The+Interlopers

The Interlopers  **﻿Short Stories - Literary Devices Title:** __The Interlopers__   **Point of View:** 3rd Person/Omniscient   **Protagonist:** Ulrich von Gradwitz/Georg Znaeym   **What type of character is the Protagonist?** Round and Dynamic. **Antagonist:** Georg, Ulrich, and the tree. ** Describe the setting. ** **Time:** Early 1900s   **Place:** A narrow strip of forest on the eastern spurs of Carpathians   **Mood:** Angry, Bloodthirsty, Tension, Forgiveness   **Type of Conflict:** Man vs. Man, Man vs. Environment  ** Describe the main conflict. ** The main conflict in this story is that there are two families, the Von Gradwitz family and the Znaeym family, and they are constantly fighthing over a strip of forest. The Von Gradwitz family legally owns it, but the Znaeym family illegally hunts and "interlopes" the strip of forest. The fight has been going on for three generations and so has the hatred of the opposing family. ** Describe the Climax of the story. ** The climax of the story is when Georg and Ulrich come face to face with each other and then the tree falls and pins both of them to the ground. The two talk badly of each other until Ulrich offers Georg some wine. Then, Ulrich talks about how useless the quarreling over the land is and askes if Georg wants to be friends and end the three generation long hatred of the two families. Georg agrees. Before they can tell anyone that they are  now friends wolves come and attack them both. The resolution of the fight will die with the friends. ** How does the Protangonist change over the course of the story? ** The Protangonist, Georg/Ulrich, realizes that the fighting between the two families over the strip of land is pretty much useless. The two of them become friends and resolve the problem. ** Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. ** The meaning of the title, //The Interlopers//, basically means the intruders. Both of the men see each other as the interloper and, therefore, want the worst possible thing to happen to the "intruder". ** How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? ** The main conflict helps to illustrate the theme because the theme is revenge. The two want revenge so badly that they were threatening each other while trapped under the fallen tree. This makes no sense because neither of them could actually do what they were talking about doing to each other. The main conflict, revenge, shows that revenge is bad, especially when you take it too far. ** How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? ** The climax of the story helps to illustrate the theme because when the two of them are trapped, they have to put their hatred and revenge aside and work together to save both of them. What this basically means is that they put their family hatred/revenge for each other behind them and started fresh. ** Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes): ** **Similie:** "We have quarrled like devils..." **Metaphor:** "Relief at being alive and exasperation at his captive plight brought a strange medley of pious thanks-offerings and sharp curswes to Ulrich's lips." ** Personification: ** "In the cold, gloomy forest, with the wind tearing in fitful gusts through the naked branches and whistling round the tree trunks, they lay and waited for the help that would now bring release and succor to both parties." ** Symbol: ** The flask of wine represents an offering of peace/friendship. **Foreshadowing (give both elements):** "As boys they had thirsted for one anothers blood, as men each prayed that misfortune might fall upon the other." " A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads, and ere they could leap aside a mass of falling beech tree had thundered down on them" Both Georg and Ulrich ﻿wanted the worst to happen to each other. In the end both of them got what they wanted; the worst to happen to the other person. ** Irony: ** What's ironic about this story is that you'd expect the people of one of the men to come and recuse the two friends and live happily ever after. That's not what happened though. What happened was that they ( Georg and Ulrich) yelled for help, only to attract wolves. In the end both of the end up getting attacked by wolves and no one finding out about their friendship. ** Imagery: ** "He strayed away by himself from the watchers whom he had placed in ambush on the crest of the hill, and wandered far down the steep slopes amid the wild tangle of undergrowth, peering through the tree-trunks and listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for sight or sound of the marauders." ** Describe the relationship between the story and the class theme. ** The relationship between the class theme of Choices and the story is that the two men made a choice to put their hatred and revenge for each other behind and become friends. Before that, they had chosen to hate each other because their grandfathers had done the same. By making a simple choice of becoming friends earlier, they could have avoided the misfortune of being attacked by wolves in the forest that they were finghting over. **﻿** **1. What is Ulrich hunting for?** Ulrich was hunting for Georg Znaeym and his men that were trespassing his land.

**2. How did Ulrich come to own the property in question?** He came to own the property when his grandfather filed a lawsuit against Georg's grandfather who illegally possesed the land.

**3. Why do Ulrich and Georg hate each other? How did it all start?** George and Ulrich hate each other because they were taught to hate the other family as young children. Their grandfathers originally hated each other because of the land that Ulrich's family currently posseses legally.

**4. Identify the foreshadowing in the second paragraph.** ﻿"As boys they had thirsted for one another's blood, as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other." This is foreshadowing because later on misfortune finds both of them as they are trapped under the tree together.

**5. Why did they not try to shoot each other the moment they saw each other?** They didn't try to shoot each other the moment they saw each other because they had been brought up under the code of a restraining civilization and it wasn't easy to shoot a neighbor in cold blood and without word spoken, except for an offence against his hearth and honour.

**6. What saves Ulrish's foot from being crushed?** Ulrich's heavy hunting boots saved his feet from being crushed.

**7. What lies do they tell each other after realizing after they are both trapped under the tree?** They tell each other that their men are coming to rescue them any minute and that they will kill the other person.

**8. Why does Ulrich change his mind about killing Georg?** Ulrich changes his mind anout killing Georg becuase he realizes that it is not worth fighting over the narrow strip of forest and hating each other forever.

**9. What significance is there in the title of the story? What are some possible meanings of the title?** The title of the story is significant because Georg and Ulrich think of each other as the interloper. Neither of them really own the land but think they do. The wolves could also be the interlopers.

**10. In the end of the story why do each of the men hope that their men will come first to rescue him?** In the end, both men want their men to come first because they want to be the one that rescues their friend as a gesture of friendship.

**11. Describe the irony in this story.** The ironic part of this story is the end. This is beacause the reader expects the men of either person to come and save the friends but instead they get attacked by wolves.

**12. What metaphor can you find in relation to the tree pinning down the two characters?** The tree pinning the two down was a physical metaphor. It, in a way, pushed them to see that their hatred was meaningless. There was no point in hating the other person beause they wouldn't get anything out of it.

**13. Is the ending of the story effective? Why or why not?** The end of the story wasn't very effective. Even though they resolved their issues that they had, no one would find out that the feud between the families was over. The two of them knew this, but the families had no way of knowing. If the wolves hadn't attacked them, they could have told the families that everything was going to be better and that they didn't hate each other any more. Then the ending would have then been effective. Completion 5/5 Effort 4/5 Content 4/5

total 13 /15

Questions Completion Mark 5/5

total 18/20