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`The Destructors` and `The Rocking-Horse Winner.`

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The Destructors and The Rocking-Horse Winner

Two best short stories , The Destructors and The Rocking-Horse Winner were written separately by two best authors , Greene and Lawrence . The Destructors is a short story that is part of the collection of the Twenty One Stories . It was the first to be put into collection since it have a reverse time mode of story . The Rocking-Horse Winner is said to have the title of Lawrence Best story . It was also put into

collection by Lady Cynthia Asquith

There are lot of scholars who were making a comparison between the two short stories . The comparison is being made because these two short stories were of great story . It had great characters , setting and theme and also author had great purpose that is why these two short stories were being put into comparison

Each authors ' purpose is one of the needed information to develop a comparison on the two stories . The author 's purpose is one of the basic factors why the author wrote the story or any piece . In The Destructors the author wishes to show what are the effects or impacts of the World War II in the lives or mainly the stability of lives after the World War II

On the other hand , The Rocking-Horse Winner was being written because of the author 's purpose of expressing the inhumanity of people as an effect of greed for matters . The purposes of these two different stories were seen to be expressive for the universal morals . Both have great purpose that the common goal of each author is achieved

Another story attribute that was needed to compare was the characters Characters in each story were merely needed for the purpose of understanding the differences and similarities of the characters

The main character in The Destructors is very cruel and selfish in the sense that he wanted to rule over gangs without even knowing the consequences of his plans . He also takes over young people which made the young looses their innocence

The main character in The Rocking-Horse Winner is of great determination and of optimism . But in the long run his greediness for money makes him possess the inhumanity because he does not feel the presence of the God likewise with his parents . These kinds of characters being post were very great to catch other readers ' attention

Another was the style of composition . Style of composition makes the story being more creative and brings out the interesting ideas all throughout the story . The Rocking-Horse Winner preserves the style of fairy tale like or fantasy . It also expresses the fable style of writing with the aid of the rocking horse . The Destructors uses some kind of paradox where it was used as communication tool for the gangs These styles were really fascinating that it catches critics to assess and read the stories

The Destructors and The Rocking-Horse Winner were really good stories that needed...

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