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The Destructors and The Lumber Room Both short stories, "The Destructors", by Graham Greene, and "The Lumber Room", by Saki, deals with children and how they live their lives. The two stories deals with completely different group of kids. Graham Greene, in his story, narrates the days of a rebellious boys gang and discusses topics such as leadership, whilst Saki tells the story of a very intelligent little boy, which gets punished and makes use of this situation in his advantage by a very intelligent way. In his short story, Saki tries to portray the relationship between adults and children and show how sometimes adults can act so incorrectly before children. Graham Green's short story is set on post-war London and talks about several different themes including leadership, in my opinion, the most important and relevant one. When the leader boy, Trevor, enters the gang, he leads the gang to perform a...

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