"The Destructors"

Trevor’s Revenge
In “The Destructors,” by Graham Greene one thing comes to mind Trevor. Through the struggles of a country and a cry for help a quiet boy turns into a possessed leader. Trevor changes the direction of the Wormsley Common Gang from pranks to disaster. Trevor’s destroying of Old Misery’s home has a more detailing reason behind it then a prank.
The story is set in London nine years after the end a World War II. The Wormsley Common Gang is a unity of twelve young boys. The newest recruit becomes a leader and gives the gang the biggest thrill on the eve of August Bank Holiday. A quiet boy who just joined the Wormsley Common Gang in the summer changes dramatically though the story. A boy who “never wasted a word even to tell him name until that was required of him by the rules”(Graham 116) sits back and just goes with the gangs boyish every day pranks. His name is Trevor or T. to the gang. Trevor’s father was an architect and became a clerk ...