Destructors book review

THE DESTRUCTORS

“The destructors” is a black humor short written by Graham Green, about a gang of middle age boys in London after Second World War, where the city is very damage thanks to the Germans attacked, using their air forces to “blitz” all the city of London.

The plot of this story is about a gang called “Wormsley Common Gang” who is led by a very intelligent and meticulous but at the same time evil boy named Trevor or “T” who want to destroy one of the only houses that remain and survived the attack in the WW2. The owner of this house is an old man called Mr. Thomas also called Old Misery, this house was build nearly 200 years ago, so it have a deep sentimental value.

Trevor plans to destroy the house with no reason only by saying that it’s beautiful this mean he have an evil brain with no other pleasure that destroying things. The plan starts when Mr. Thomas is in holidays out of town for a few days. The first step of this maligneous plan is to climb the wall and get inside the house and start destroying some main structures of the house to make it collapse. Mr. Thomas return from the trip earlier and a boy see him and run to give the notice to Trevor, but he doesn’t care and keep destroying the infrastructure, But Old Misery fall into a trick planed by Trevor and couldn’t stop them, making successfully the evil plan of Trevor.

I think this book have a very good plot and is very focus and its main idea who is the pleasure of destroying things. Also Graham Green wants to use comedy and try to make the misfortunes funny.
Maybe the attitude of these boys of destroying things is expressed because they have seen a lot of violence and a lot of destruction and they have grown in this environment, so they have been influenced with this anger and rancor and jealous.

Santiago Alonso