The Destructors Discussion Question Answers

1. I think the antagonist of the story is Old Misery. The protagonist is the gang or Trevor a induvidual. The main conflict of the gang and Old Misery is the destruction of the house and themes like a class warfare or jealousy.

2. The process of a total destruction before Thomas comes back causes a raising action and a suspense at the same time. The suspense is caused by questions if the make it before he comes back, if somebody else will notice.

3. The story doesn't have a happy ending from the perspective of the house owner, because his property got destroyed. For the gang and Trevor there might be a happy ending, because the achieved their goals and the got satisfied.

4. Both of these exploits offend against the law and for the gang both things are a challenge a daring.

5. It is special because Old Misery is a 200 year old building which was one of the few buildings which didn't get destroyed by the bomb attack.

6. a) the gang doesn't call Trevor by his full name, they call him T. He wants to get called T. because so the gang can't make fun about him.
b) the gang didn't want the chocolates


7. Trevor is a good leader, because he is organized and he has a plan B when Thomas comes back earlier than they thought he would come.

Vocabs

abated: His enthusiasm for playing chess abated after he had an accident.

abdicate: The pope abdicated yesterday because of his age.

balked: He balked for cleaning the bathroom.

cadence: The cadence of the song was very upbeating.

daunting:His bad grades were daunting for him to keep working hard.

eclectic: Jon bought an eclectic car which he can use for many things.

fabricated: The company fabricated shirts.

garish:The lightning was scary and garish.

hackneyed: after 10 years the story is hackneyed

idiosyncratic: The new student was idiosyncratic and weird.

maelstrom. The maelstrom pulled him underwater.

rail: the old lady railed against the young people who drive too fast.

veneer: The old house got a new veneer.

Poetry Oration

Trying to Get Through

BY ELEANOR ROSS TAYLOR

I make a knife of words.

I sit here waiting.

I play with crumbs.

Her eyes that should look

straight at me are

toward the window, glazed—

husband’s horizon?

Not armored. Only armed

with pots and pans.

Not out of arm’s reach,

beyond curtains of doorbells,

garden gates.

She puts up ironwork

in her eyes; it draws a bolt

over what’s real—

then looks at me.

I wish I’d brought my saw.

Source: Poetry (October 2010).

The Snow Leopard by Jason Gray

The Snow Leopard

BY JASON GRAY

In the Metro Toronto Zoo

He pads on grassy banks behind a fence,

          with measured paces slow and tense.

          Beyond his cage his thoughts are sharp and white;

                  he lives a compelled anchorite.

                  A solid ghost gone blind with all the green,

                              he waits and waits to be unseen.

                                                         -For Paul Strong

The poem "The Snow Leopard" is written by Jason Gray and it is dedicated to a person called Paul Strong. The poem has three stanzas and each stanza has two verses, The title of the poem describes the opposite of the actual meaning and the appearance of the tiger. The tiger is described as a "compelled anchorite" which shows that  he doesn't like his environment and it wasn't his decission to live there. The word "compelled anchorite" (line 4) is also a methapor. The mood of the tone is very sad and depressing. This mood shows the sadness of the tiger. The tone of the poem is is very banal and monotonous. It says that the tiger lives in a zoo which explains why he is in a "cage" (line3). The monotonous environment is supported by the way how the tiger is described, "with measured paces slow and tens" (line 2), (gone blind whitch all the green). The last line shows how the tiger wishes to disappear and he is tired of  getting watched by the visitors of the zoo. In line five a metaphor describes a snow blindness  which is described with the color green.