The+Interlopers

﻿ Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: The Interlopers

Point of View: Limited Omniscient

Protagonist: Ulrich von Gradwitz mainly, but also Georg Znaeym. What type of character is the Protagonist? Dynamic

Antagonist: Georg Znaeym and Ulrich Gradwitz.

Describe the setting: In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathian Mountains, Romania. It is on a winter night, during the late 1800s. There seems to be tension in the air because of the feud between the two men.

Type of Conflict: Man vs. Man and a little bit of Man vs. Environment

Describe the main conflict: Ulrich von Gradwitz is on a quest in the night for a human enemy. The two men became enemies because of each of their grandfathers dispute over illegal possesion, a long series of poaching affrays, and similar scandals. <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Describe the Climax of the Story: <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The first thing that leads to the climax is when they meet each other face-to-face. We then think that the climax is when they disscused their issues and wanted to become friends.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">At the beginning he feels angry and revengeful, but after talking with his enemy, he felt as if the old fierce hatred had died down and they became at peace with each other.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Describe the relationship between the title and the theme: <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">We think the theme of the story is: Hate and you will be hated, forgive and you will be forgiven. The title “The Interlopers” means a person who becomes involved in a place or situation they do not want to be in or to intrude some region without proper lisence. They were interlopers who hated each other because they were blinded by the mistakes that their grandfathers made.When they came face-to-face, they realized that they had no reason to hate one another and decided that forgiveness was the best way to solve their feud.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Man vs. Man helps illustrate the theme because it takes two humans to create forgiveness.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The theme is forgiveness and the climax is illustrates this when they realized that,“...there are better things in life than getting the better of a boundary dispute”

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Simile: “ A man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come...”

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Metaphor: "...a mass of falling beech tree thundered down on them."

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Personification: “Ulrich was silent for a few minutes, and lay listening to the weary screeching of the wind”

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Symbol: The rifle that Ulrich held, symbolized death for his enemy.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">“ The feud might, perhaps, have died down or been compromised if the personal ill will of the two men had not stood in the way” This foreshadows that the men might forgive each other after they come face-to face, “If you help me to bury the old quarrel I will ask you to be my friend”

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Irony: “Ho, what a jest, Ulrich von Gradwitz snared in his stolen forest. There’s real justice for you!” <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">At the end when the wolves come and we assume that they have been killed, no one will know that thy ended ended the feud because they are dead.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Imagery: All around them lay a thick-strewn wreckage of splintered branches and broken twigs.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. The relationship between the class theme and the story's is about how much power forgiveness can have in life. In this case, it had the power to free two men of their ill will against one another. “How the whole region would stare and gabble if we rode into the market-square together. No one living can remember seeing a Znaeym and a Von Gradwitz talking to one another in friendship” This would be a powerful example for all the people of the region to see that even the biggest feud could be resolved.

__The Interlopers__ 1.) What was Ulrich looking for? Ulrich was look for Georg Znaeym who he has been in a long-standing feud with. 2.)How did Ulrich come to own the property in qustion? Ulrich inherited this land from his grandfather when he became the head of the family. His grandfather "wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighboring family of petty landowners.." The other family didn't agree with this. 3.) Why do Ulrich and Georg hate each other? When did this all start? They hated each other because of their ancester's disputes and revengful deeds. When Ulrich's grandfather gained possession of the land that was once owned by the Znaeym's, the neighbors reacted by fighting and arguing about poaching on the land and other scandals. This just made the realtionship of the neighboring families turn to hatred. 4.) Identify the forshawdowing in the second paragraph. "...if there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym..." This hinted the reader that Ulrich was out to get Georg and that they may come into contact with one another. 5.) Why did they not try to shoot each other the moment they saw one another? Ulrich didn't want to shoot because "...a man who has been brought up under the code of a restraining civilization cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighbor in cold blood and without a word spoken, except for an offence against his hearth and honor." In other words, he hesitated because he needed to decide wheather he wanted to kill the man he loathed but never actually knew 6.) What saves Ulrich's feet from being crushed? His heavy shooting-boots that he wore. 7.) What lies do they tell each other after realizing that they are both trapped under the tree? Both men began to argue about whose men will arrive first so they can be rescued and finished what they came to do which was to kill one another. Ulrich's men weren't actually coming because he walked off to be alone, and I suppose Georg did the same. 8.) Why does Ulrich change his mind about killing Georg? His heart began to soften when he laid next to his enemy who was just keeping the groans of pain and weariness from causing his lips. He then realized that they had been rather fools of fighting over a boundary dispute. He wanted to become friends. 9.)What significance is there in the title of this story? What are some possible meanings of the title? When I first read the titile, I had no idea what it meant, but after taking a guess I thought the story would be about two people in some sort of situation. That was really what the story was about, two people in a complicated situation.One definition of interlopers is; a person who is in a place or situation that they do not want to be in. Another is; an intrusion into some region without proper lisence. 10.) In the end of the story why do each of the men hope that their men will come first to rescue him first? The party that gets there will enable one man to show honorable attention to the enemy, and become a friend first. 11.) Describe the irony in this story. The irony in this story is that even though the two men ended the feud between themsleves, no will no because we assume that they are both killed by the wolves. This means that the hate between the two families will most likely go on. 12.)What metaphor can you find in relation to the tree pinning down the two characters? A metaphor is a comparison between two unalike things without using like or as. The comparison is between a tree and a pin but there is no sentence in the story that compares a tree pinning down two people. The analogie of this metaphor is that the tree is a trap that forces the men to talk about their issues so they will realize how similar their situations really are. 13. )Is the ending of this story effective? Why or why not? I do think that the ending is effective because it is a cliff hanger. We assume that because the wolves came they died, but there still is a chance that they survived. Since this ending leaves me wanting to read more I do think that it is an effective ending.  Completion 5/5    Effort 4/5    Content 4/5

total 13/15

Questions Completion Mark 5/5

total 18/20