Thesis For The Destructors

The main question for the thesis can be analyzed through various topics and texts, as such I chose ‘The Destructors’ by Graham Greene. Befor in the introduction, I gave you an insight as to what the story was about. I will now analyze the text and use it as a whole to answer the question at hand. Set in the mid-1950s, the story is about the Wormsley Common Gang, a boys' gang who is named after the pl“All war is a symptom of man’s failure as thinking animal.”(John Steinbeck). This quote clearly talks to man’s personality and how we as people have not evolved at all as we still resort to violence when we fail to negotiate through peace talks. We are supposed to be the evolved species on this earth but we are in fact destroying it along with its

The book talks to life of children in the 1950’s. The story is set in the ruins of London where the Wormley Gang takes on an opportunity to destroy an old man’s house, which had survived the bombing. Most of the gang has somehow been affected by the war and the you can see that they have been affected mentally and physically. So, when I thought a lot more about this I then thought up the question that I would use as the first question which would lead to the main question for the thesis, ‘What are the psychological effects inflicted on children by

Part of innocence is surrender to the imagination of different things. In “The Destructors,” however, the imagination is used for destruction showing how far the children have fallen. T, uses his imagination to devise a plan that would destroy Misery’s house. Greene writes that the boys “worked with the seriousness of creators – and destruction after all is a form of creation(Graham 9). A kind of imagination had seen this house as it had now become.”(Graham 9). The imagination used to plot the destruction of the house is the opposite of the imagination used to create