Essays Tagged: "destructor"
Graham Greene: The Destructors, A Shocking Accident, and The Blue Film. This is a biographical essay on Graham Greene, which critiques as well as explains three of his short stories.
Graham GreeneThe Destructors, A Shocking Accident, and The Blue Film.Graham Greene has a style of writing, which inco ... gs.Three works of the short story genre that Graham Green created that are worthy of review are The Destructors, A Shocking Accident, and The Blue Film. All three stories have a common characteristic. ... sense of reality. There is nothing too extraordinarily unbelievable in the situations involved.The Destructors is about a gang of children and a plan, which their new leader has them partake in. The ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Essay on Trevor's Actions as a Means of Resolving his Conflicts in the Short Story "The Destructors".
"The Destructors" is a very intriguing short story in which the author, Graham Greene, narrates the pligh ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"The Destructors" written by Graham Greene.
Graham Greene's "The Destructors" is a short story that takes place in London nine years after the conclusion of World Wa ... he house was merely a small piece belonging to a big puzzle. Destructions equal power, becoming the destructor means becoming powerful. The need for power had started it all. Beginning with the German ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The Source of All Fears
The source of fear has shifted from nature's elements to the destructive minds in our midst. These destructors, driven by desire for power and retribution, persuade others to follow them and carry de ... uade others to follow them and carry destructive actions. The protagonist from Graham Greene's "The Destructors" is a teenage boy with great talent in leadership and planning but pointed in a dangerou ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Two Different Reactions to the Adult World: Youths in the Works of Graham Greene
Graham Greene, in his works, "The Destructors" and "The Basement Room", presents two youthful characters, Trevor and Master Philip, wh ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The Rocking Horse Winner VS The Destructors
The Rocking Horse Winner vs. The DestructorsOne may under the impression that having large quantities of money or a lot of material p ... also exemplifies the pursuit of material satisfaction, in the form of notoriety, in the story "The Destructors". However, this also leads down a path to destruction. Lawrence and Greene argue that th ... 11). The money from Paul does not quench her thirst, but rather only makes her more thirsty.In "The Destructors", Trevor brings up the idea to destroy an old man's house. The Wormsley Common car-park ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
We usually think that stories written by one author are related to one another. By making close reference to 'Twenty-One Stories' discuss how far this statement is true.
nd danger, also mentioned in 'The Basement Room', 'I Spy', 'Brother', 'Alas, Poor Maling', and 'The Destructors' with different meaning. Greene is the master of naming characters which very often stan ... n itself ironic since what the characters aim to do is to avoid work altogether; escape it. In 'The Destructors', the ironic tone is set because instead of the children being afraid of Mr Thomas, it i ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"A Separate Peace" by John Knowles is not an Anti-War Novel
caused by the war, it seems that the novel's overall perception of World War II is that it is not a destructor of purity and innocent, guileless enjoyment, but rather just a significant factor for the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American