The+Interlopers

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: The Interlopers Point of View: Third Person Omniscient Protagonist: Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym. What type of character is the Protagonist? Both are round and dynamic because the change from hating each other to becoming friends. Antagonist: Georg Znaeym and Ulrich von Gradwitz. Describe the setting. The setting is in a forest on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians in the early 1900s. The mood of the story is uneasy. Type of Conflict: Man vs. man because the two characters hate each other. Describe the main conflict: Th conflict is between Ulrich and Georg because of a family feud involving Georg hunting on Ulrich's land for it used to be his.

Describe the Climax of the Story: The climax is when they become friends and start yelling for help. How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? They end the feud and become friends. Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. Interlopers means trespassers and Georg was trespassing on Ulrich's land.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? I thought the theme was empathy. The conflict invovles the men not understanding each other's feelings.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? Empathy is what causes them to become friends because they are in the same situation. Both of them know that the other is feeling the same pain and wishing they had used their time to get to know each other rather than hating the other.

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes): Simile: "... a man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision, and later, his rifle."

Metaphor: "The roebuck, which usually kept in the sheltered hollows during a storm-wind, were running like driven things tonight,..."

Personification: "A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads,..."

Symbol: The tree represents the burden of the family fued being put upon these men's shoulders.

Foreshadowing (give both elements): "...and there was movement and unrest..." This foreshadows that something bad is about to happen.

Irony: The two men made up but they possibly end up dying so no one knows about their newly formed friendship.

Imagery: "The descending twigs had slashed the skin of his face, and he had to wink away some drops of blood from his eyelashes before he could take ina general view of the disaster.... All round them lay a thick-strewn wreckage of splintered branches and broken twigs."

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. There are many examples of power in this short story. Both families are trying to get power over this useless piece of land. They try to have power over each other in many ways. Without the lust for power, the would not go out to kill each. Georg and Ulrich try to have power over themselves when deciding whether or not to shoot at each other. Ulrich also trys to have power over himself when deciding if he should be friends with Georg or not. The tree eventually becomes the thing they are trying to have power over by trying to get out from under it. Power is a huge theme in the Interlopers.

1. What is Ulrich hunting for? He is hunting for his enemy, Georg Znaeym.

2. How did Ulrich come to own the property in question? He has inherited it from the previous generations who won it from a lawsuit.

3. Why do Ulrich and Georg hate each other? How did it all start? They hate each other because they both want this land which was originally a fight from three generations ago. Georg's family have been constantly poaching on it without permission. 4. Identify the foreshadowing in the second paragraph. Ulrich said there was a disturbance in the forest and that was foreshadowing that something would go wrong.

5. Why did they not try to shoot each other the moment they saw each other? They realized they were both human beings and the thought of killing another human suddenly hit them.

6. What saves Ulrich’s feet from being crushed? His heavy shooting boots.

7. What lies do they tell each other after realizing they are both trapped under the tree? They told each other that their men would be coming to find them soon.

8. Why does Ulrich change his mind about killing Georg? He realized that their quarrel was stupid and their was some many they could of done if they weren't hating each other. He also felt empathy towards Georg.

9. What significance is there in the title of this story? What are some possible meanings of the title? An interloper is a trespasser and part of the quarrel was about Gearg and his family intruding on Ulrich's property.

10. In the end of the story why do each of the men hope that their men will come first to rescue him? To show to them that are friends and would rather die than let the other die. 11. Describe the irony in this story. The irony is the fact that they finally ended the feud but there is no one to witness it and the story hints that they might die. 12. What metaphor can you find in relation to the tree pinning down the two characters? The tree is the burden of their feud. 13. Is the ending of this story effective? Why or why not? It is because it gets your brain moving about what might have happened next. Did they live? Did the wolves make dinner of them? Were they hallucinating? Did their man come just in time? Thoughts like that form in your head. Completion: 5/5 Effort: 4/5 Content: 4/5

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Questions Completion Mark 4/5

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