The+Interlopers

Short Stories - Literary Devises

**Title: -**The Interlopers.


 * Point of View: - **Third Person / narrative.

**Protagonist**: -Ulrich von Gradwitz & Georg Znaeym.


 * What type of character is the Protagonist? - **They are both round and dynamic.


 * Antagonist ****:** -Ulrich von Gradwitz & Georg Znaeym, again.


 * Describe the setting - **In the forest on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians, on a cold winter night. The mood of the story I would say is a little tense, as well as suspenseful. It has a mysterious vibe to it.


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


 * Describe the main conflict: - **The main conflict is caused when Georg begins to poach on Ulrich's land, and Ulrich then retaliates back against Georg for doing this.

**Describe the Climax of the Story**: - The climax of the story is when both Georg and Ulrich are stuck under the tree, and they think they hear their men are coming to save them, but instead really it’s just a pack of wolves approaching. They realize they are in real danger.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? - **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ulrich and Georg start the story strongly disliking each other for no good reason, but by the end they befriend each other and act with kindness. Proven through the story, this was because they both understood how one another were feeling in that moment and it forced them to realize they are both just people and there is no real real reason to hate one another.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. - **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The title of this story initially has to do with the fact that Georg was poaching on the forest boundary of Ulrich’s land. Interloper means trespassing, which Georg was doing on Ulrich’s land. As you continue to read into the story, you discover that the title has a deeper meaning. That is, when you hate someone from afar, once you are forced to 'interlope' with them and you discover who they really are as a person, which therefore causes you to learn that you have no real reason to hate them.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? - **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The main conflict, Ulrich vs. Georg, represents the theme because Ulrich is out ‘’hunting’’ for Georg on his land.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? - **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They start the story ready to kill each other if given the opportunity, then they both get stuck under a tree, therefore bond and become friends. They end up dying together, after the wolves had gotten to them before they could even escape.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simile: - **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The roebucks, were running like driven things.”


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphor: - **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Hate in his heart”


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personification: - **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches.”


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol: - **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When the tree fell on the two men, this represented the element of the unknown within the story. Would they live or die? Would their conflict become resolved or become even worse?


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- “The two enemies stood glaring at one another for a long silent moment. Each had a rifle in his hand, each had hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind. The chance had come to give full play to that passions of a lifetime. But a man who has been brought up under the code of restraining civilization cannot easily word spoken, except for an offence again his hearth and honor.” This passage from the story foreshadows to the reader that the two of them will not end up killing each other. It makes you believe that something even deeper will occur between the two.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: - **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The irony in this story is mostly the fact that when they become friends as they are stuck beneath that tree, they say all sorts of things like how they’ll ride into town together, go hunting together, and even have dinner. It had taken them both that long to establish a good relationship with each other, and they were possibly minutes away from their death, without even fully realizing the fact. They said; “Neighbour, if you will help me to bury this quarral I --- I will ask you to be my friend." & "How the whole region would stare and gabble if we rode into the square-market together. No one living can remember when a Znaeym and Von Gradwitz talking to one another in friendship."


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery: -" **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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 the undergrowth, peering through the tree-trucks and listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for the sight or sound of the marauders."

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story**. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Humanity has it’s likes and dislikes, positives and negatives, but in the end what really matters is the positive things and feelings. The class theme is that Ulrich and Georg dislike each other but for no logical reason - only because they were raised to believe they should. Then, they cross paths and discover who each other really is as a person, therefore they have no real reason for hate.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Completion 5/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Effort 5/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Content 5/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Total 15/15