The Destructors (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Graham Greene
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The early 1950's
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: T. (Trevor), Blackie, Mr. Thomas
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Class conflict, Teenagers, Crime or criminals, Gangs, youth, London, Houses, mansions, or manors, Architecture or architects, Vandalism
- Locales: London, England
The Story
Amid the lingering London ruins of the bombing raids of World War II, a gang of adolescent boys pass their summer holidays carrying out various projects of collective mischief. They are the inhabitants of a neighborhood known as Wormsley Common, one of the poorest sections of the city. They meet and play in a communal parking lot, which adjoins a battered but stately eighteenth century house. The house, more than two hundred years old, stands alone, “like a jagged tooth,” while its neighbors lie in wartime rubble. Blackie, the hitherto undisputed leader, is...
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