Symbolism In The Destructors

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Essay One Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” was published in 1954. It took place in London nine years after the conclusion of World War II (1939-1945). Greene was born in 1904, just outside of London where he lived in that city at various stages of his life. In “The Destructors”, There are three main characters we are going to be discussing. The first character is Blackie. Blackie was the leader of the gang whom loses his leadership to Trevor. Then there is Mr. Thomas who symbolizes Trevor in diverse ways. Also, there is Trevor, who is the protagonist of the whole story, in which he becomes the leader. This essay is based on three different symbols throughout the story the house, the money and the burning of the money. The glossary …show more content…

Blackie loses his membership to Trevor as everybody in the gang wanted to destroy Mr. Thomas and he didn’t think it was a clever idea. The reason they wanted to destroy the house Mr. Thomas leaved in was because he stopped them at the market and Mr. Thomas says “’You belong to the lot that play in the car-park?”’ (106). Mr. Thomas also states “’I got some chocolates,”’. (106) The gang took Mr. Thomas as asking them that as way in trying to bribe them and for them to stop bouncing balls on his wall. Blackie then states “’ We’ll show him we don’t take bribes.”’ (106) So, the next morning they decided to get up early to go and bounce the ball only to find out there was no sign of Mr. Thomas. The next day Blackie had set for the gang to spread into pairs and see how many free rides they could get from the thoughtless conductors. Trevor was in where in sight at first and then he showed up and Blackie asks, “’Where you been T.?”’ (107) and Trevor answers,” I’ve been there.”(107) He says that because he has been at Mr. Thomas house looking at it after he said he ringed the doorbell and told Mr. Thomas he wanted to see his house and Mr. Thomas invited him in. Trevor then told stories on the house and how he knows Mr. Thomas won’t be there. Trevor then tells the gang he wants to pull the house down. They had a vote on it, so Blackie says, “’It’s proposed that tomorrow and Monday we destroy old

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