of teenage boys who have nothing worthwhile to do, congregate in an empty car lot that neighbors a blessed house that has fortunately not been ruined. The idea of destroying this fragile house is brought to attention and, with no specific emotion or reason, is mischievously agreed on by the gang. Trevor, once the son of an architect and once part of an upper-class family, ignores that he is a thief, and has resorted to plotting to destroy this “beautiful” house specifically from the inside-out with his gang of teenage boys who have already replaced their innocence with greed, cynicism, and rebelliousness in a post-war, blitzed London.
Readers then realize that Lennie doesn’t understand the difference between killing an animal and murdering a human, therefore putting other lives at risk. There was an instance where Crooks was in danger himself, the result of him taunting Lennie that George might never come back for Lennie. Readers can sense the danger that Crooks was facing when “Suddenly Lennie’s eyes centered and grew quiet, and mad. He stood up and walked dangerously towards Crooks. ‘Who hurt George?’ he demanded” (Steinbeck 73).
Before they finish, Mike tells everybody that Old Misery is on his way back home. When he arrives, T prevents him from entering the house by asking for his assistance, saying that one of his friends got stuck in the toilet at the back of the house. The gang locks him in there overnight, gives him food and a blanket. The next morning, a driver starts up his car and as he accelerates he hears a loud crash. Looking back Old Misery’s house got transformed into rubble because the gang tied a rope between the car and a support beam.
(page 234) .Misfit says that he knows that his dad died because of flu. So, he was punished wrongly. He says, “I found out the crime don’t matter. You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man, because sooner or later you’re going to forget what it was you done and just punished for it” (page 235). Here he says that weather you kill people or take tire of car you will be punished anyway and when you will be punished you will forgot what you did and will be punished for no reason.
Victor was always mean to Thomas, but Thomas harldy paid any mind to how Victor treated him, he was always there with forgivness for him. Arnold Joseph first appears to be a drunk and abussive man. He is, but what is not first explained is why he is this way. The movie later goes on to tell that Arnold is responsible for the death of two people. Drunk one night, and playing with fireworks, Arnold caused the fire that killed Thomas' parents.
His fingers become covered with a yellow stain and people think that he is hygienically unclean. He forces Toby to do the paper round but exploits him and does not give him his money which angers Toby (221); he has to pawn his rifles. He is referred to as a “sissy” because he initially he does not want to fight Arthur. He abuses him because he discards the almost-empty mustard bottle (171) and when Dwight strikes him despite his finger injury, Rosemary finally knows she must remove Toby from the household.
This quote shows that the school boys are actually forgetting who they really are and worshiping the devil by sacrificing a pig. With this in mind Roger kills Piggy by pushing down a rock with, "delirious abandonment," (Golding, 180). After his death no one in Jack’s tribe had any remorse for Piggy nor Ralph, showing that they are willing to kill and enjoy it. Golding’s message by this, shows that when in total abandonment of Government and society, humans are willing to kill anything. In brief, the novel, Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, shows that without adults on the island, the boys became vicious, disorderly, and evil.
Published in 1954, Graham Greene’s short story “The Destructors” focuses on a gang of teenagers who decide to destroy an old man’s home. Greene’s complicated story introduces multiple themes and interpretive possibilities, but the major theme of the story centers around the conflict between the gang, the Wormsley Common Gang, and the elderly occupant of the home they decided to destroy, Mr. Thomas, or “Old Misery.” This theme can be broken down into four sub-themes relating to how each side of this conflict is changed by the destruction of the home. Sponsored Link Google Domains Easy to get online with simple pricing and features from Google. www.google.com/domains Loss of Innocence As with other stories written about post-WWII children -- most notably, William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” -- “The Destructors” deals extensively with the gang members’ slow, but inevitable loss of innocence. The story’s main protagonist, Trevor, called "T" by the other boys, is a prime example of this, having moved into the neighborhood after his family’s sudden loss in social status.
They create a "unique vision of the world" shaped, Kelly argues, by Greene's "personal demons," including "a sense of betrayed innocence; an authoritarian and puritanical father; clever school bullies; fear of the dark, birds, and water; fear of and fascination with sexuality; fear of boredom." Kelly aims to demonstrate, then, that Greene's short fiction "serves as a means of exercising or restraining these demons"; that, moreover, "the entire fabric" of his short fiction "reveals a continuous psychological
The mad man killed the old man and then cut him up and put him under the floorboards of the house. In 'The Tell Tale Heart' the main character remains nameless, genderless, and ageless, he thinks that he has done the right thing by killing the old man and that he got rid of the 'evil eye'. The main character is very confident about what he has done and think that he had a very good reason for killing the old man which was, he didn't like the way his eyes looked and because he thought that the one eye was evil. We can see evidence of that in lines 10 - 14 where he says: 'I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this!