MS. POMEROY
"There would be headlines in the
papers. Even the grown-up gangs who
ran the betting at the all-in
wrestling and the barrow-boys would
hear with respect how Old Misery's
house had been destroyed. It was as
though this plan had been with him
all his life, pondered through the
seasons, now in his fifteenth year
crystallized with the pain of
puberty."
papers. Even the grown-up gangs who
ran the betting at the all-in
wrestling and the barrow-boys would
hear with respect how Old Misery's
house had been destroyed. It was as
though this plan had been with him
all his life, pondered through the
seasons, now in his fifteenth year
crystallized with the pain of
puberty."
I opened my eyes from a deep sleep on some noisy sounds .. it was my brother screaming some unnoticeable words .. bit by bit I began to gain my consciousness back .. I started to think clearer ... and to realize some words ..
Cairo .. Fire ..
I understood that there's something happening in Cairo .. first thought came into mind some terrorist work .. I toke my TV remote, started to dig the channels .. I stood there for a while calculating what is really happening :
The council was burning ... Firemen every where .. The situation was so chaotic
I got passed all the dramatic events and "feelings" - if u presume - and slowly started to realize something ...
while I was seeing the event on our local TV news ... I heard two ordinary people standing next to the cameraman .. some one calling his friend saying :
" hey .. let's go higher , we might see better from up there ! "
I sensed something strange in their voices .. and I sensed the very same thing when I was talking to my brother afterwards … It was Something beyond the shock of the event .. it was a bit like :
" Pure Joy "
It made me confused … where is the exciting thing in the middle of this ?!
Some picture came into my mind about a child reaches his " Pure Joy " by tearing a puppet apart or breaking some toy and smashing it into pieces …
I realized that we all live a – some how – dull life .. doing the same things day after day … facing the pressures rising up by the second …. containing all this water behind the dam … and when we see a tiny bit of a crack we pass all the catastrophic situation and reach some feeling beyond the usual senses of terror and grief …
beyond that .. in some point deep deep down ... we feel the sense of " Change " … that something just broke up … and something new happened made us stand outside our circle for a while ..
this is linked to be watching this happening away from us ... while we all still save and sound !
MS. POMEROY
What is Graham Greene trying to
communicate in this passage? Why do
the children break into Old Misery's
house?
DONNIE
Well... they say it right when they
are ripping the place to shreds.
When they flood the house. That
like... destruction is a form of
creation. So the fact that they burn
the money is... ironic. They just
want to see what happens when they
tear the world apart.
They want to change things.
