Discussing 'The Destructors' by Graham Greene.

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The Destructors

The story is called ‘ The Destructors’ and it is written by

Graham Greene.  The story is about is about a gang destroying

a house and it is set at the site of the last bomb of the first

Blitz suggesting it is during World War 2.  The boys in the

story want to be notorious and infamous like the 1940

gangsters and they want the fame of the Wormsley Common

gang. The characters in the story are Trevor and Blackie who

are the main characters and leaders of the gang Mike,  Jo,

Summers and some others that aren’t stated.

                

                Trevor has only recently joined the gang at the

beginning of the summer holidays  due to him coming

down in the world from upper class to lower class because of

 his father who used to be a architect and present clerk lost

his job.  Trevor only just joining the gang tells us that he is

trying to gain authority but doesn’t have it at the start. The

gang are impressed with Trevor’s brains and they say ‘he never

wasted a word’ and he astonishes them all when he is late for

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the meeting when the ask where he has been he says he has

been to Old Misery’s house. The gang are then impressed with

his knowledge as he said Old misery is away over the Bank

holiday and they are then intrigued with his ideas about pulling

pulling the house down. The gang are then impressed with

Trevor’s organisation skills. The gang Shorten Trevor’s name to

T. because Trevor is a name to be mocked and it shows they

obviously want him in the gang else ...

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