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The Destructors Essay

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In the story, “The Destructors” by Graham Greene, the author's position is that humans are inherently good.The author argues that humans can behave badly due to their circumstances of their lives and being in a gang is a release of anger for them. Graham Greene In the story emphasized that whatever your surroundings are, it will drastically affect your actions, good or bad.For example, the story emerges in aftermath of world war 2, so the kids are used to this way of living.It displays how these kids have so much tension.They feel life is meaningless and being in the gang is a way of getting away from real life.The kids don't know any better, and their release of anger at the world is to destroy and be cruel without purposes to people.An example …show more content…

I agree with the author's stance that humans might behave badly but they are not inherently evil people.Everyone in life has some ups and downs and some people react to their downs differently.Some people react with violence or aggression to bad situations, especially if the living conditions were violent like the setting in the story.For example, Trevor has more knowledge than the other gang members, but he's the most violent out of the gang.It was his ideas to destroy old Misery's house.I believe he acts this way because his parents had good and well earning jobs, as evident by this quote “the fact that his father, a former architect and present clerk, had come down in the world and, his mother considered herself better than the neighbors”.This quote illustrates to us that something must have happened to Trevor family that they took a huge financial loss and end up living in this poor area.So, Trevor, unlike the other gang members, wasn't born to this, he had a better upbringing than the other gang members.He had a fall from grace.This is probably made Trevor feel like was meaningless and overall made him more frustrated and violent and being a criminal is how he copes with his new life.In my life, there were times I was really upset and depressed and felt life was meaningless.I dealt with it by not talking to anyone, just being in my own lane and by playing sports and video games that is my release, but everyone deals with issues

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