In “The Destructors,” Graham Greene uses T’s leadership and ideas to show a more intelligent, righteous, and organized way to commit crimes in post-war Britain. When T takes over as the leader a big change happens as all crimes the gang commits are now less violent than they would have been. While Old Misery is locked in the toilet, one boy tells him “We want you to be comfortable tonight.” This quote is juxtaposed with the noises of his house being torn down, but while they are destroying his own masterpiece that he built from the ground up, they have care about him being comfortable. This puts even more emphasis on an earlier quote from T, “There’d be no fun if I hated him.” This can be used to even further explain how they want him to be …show more content…
This shows how even in their darkest hour as a gang, they’re still righteous in some ways even tearing down a man’s house. It can be assumed that while they are destroying his house, they don't wish to steal from him since everyone is hurting in the rubble of the nazi bombs. On the other hand, under T’s leadership the gang quickly evolves from the “happy-go-lucky days” to putting off an “impression of organization.” After the war, and during it, many people lost their non-important jobs and had to take a less paying job, such as T’s dad who used to be an architect and was now a store clerk. So even though his dad is no longer an architect, T still takes after him in his leadership ability. In post-war Britain, learning from your family is more important than ever since most kids don’t attend school anymore. Finally, even without school T’s intelligence is shown off by his street smarts but not by traditional book smarts. “We’d pull it down” and “there’s nothing holding it up” were two of T’s observations after only being in the house for a couple