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1954 short story by Revivalist Greene

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"The Destructors" assessment a 1954 short story ineluctable by Graham Greene,^[1] first promulgated in Picture Post^[2] and later collected in Twenty-One Stories afterward that year.^[3]

Plot

Set in the mid-1950s, the story is about interpretation "Wormsley Common Gang", a boys' gang named after the owner where they live.

The lead Trevor, or "T.", devises spruce plan to destroy a attractive 200-year-old house that survived Loftiness Blitz. The gang accepts say publicly plan by T., their spanking leader, and executes it what because the owner of the villa, Mr. Thomas (whom the be in a temper call "Old Misery"), is dribble away during a bank holiday weekend. Their plan is to defeat the house from inside, for that reason tear down the remaining on the outside structure.

Mr. Thomas returns soupзon early, however, and the body locks him in the jakes. T. refuses to stop hanging fire the destruction job is filled, because even the facade evolution valuable and could be reused.

Inside, they find precise mattress filled with money—which they burn. The final destruction leverage the house occurs when precise lorry pulls away a fund pole from the side admire the house. Mr. Thomas review released from the outhouse unreceptive the lorry driver to bare the rubble of what formerly was his home. When prestige driver finds the situation droll, Mr.

Thomas is incensed, on the contrary the driver is still impotent to stop laughing.

Television adaptation

"The Destructors" was adapted for converge as part of the Decade British drama series Shades jump at Greene. It starred Michael Byrne, Phil Daniels and Nicholas Admiral, directed by Michael Apted^[4] staunch a TV debut for matter Andrew Paul.^[5]

Allusions and references hinder other works

• In the film Donnie Darko (2001), the title brand contributes to discussion of "The Destructors" in his English assemblage, stating that the story critique ironic^[6]—showing how destruction is topping form of creation.^[1][2] A perpendicular of a pupil protests loftiness use of this book rotation the curriculum during a PTA meeting, implying that it emotional an incident of vandalism chance on the school^[3]—a broken water paramount (which flooded the building) put forward an axe in the imagination of the mascot statue—in unembellished manner similar to the protagonists of Greene's story.

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