In the short story the Destructors written by Graham Greene, the story expresses how a gang of young boys destroy one of the most beautiful houses in their neighborhood. What differentiate the Destructor from other story is the title is a symbolism of social issues of the aftermath of World War Two. Indeed, what makes destructors literacy fiction is the use of metaphor, unsympathetic character and mystery.
The use of metaphor makes destructor literacy fiction. For, Instance the quote,” We’d be like worms, don’t you see, in an apple.” The gang decided to destroy the house from inside out. Just like worm start to eat inside the apple and leave the skin or last. This metaphor refers to the part where love is hooey. In order to do something emotions
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Unlike in a commercial fiction, the protagonist is seen as the hero or in general the good person. Trevor on the other hand is complex and breaks the rules. Instead of being portrayed as a gullible and innocent person. Trevor is presented to us as a person who has philosophical ideas and has complex ideas. For example, when Trevor states, “All that hate and love its soft and hooey." This causes the reader to feel unsympathetic about the character but as well question why he does it. This technique is called indirect characterization. A reader is forced to infer a character by the action, words or even thoughts a character has to say or do. The word “all”, “soft” and “hooey “make the reader infer that his actions are malicious because he is destroying a house, with no motive. But as we read along the story Trevor intention in destroying the house shows his complexity. He doesn’t destroy the house because of its beauty. He destroys the house because the house is an obstacle in creating equality, thing the Trevor is seeking for. By the action and saying, of Trevor is seen more mysterious, which causes the reader to want to know more about him. In addition we notice that Trevor can be considered a round character because he possesses both good and bad traits. His good trait would be he fights for equality, but he does y destroying a house .Trevor is an example why Destructors is considered …show more content…
For Instance, the quote “beautiful “- that worried him-that belonged to a class world.” The mystery starts to build up from this point because we as reader ask, “If it is so beautiful why destroy it?” As the story develops, we start to figure out the boys, had no real intention, but Trevor was the key in destroying the house. Similarly, Old Misery didn’t give any motives for the gang to destroy the house. What was the real reason in destroying the house was the house represented the social class. The purpose of destroying, the house was the frustration and anger to know that there is a division among all people. This is the point, where the author wants us to question ourselves, but as well society. Is it right to classify people by what they have? Is it correct to abandon people, when they are in the most need? In other words, the story leaves a bigger meaning and message. The purpose is to question ourselves not to have a happy ending that is what makes it literacy
DICTION “that funereal tree by the river” (Knowles 81) This phrase is used when describing the accident by the tree that shatters Finny’s leg. While Finny did not physically die, the accident permanently ended Finny’s athletic career, killing it. By naming the tree the “funereal tree,” Knowles creates a sad demeanor.
The other Wes Moore by Wes Moore. The novel is about two boys that grew up on the same neighborhood but toke different paths in their life. Two boys that grew up in the same neighborhood but toke complete different paths like author Wes joining the army and becoming an author while the other Wes takes the wrong path and ends up life sentenced. The purpose of the novel is to show that being in a bad environment doesn’t always impact how your life will turn out, it all depends on the effort that you make for that path that you want. The other Wes Moore, portrays the argument of how nature vs nurture determines someone individual success.
This self-description of the narrator says it all. He gives a brutal, yet inflated description of himself and his friends that gives the reader a very round main character.
The text uses main character, Clare, to demonstrate how an individual's abandonment of their own race in pursuit of better life ultimately leaves them feeling lost in society. Clare represents this pursual of a better life, by passing in order to marry into
One literary device that he chose to used in order to capture the woman’s situation was Irony. The Irony is created by the woman’s house. One would expect that if she wanted to leave her house and explore the world beyond the one she knew, she would be
In the short story "The Destructors" we are introduced to a group of young men that seem to be surrounded by destruction. The setting of this story takes place after the World War. It depicts an atmosphere of dilapidated buildings destroyed by bombs. As the story unfolds one can see that the boy’s surroundings have caused them, to have a pretty negative outlook.
He receives a tour of the house from Mr. Thomas, the homeowner, and becomes obsessed with taking the house apart, but there is no given reason for his need to destroy the house. Throughout the text, there are small hints of Trevor’s life at home.
Throughout the novel, the reoccurring theme of futile hope, all comes down to the same thing. It's the "picturesque" war; it's the realization of escape through "sleep"; it's the vain love. They all point to one thing; nothing. It is the reinforcement of fatalism and nihilism through this tragedy which is the demise of a "lost generation".
As humans, we understand the harsh reality that is in our world. In Graham Greene’s short story, “The Destructors,” a gang of young British boys are living in a post-WWII world. They have never known what it is to live in “normal” London—buildings still intact, having enough food, less homelessness. The gang’s harmless delinquency throughout the story deepens the readers’ understanding of the effects of war on humanity by illustrating the loss of innocence in these boys and specifically revealing the damage in the both superficial and embedded in their lives. The theme of emotional damage construed in the story is literary in the sense that it explains a somber truth: World War II initiated the loss of innocence in the youth of the countries involved.
In the short story The Destructors, Graham Greene uses symbolism to illustrate the negative effects of childhood neglect. The story follows a gang of young boys as they plan the demolition of a historical house built by the wealthy Christopher Wren. The story’s most symbolic character, and the gang’s now leader, Trevor or T. has been neglected by his busy father and socialite mother causing him to have a childhood lacking nurture. After his father loses his job and becomes a clerk Trevor’s family drops on the social latter, which seems to have a positive effect on T. because the absence of parenting lead him to hate the rich and become emotionless. Greene shows T.’s lack of emotion in the conversation he has with
Through characterisation, the author is able to express the main idea of disempowerment and also allowing us as readers to feel discontented and upset towards the main character.
Imagine yourself shipwrecked upon an uninhabited island. The experience of being stranded will cause you to pose many questions, with the possibility of only one of those questions to being answered. One answered question is: what is the purpose of literature? Northrop Frye, within “Motive for Metaphor”, uses the analogy of being within an uninhabited island to examines the purpose of literature by connecting it to the purposes of language and their use within the different worlds and levels of the mind Frye sees present.
I believe that this novel was meant to be read by people who are old enough to understand different struggles people sometimes need to endure to achieve goal. If someone were not to understand this concept then the novel would be “empty,” for them.
The novel starts with the primer of Dick and Jane that promises the perfect family and home for which Pecola never stops searching in the book: “Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty. Here is the family. Mother, Father, Dick, and Jane live in the green-and-white house. They are very happy” (7). But as these lines are repeated in several paragraphs, it becomes an unpunctuated, frantic stream of language suggesting that behind this comfort myth lies a disrupting and disordered reality. The house is an antidote to being outdoors. “Knowing that there was such a thing as outdoors bred in us a hunger for property, for ownership. The firm possession of a yard, a porch, a grape arbor” (18). This home desire is also one to curb the funkiness or the excess of the lives of the characters. But home as paradise is quickly translated into prison: “What they do not know is that this plain brown girl will build her nest stick by stick, make it her own inviolable world, and stand guard over its every plant, weed, and doily, even against him” (69). The haouse is a jail and a respite simultaneously, just like the community the house appears to promise comfort and rest but fails to do so for Pecola in
After this point, it seems that the destruction has taken its course and there is nothing left but emptiness and everyone “battered bleak of brain all drained of Brilliance in the drear light of Zoo.” The last “fantastic Book,” “open door,” and “piece of mental furniture” represent any remaining originality, opportunities, and ideas that were left being “thrown out the tenement window” and “slammed shut” by society and the capitalist system.