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Reading Response Journal- "The Destructors"

In my opinion, the main idea of the story, "The Destructors" by Graham Greene is that when humans let their own personal feelings get in the way of doing what is right, it leads to a feeling of detriment and dissatisfaction. Also the Wormsley Common Gang chose poor decisions that affected their innocence throughout the entire story. These poorly made decisions took away their youth innocence and replaced it with selfishness and destruction. In the story, Trevor, or as his gang called him, "T." desperately wants to destroy Mr. Thomas's house by completely destructing it from the inside, out in an organized fashion. T. and the rest of his loyal gang members are young and immature, with no regard to anyone else's feelings but their own. The gang had decided that by ruining the only house that was left after the bombings post World War II, would bring them to think that they themselves were rebellious. They're just little boys who want to......

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