The Destructors

1) Which character is the most dynamic? static?

2) What elements of Trevor's characterization make him well suited to lead the gang on the August Bank holiday weekend?

3) Discuss the ways in which the author manages to cloud morality within the story.

4) Explain why you think the story is called "The Destructors" rather than "The Destroyers."

1- The most dynamic character in the story The Destructors is T (Trevor). Trevor is the most dynamic character because in the beginning of the story he is more quiet and just does the jobs that he is told with minimal talk, and was said to be straight to the point with his words. As the story progressed so did Trevor he began to speak more and then was the leader of the gang for a short while which completely differs from the quiet Trevor in the beginning of the story. The most static character within the short story has to be Blackie. Blackie was always just a simple leader with simple little tasks. hwne T stepped in Blackie stepped into the background to his regular thoughts leaving himself pretty static.

2- The elements of Trevor’s characterization that makes him well suited for the bank holiday job are that he is determined to destruct the house, he has a goal and sees his work as an art, and finally used his kindness to investigate the house in the first place to get a heading of how he would approach the job.

3- The author clouds morality in a couple different ways in this story. The first way in which the author clouds morality is that Trevor thinks that it is art to destroy such an old house and that what he is doing was just another factor of man and how destruction follows humans. The other way in which the story clouds morality is that the man at the end of the story laughs at how he destroyed a house by just moving his car a couple feet. The man finds this amazing that within a blink of an eye a structure was gone. This is clouding morality because a mans house was just destroyed making him homeless.

4- I believe that the story is called the Destructors rather than the Destroyers because the title the Destructors seems more like art. It reminds me of construction which can be beautiful and unique. Another reason why I believe this story is called the destructors is that in the end of the story it is not the boys who destroy the house but the man whose car the rope is tied to.