The Destructors

The protagonist of the story is Trevor. The protagonist is Trevor because Trevor was the central “good” character. He is higher class and the whole story was mostly based on class. He is well educated and gets into less trouble than the rest of the gang does. All of the crimes Trevor wanted to commit were just small, petty, harmless crimes. The antagonist in the story is Blackie because he is the source in the story that brings up problems with Trevor (protagonist). Since Blackie is lower class and the gang leader he is the destructive element in the story. The conflict between Blackie and Trevor is that Blackie wants to commit larger and more harmful crimes because since all of his loved things like his house was takes from him in World War 2 than he doesn’t see why anyone should have a better lifestyle than him. He doesn’t have a great education, which Trevor does, so when Trevor decided to stand in the house when they were tearing apart Old Misery’s home Blackie was upset and wondered why Trevor wasn’t helping out. Trevor is trying to do everything the “smarter way”, which makes Blackie upset since he doesn’t have the education and higher class that Trevor has.