The Destructors Sparknotes
Steven Dodd
Professor Kang
English 101
28May2015
Peace Meets Ciaos The short story "The Destructors" by Graham Greene collides with good and evil with the surrounds full of destruction. Many scholars have tried to decipher the mean behind this story and have all agreed that it is the best story that Green has ever written. With the knowing and shocking outcomes readers will ponder the nature of what is read. "Graham Greene portrays a world in transition, a society moving away from respect for culture toward a delight in chaos."(Clarke 1) Graham Greene not only believes God is evil, but God is Satan. The author Graham Greene did not have a pleasant childhood with his father being the school head master and being bullied most of his adolescent life, the resemblance seems clear. Some scholars say the characters in Greene's stories are past encounters from his childhood. "As the murderer of Greene's childhood and as the arch-betrayer, Carter would appear in many guises throughout Greene's stories and novels and become one of the powerful demons Greene would spend his life as a …show more content…
When speaking about the area in which the gang lives and even about certain individuals in the gang themselves, the color is grey. Grey is used through the story to represent just how plane and unsociably accepted they are. "T. transforms colorful substances into gray shadows. When the gang finishes, all that exists is a "shattered hollow house with nothing left but the walls" Gray is an appropriate color for emptiness."(Kolin 2) The entire town is full of emptiness an emptiness that Satan himself created. Every action was to its dullest moments, the sun itself was set under a gray stormy sky. Gray not only showed the cities emptiness but the events that lead up to it. The city was bombed do to the events of World War II. Nothing was suppose to survive here, just gray ashes that covered the land and
Professor Kang
English 101
28May2015
Peace Meets Ciaos The short story "The Destructors" by Graham Greene collides with good and evil with the surrounds full of destruction. Many scholars have tried to decipher the mean behind this story and have all agreed that it is the best story that Green has ever written. With the knowing and shocking outcomes readers will ponder the nature of what is read. "Graham Greene portrays a world in transition, a society moving away from respect for culture toward a delight in chaos."(Clarke 1) Graham Greene not only believes God is evil, but God is Satan. The author Graham Greene did not have a pleasant childhood with his father being the school head master and being bullied most of his adolescent life, the resemblance seems clear. Some scholars say the characters in Greene's stories are past encounters from his childhood. "As the murderer of Greene's childhood and as the arch-betrayer, Carter would appear in many guises throughout Greene's stories and novels and become one of the powerful demons Greene would spend his life as a …show more content…
When speaking about the area in which the gang lives and even about certain individuals in the gang themselves, the color is grey. Grey is used through the story to represent just how plane and unsociably accepted they are. "T. transforms colorful substances into gray shadows. When the gang finishes, all that exists is a "shattered hollow house with nothing left but the walls" Gray is an appropriate color for emptiness."(Kolin 2) The entire town is full of emptiness an emptiness that Satan himself created. Every action was to its dullest moments, the sun itself was set under a gray stormy sky. Gray not only showed the cities emptiness but the events that lead up to it. The city was bombed do to the events of World War II. Nothing was suppose to survive here, just gray ashes that covered the land and