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Use Of Metaphors In Graham Greene's The Destructors

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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 …show more content…

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

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