Graham Greene’s Blackie from “The Destructors.” At the introduction of the short story, the reader learns that Blackie is a young teen leader of the Wormsley Common Gang.(Greene,”Destructors”) Through indirect characterization Greene shows the reader that Blackie wants his gang that he is their superior by saying that he, “claimed to have heard it fall, and no one was precise enough in his dates to point out that he would have been one year old…”(Destructors) Blackie wants to impress his gang, but at the same time he wants to show them that he is better than them by lying. He knows that there was no way he could have heard the bomb go off, and he also knows no one will try to prove him wrong. Through this the reader is introduced to Blackie’s motivation that he will do whatever is necessary for his gang to
Graham Greene’s Blackie from “The Destructors.” At the introduction of the short story, the reader learns that Blackie is a young teen leader of the Wormsley Common Gang.(Greene,”Destructors”) Through indirect characterization Greene shows the reader that Blackie wants his gang that he is their superior by saying that he, “claimed to have heard it fall, and no one was precise enough in his dates to point out that he would have been one year old…”(Destructors) Blackie wants to impress his gang, but at the same time he wants to show them that he is better than them by lying. He knows that there was no way he could have heard the bomb go off, and he also knows no one will try to prove him wrong. Through this the reader is introduced to Blackie’s motivation that he will do whatever is necessary for his gang to