The+Interlopers


 * __ Short Stories- ____ Literary Devises __**
 * __ Title: ____ The Interlopers __**
 * __ Jason Poon __**

Third Person, Limited Omniscient Narrator
 * __ Point of View: __**

Ulrich von Gradwitz
 * __ Protagonist: __**

Round and Dynamic
 * __ What type of character is the Protagonist? __**

Georg Znaeym
 * __ Antagonist: __**

Place- Carpathian Mountains, Central Europe Time Period- One winter night, early 1800's Mood- Contempt and tense
 * __ Describe the setting: __**

The setting is in Central Europe because at the beginning, they summarize that Ulrich is in the Carpathian Mountains. It is on one winter night and around the early 1800's as that was when the first rifles were invented. The mood is very tense and some contempt as they both want to kill each other and wish ill to each of them.

Man vs. Man
 * __ Type of Conflict: __**

The main conflict is that Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym detest each other as it was a family feud between them as they both became head of their families. They are fighting over this strip of forest that Georg wants to take away from Ulrich.
 * __ Describe the main conflict: __**

The climax of the story is when Ulrich von Gradwitz asks Georg Znaeym to be his friend, which Georg then accepts. They thought that this would then bring peace to the region and that they would visit each other to have dinner together. After they befriend each other, no further information was introduced and there was nothing new.
 * __ Describe the Climax of the Story: __**

Ulrich von Gradwitz changed quite a bit over the course of the story. At the beginning, he was cold-hearted and stubborn. Near the end, once he asked Geog to be his friend, he was kind and listened to others.
 * __ How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? __**

Title- The Interlopers Theme-Contempt may lead to friendship.
 * __ Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. __**

The relationship between the title and the theme is quite odd, at the beginning of the story, Georg intrudes the forest area belonging to Ulrich. They then met with each other and were ready to shoot each other at any time. But moments later a beech tree had fallen on both of them which meant they were trapped. After a while Ulrich decides to ask Georg to be his friend. Georg excepts but they were still waiting for help. The relationship between the title and the theme is quite different from others. Someone who is an interloper then befriends the character who was trying to hunt him down and kill him.

Main Conflict- Ulrich and Georg despise each other and fight for the strip of the forest. Theme- Contempt may lead to friendship.
 * __ How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? __**

The main conflict help to illustrate the theme as they start off despising each other which later leads to a new friendship that would bring peace to the region. Since the story starts off with them despising each other, it makes the story more interesting and with a different rising action and climax.

The climax helps to illustrate the theme as I think that the theme is that contempt may lead to friendship in certain circumstances. Since the climax is when they befriend each other, it helps to illustrate the theme because they started off wanting to kill each other, but in the end they died together as friends, which is basically the main theme of the short story.
 * __ How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? __**


 * __ Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes): __**

"The roebuck, which usually kept i the sheltered hollows during a storm-wind, were running like driven things tonight..."
 * __ Simile: __**

“... the idiotic chattering laugh of a man unstrung with hideous fear.”
 * __ Metaphor: __**

__** Personification: **__ “A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads...”

"Who are they?" asked Georg quickly, straining his eyes to see what the other would gladly not have seen." "Wolves"
 * __ Symbol: __**

In this part, I would think that the wolves symbolize death, because "Wolves" was the last word in the story, so everyone would assume that the wolves would kill them, which means that they symbolize death.

__** Foreshadowing (give both elements): **__ “I heard something that time, I think.”

This is an example of foreshadowing because it shows that something will probably come their way, but it was not exactly a human that came to them. It hinted that they would be in for trouble once they saw nine or ten figures coming their way, and that they were coming at too fast a pace for humans.

Situational Irony- There was situational irony as soon after they became friends, they called for help and wolves came. It is ironic as after three generations, they finally came to an agreement and their lives were ending soon after a new friendship and peace to the region.
 * __ Irony: __**

“...the wine was warming and reviving...”
 * __ Imagery: __**

__** Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. **__ Class Theme- Choices

There is quite a close relationship with the class theme and the story. Ulrich had to make many choices in the story. He had to choose whether to stay with the group, or to search for Georg by himself. He also had to choose whether to continue the family feud with Georg, or to befriend him and bring peace to the region. In the end, I think he made decent choices and if I was in his position, I think he has made better decision than I would have made, because he had to think about all of this at a tragic moment where most people would not even make the right choices and decisions.


 * __ ﻿﻿The Interlopers __**
 * __ Question 1-13 __**
 * __ Jason Poon __**

Ulrich von Gradwitz is hunting for the interloper Georg Znaeym because Georg wants to take the part of the forest away from Ulrich.
 * __ 1. What is Ulrich hunting for? __**


 * __ 2. How did Ulrich come to own the property in question? __**

__** 3. Why do Ulrich and Georg hate each other? How did it all start? **__ It all started three generations ago when their families had similar problems and the two families relationships had carried on to their time, but it had stopped as they befriended each other. Although they died together in the very end.

"The neighbor feud had grown into a personal one since Ulrich had come to be head of his family; if there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym.
 * __ 4. Identify the foreshadowing in the second paragraph. __**

They did not shoot each other because they were raised under a code of restraining civilization which meant that they could not shoot each other down without a word to be spoken.
 * __ 5. Why did they not try to shoot each other the moment they saw each other? __**

Ulrich's feet were saved from being crushed by his heavy shooting-boots. They both lie that once their team finds them that they will kill the other and tell their families of their death.
 * __ 6. What saves Ulrich’s feet from being crushed? __**
 * __ 7. What lies do they tell each other after realizing they are both trapped under the tree? __**

Ulrich changes his mind as he finds it meaningless that they are fighting over something as stupid as an old forest while it was not originally their fight but their great-grandfather's.
 * __ 8. Why does Ulrich change his mind about killing Georg? __**

The title is quite significant to the story because one of the co-protagonist's is an interloper as he is trying to take his intrude his enemy's land. A possible meaning of the title is that one may start off as an "Interloper", but it may lead to friendship in the bitter end.
 * __ 9. What significance is there in the title of this story? What are some possible meanings of the title? __**

They are both hoping that their men will come first as they want to make a good first impression on the other.
 * __ 10. In the end of the story why do each of the men hope that their men will come first to rescue him? __**

__** 11. Describe the irony in this story. **__ In the story, there is quite some situational irony. Just when they become friends to bring peace to the region, they start to call for help and are killed by a pack of wolves. The irony in this is that the feud will continue even though these two made an agreement to bring peace to the region.

The metaphor of the part where the tree pins the two characters down is that the tree is trying to make a strong bond between the two and they must make up their differences by forcing them to come together, which is why an inanimate object tried to force a bond between the two.
 * __ 12. What metaphor can you find in relation to the tree pinning down the two characters? __**

I think that the ending of the story is quite effective because the majority of readers would think that they would be saved and there would be a joyous ending, but the author made a twist at the very end to make the story more interesting, which I think is more effective.
 * __ 13. Is the ending of this story effective? Why or why not? __**

Completion 5/5 Effort 5/5 Content 5/5

total 15/15

Questions Completion Mark 5 /5

total 20/20

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