The Destructors

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kids call Old Misery, and was one of the only houses to escape the bombs. Christopher Wren was an architect that, as T mentions, built St. Paul's Cathedral in London. This is a crucial piece of information because St. Paul's also miraculously escaped bombing during the war. Knowing this, we clearly establish that Greene is using the house and kids to represent the war. This further demonstrates how green uses his characters to show the destructiveness of mankind because not only do the kids physically destroy the house but they also destroy the idea of hope and beauty that remained in the neighborhood, furthermore Greene uses this to show how their disregard for beauty leads them to destroy the house but at the same time they create something humorous.
Thomas meets up with the gang in the lot one day, and gives them some candy he doesn't want. The gang is confused by this because they only see him as a mean old man. They begin looking for reasons that he might have done this, ...

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