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These past few years of highschool have had its ups and downs, but overall it's been amazing. I'd like to thank my friends and family for always believing in me. Congratulations to the grads of 2013, see you all in 10 years!
A discriminating reader may take pleasure in reading "The Destructors", over an immature reader. A discriminating reader is a reader that takes deep pleasure in fiction that deals with life significantly, expects characters, plot and themes that are complex or realistic and that may challenge his or her beliefs and view of reality. This means that a discriminative reader would enjoy reading interpretive literature, like "The Destructors". "The Destructors" will appeal to a discriminating reader because it deals with life problems and events that have happened, a deeper meaning and the theme and the story challenges beliefs and views of reality.

"The Destructors" demonstrates life problems and events that have happened in history, this intrigues a discriminative reader into wanting to read the book or story. The story shows life problems, where there are gangs that are wanting to make trouble and let loose; just have freedoms and not let others or themselves have special treatment. An examples of this is when Old Misery offers then gang three packages of smarties and the it's stood there "puzzled and perturbed by this action and tried to explain it away. 'Bet someone dropped them and he picked 'em up,'." They tried to think of all different reasons why Mr. Thomas would do this and they figured it was a bribe. This would make a discriminative reader keep reading, as the story is also set time is during the London blitz were bombs destroyed hundreds of house and places. Not only does a discriminative reader become interested by life problems and historical events, but also by the theme and deeper meaning.

A discriminative reader, unlike an immature reader, can figure out the deeper meaning or theme of a story easily and doing this keeps

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