Rocking Horse & Destructors

Isolation and destruction within the environment cause dysfunctional emotions in the children in each of these stories, in other words emotion is a direct aspect of environment in children to both Greene and Lawrence.

Destroyed and war-torn environment/Social disparity

Destructive impulses and dysfunctional emotions in children

Loveless and non-nurturing environment/low self-esteem

Destruction of childhood emotions from abusive environment

Isolation and Destruction Through Environment

In Greene’s The Destructors and Lawrence’s The Rocking Horse Winner we have a similar theme running throughout each. In The Destructors we see young children who destroy because of the isolation and destruction they have witnessed in their war-torn environment, one that has filled them with similar emotions. In The Rocking Horse Winner we see a young child who is destroyed because the lack of real love and nurturing in his environment have spent him emotionally in an effort to help his mother be “lucky”. In other words, isolation and destruction within the environment cause dysfunctional emotions in the children in each of these stories, in other words emotion is a direct aspect of environment in children to both Greene and Lawrence.

In The Destructors we see that the boys come to destroy Mr. Thomas’ hou

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