The Destructors is a short story written by Graham Greene published in 1954. It tells the story of how a gang named "Wormsley Common Gang", destroys the last house surviving the WWII in a parking lot. Leaded by a boy called T, short for Thomas, destroy from the inside the house of Old Misery, who's actual name is mister Thomas.
The story is created by black humor. first revenging an attempt to "bribe" the gang by mister Thomas, the gang starts hitting his wall with a ball. Later the Gang is convinced by T, who has severe problems caused by the war, that it would be more fun to destroy his house from the inside. The actual story can be used to describe how damaged were the lives of young kids after a war. The jokes that are seen in the book are, in my point of view, were not funny but made me feel sympathetic with Mr Thomas, the book finishes with a lorry driver laughing at his misery.
Monday 25 May 2009
The Destructors (Jose Maria)
The Destructors is a short story written by Graham Green. It talks about a group of boys which plan to destroy Mr. Thomas house while he is away. and he IS a good person to the, he offers them sweets and they don't trust him, they think they aregoing to be rotten or have some kind of poison in it. It uses black humour to make it 'funny'.
I personally don't find it funny, its not that i didnt like it, but i think its not funny to read how they destroy a poor mans house. This happens because when you laugh at somebody when bad things happen to him, you usually know him or are related to it. This story just happens too fast and you don´t even have time to relate emotionally to Old Misery, you just know that he is a nice peron and doesn´t deserve the punishment.
In this case you just feel pitty for him because he is a good man and all he gets in exchange is loosing his house. I think this specific situation does not apply to black humour because its kind of sad. It's also kind of disturbing that they actually enjoydestrying Old Misery's (Mr. Thomas) house. Anyway, its an entretaining story which promises to entretain and some people might find it funny; some people won't.
I personally don't find it funny, its not that i didnt like it, but i think its not funny to read how they destroy a poor mans house. This happens because when you laugh at somebody when bad things happen to him, you usually know him or are related to it. This story just happens too fast and you don´t even have time to relate emotionally to Old Misery, you just know that he is a nice peron and doesn´t deserve the punishment.
In this case you just feel pitty for him because he is a good man and all he gets in exchange is loosing his house. I think this specific situation does not apply to black humour because its kind of sad. It's also kind of disturbing that they actually enjoydestrying Old Misery's (Mr. Thomas) house. Anyway, its an entretaining story which promises to entretain and some people might find it funny; some people won't.
Monday 11 May 2009
0 to 200 in 6 seconds (Joke)
Bob was in trouble. He forgot his wedding anniversary. His wife wasreally pissed.She told him "Tomorrow morning, I expect to find a gift in thedriveway that goes from 0 to 200 in 6 seconds AND IT BETTER BE THERE !!"
The next morning he got up early and left for work. When his wife wokeup, she looked out the window and sure enough there was a boxgift-wrapped in the middle of the driveway.Confused, the wife put on her robe and ran out to the driveway, broughtthe box back in the house.She opened it and found a brand new bathroom scale.
Bob has been missing since Friday.
The thing that makes this joke so funny is that you werent expecting that kind of gift, since you can tell that bob´s wife wanted a car. We assume that beacause when yoiu buy a car they usually tell you how fast can it reach 100 or 200 km or miles in seconds. This is why when she recieves a bathroom scale it is so funny. Furthermore, because bob has been missing since friday, we assume that his wife got really angry and she probably did something really bad to him. Probably killed him.
The next morning he got up early and left for work. When his wife wokeup, she looked out the window and sure enough there was a boxgift-wrapped in the middle of the driveway.Confused, the wife put on her robe and ran out to the driveway, broughtthe box back in the house.She opened it and found a brand new bathroom scale.
Bob has been missing since Friday.
The thing that makes this joke so funny is that you werent expecting that kind of gift, since you can tell that bob´s wife wanted a car. We assume that beacause when yoiu buy a car they usually tell you how fast can it reach 100 or 200 km or miles in seconds. This is why when she recieves a bathroom scale it is so funny. Furthermore, because bob has been missing since friday, we assume that his wife got really angry and she probably did something really bad to him. Probably killed him.
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