The Destructors Analysis

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In the short story The Destructors, written by Graham Greene, they talk about a gang of young boys just after World War 2. He explains how society is responsible for these teenage delinquents because they were looking for ways to occupy themselves. Society most definitely is responsible for teenage delinquents, because when teenagers need to find something to do or if there is not much interesting activities to keep them occupied they begin to do illegal things. In the book the young gang was run by Trevor (in the book he is known as T), they begin doing non-hateful, petty and meaningless illegal acts. They first started by stealing bus rides and calculating who stole the most by the end of the day. But eventually their petty acts turn into

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