It would seem that Graham Greene expresses in his story, "The Destructors" that the greatest irony of the World War II Blitz on London is that the children of this era do not find destruction as an aberration. Rather, it seems to them the norm. This is why the boys who are lead, significantly, by an architect's son, imitate what has occurred to buildings throughout their city; for Old Misery's house to be standing seems somehow wrong to them....
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