The Destructors Summary
Graham Greene

Biography EssayGraham Greene was a writer who lived his life under the torment of faith. In his fictional world, where evil dominates, good-bad men are put in situations where their individual capacit... Read more

A film actor who has found success in both Canada and the United States, Graham Greene (born ca. 1952) is a full-blood Oneida, born on the Six Nations Reserve in southwestern Ontario in the early 1950... Read more

Graham Greene is a writer who, like Fëdor Dostoevski, has lived his life under the torment of faith. When the priestly Alyosha Karamazov kisses his brother, the skeptical Ivan, at the end of the... Read more

Much of what is known of Graham Greene's life, character, and reading is found in his essays. As he himself points out, almost half of Ways of Escape (1980), the second volume of his autobiography, is... Read more

Books were a lifelong passion for Graham Greene. Book collecting, the ownership of books, and writing in books absorbed Greene, who haunted the auction rooms and secondhand bookshops of provincial Eng... Read more

Set in the ruins of London after World War II, Graham Greene's "The Destructors" speaks of a new form of creation as a group of young delinquents search for a reputation that will draw attention from ... Read more

In "The Destructors" Grahm Grene takes us into the lives of a group of young boys living in a town devastated by war. They call themselves the Wormsley Common gang, after the area where they live. Th... Read more

Not long after the Second World War had ended, children returned home after not seeing their parents for some time. They had been separated and sent away for refuge in other countries. In London, Eng... Read more

Characters Trevor (T) : A silent, decided, and seemingly frustrated teenager . He speaks nothing more than needed and " yes" or " no" forms most of his answers. He becomes a member of the gang ... Read more