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This 3 page paper discusses the theme of self preservation in Greene's short story "The Destructors." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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in doing so. As they wreck it, they lock the owner in his outdoor privy; when he is released the next morning by a truck driver, that driver inadvertently pulls
whats left of the house down because the boys have tied a rope to his truck. Its funny and horrifying at the same time. But although the story can be
told at that level, it has much deeper meanings. Greenes central idea, presented half-way through the story, is that "destruction after all is a form of creation" (Greene). This paper
argues that destruction in this context is also a form of self-preservation. The boys who destroy "Old Miserys" house clearly understand the enormity of what they are doing: the boy
who plans the destruction, "T" (his name is Trevor) knows that it was designed and built by Christopher Wren, and he obviously knows who Wren was (Keenan). It then becomes
important to his self-preservation to destroy something of significance, and pulling down a Wren house is tantamount to blowing up part of St. Pauls Cathedral. Why does he come up
with this audacious plan and get the others to help him carry it out? If we look at it from a childs perspective, we can see that it does have
to do with self-preservation. We know that the house stands next to their playground, and that it is the only structure left standing for blocks. It sticks up like a
"jagged tooth" in the neighborhood and there is something somehow unfair about it being the only survivor when the entire block is gone (Greene). In addition, because it is a
Wren house, it is an architectural treasure, something that again takes it out of the boys reality. It may be considered a symbol of all the things they will never
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