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    characters involved in a single compelling action.” (Kennedy & Gioia, 2013, p. 1493) Short stories have all the dynamic characters, interesting settings, suspenseful plots and conflicts, and the surprising resolutions as full length novels. “The Destructors” and “The Lottery” are short stories full of internal and external conflict as well as senseless violence. Effect of Tradition – Comparison and Contrast Traditions are the ties that bind many groups together. Many times traditions bring happy memories

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    When I first read "The Destructors" by Graham Greene, conveys the idea that humans has an ability to destroying instead of reconstructing. The concept of the story lingered in my mind as to how veridical it is. Destruction is a form of creation in a way that it makes way for a new future. A recent event to reflect on this concept of destruction would be the Charlie Hebdo protesters in Niger. Thousands of Muslims were angered by the offenses towards the Prophet Mohammad and the ban of the meeting

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    When we analyze a manuscript, we most frequently are trying to decide what the conflict is and what it means within the rest of the book. Two stories, “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Destructors”, have extremely thought provoking narratives. The conflicts found within “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Destructors”, while being completely

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    In the two short stories, “The Destructors” by Graham Greene and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, are great conflict, a twisting and turning plot, symbolism, irony, and abrupt and unexpected endings of devastation leaving the characters is ruins and the readers in awe. From the beginning in both stories, the setting seemed to be of a normal manner for the characters. Their society around them has molded them into what they have become and help set their series of events that they act out. For “The

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    This is an objective paper whose main objective is to precisely and authentically compare and contrast the pair of highly renowned fictitious compositions: The destructors by Graham Greene and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. Being original works of two different authors, the short stories exhibit clear lines of differences and similarities as will be examined in this paper. The paper will concentrate on the themes explored by the authors in the two stories in a bid to compare and contrast both

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    "The Destructors" written by Graham Greene as a third person view. The story set in London nine years after the end of World War II. People survived from "The Blitz". The Blitz "was Nazi Germany's sustained aerial bombing campaign against Britain in World War Two."(The Blitz) Everything was in chaos, people lost their home, slept in the underground station and lost their hope for the future. The story is about a group of teenage boys who formed a gang and call themselves as the "Wormsley Common

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    Destructors Construction 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

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    The short stories of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Destructors by Graham Greene” both had very interesting plots and unexpected endings. The plots of both stories are different but the meaning are the same. The climax of the two stories are built to keep you in suspense and as you get to the end and its reveals the irony of the stories. The characters in the stories set the presence, pace and tone, the characters environments reveal the difficulty within the plots of the stories and why

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    The contrast of both stories “The Lottery” by Jackson (1949) and “The Destructors” by Greene (1977) is reflective through the emotions of the words in the story. The dispensation of characters in two stories "The Lottery" and "The Destructors" both represents a flow of compare and contrast in the character division. A character is a mean to display the emotions, feelings and things that are sometimes inexpressible. Tessie Hutchinson is the women character in the Lottery, the story clearly demonstrates

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    Kids get money from their parents and have no idea where it comes from. To them, money is infinite. Everyone has been a kid at one point or another and have asked the question: Why don’t you just swipe your card, you’re not paying money? In The Destructors, there is a scene that stood out to this principle. While dismantling the house T finds a bunch of British pounds and instead of keeping them, he burns them. At first glance, it seems crazy for the boys not to take the money. The setting of the

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