In his famous short story, Graham Greene argues that it is human nature to want to destroy things, and that “[d]estruction, after all, is a form of creation.” What does he mean by this? Is he right? Is tearing something down a way to make something new?
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Sophia
9/11/2023 04:24:08 pm
He means it's a way of tearing down something old and crating something new. He is right. It is a way of making something new because it's creating a new opportunity for something new.
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Brian
9/17/2023 01:17:35 pm
He means that by tearing something down, we make room for new creations. I think he is right, because if we don’t get rid of anything, eventually, we won’t have any room left to build new things.
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Olivia
9/17/2023 03:09:20 pm
I think he is right, he means that when you get rid of something you present an opportunity for something new to take it's place. If we never got rid of anything we would never be able to make anything new and would run out of space.
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Elise
9/17/2023 07:41:57 pm
I believe he could either mean this literally, like for example you would need to tear down an old abandoned factory to make room for more apartments, or in a more cultural/political way, like you need to tear down an old political system or religious system to make room for a different one.
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Liyah
9/19/2023 06:39:40 am
Tearing something down is a opportunity to make something new. if you were not to tear it down, sit there forever and you will never be able to make it better. If everything were to stay the same forever we would not have room for new, nice things.
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Elliott Herr
9/21/2023 07:14:14 am
it depends, i think if someone destroyed just to destroy, it would be wrong. But, if you destroying an unused or unhelpful thing that is taking up room it would be okay to take it out to make room.
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