The+Interlopers

1. What is Ulrich hunting for? He was hunting for Georg because of a family feud about who owns this property that has lasted for over 3 generations.

2. How did Ulrich come to own the property in question? His grandfather took it from the illegal possession of the neighboring family of petty landowners.

3. Why do Ulrich and Georg hate each other? How did it all start? Ulrich and Georg hate each other because Ulrich became the sort of leader of his family and inherited the land that the Znaeym family claimed was theres.

4. Identify the foreshadowing in the second paragraph. The paragraph foreshadows that there should be some sort of fight in the story because of what the men want to do to each other.

5. Why did they not try to shoot each other the moment they saw each other? They did not shoot each other at first because it isn't a human instinct to kill.

6. What saves Ulrich’s feet from being crushed? He had steal toe hunting boots.

7. What lies do they tell each other after realizing they are both trapped under the tree? They tell each other they both have men coming to save them and that once their men get there they will kill the other person, depending on whos men get there first.

8. Why does Ulrich change his mind about killing Georg? Ulrich didn't kill him at first because it's not a human instinct to kill other humans, and at the end they resolve their problems and become friends so he has no reason to kill him.

9. What significance is there in the title of this story? What are some possible meanings of the title? They're enemies and they interlope with each other.

10. In the end of the story why do each of the men hope that their men will come first to rescue him? So that they can get out and make sure that their family knows about the resolution and that the family feud is gone, and that their okay.

11. Describe the irony in this story. That they both settled their differences and soon after are killed by wolfs, making it so that none of the families know about there friendship, which doesn't help resolve the feud at all.

12. What metaphor can you find in relation to the tree pinning down the two characters? "Like a magnent sticking a piece of paper to a fridge."

13. Is the ending of this story effective? Why or why not? The ending is not effective because they resolved that it wasn't a big deal about the land and ownership and then they just died leaving everything unresolved and unexplained to the families which will just leave the two families fighting.

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: The Interlopers

Point of View: Omniscient,Third Person

Protagonist: Georg Znaeym

What type of character is the Protagonist? Flat

Antagonist: Ulrich Gradwitz

Describe the setting Forest, October kind of weather.

Type of Conflict: Man vs Man

Describe the main conflict: Georg and Ulrich are a part of a family feud and so they are pretty much forced to hate each other. This feud between these two families has lasted for about 3 generations about who owns the land, which was started by their great, great, great grandfathers.

Describe the Climax of the Story: The climax occurs at the very end of the story, when the two men believe that they see their men coming to rescue them. There is a feeling of relief, that turns to fear and then absolute horror as they realize that the men they see are actually wolves.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? Urich von Gradwitz becomes less hateful and opens his heart to his neighbour, and becomes friends with the man he most hated. In doing this, he becomes a more forgiving person.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme: The title, "The Interlopers" can be interpreted as two things. One, it can mean to trespass onto land illegally, like what Georg is doing. The second means to be caught up in someone else's affairs, which Ulrich and Georg do when they are trapped under the tree. They also understand and show empathy, which I believe is the theme of this story.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? When the tree falls over, it traps the two of them underneath it, causing both of them pain, so you could say the tree was common ground for the empathy to follow, both of them feel the pain of the tree, so afterwards more and more simiarities between each other were discovered.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?

The climax helped to illustrate the theme because at that point they stopped fighting and became friends which is why they agreed to shout for help together.

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

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

Metaphor: "...nothing but the pestilential wind" compares the wind to a pest.

Personification: "...the weary screeching of the wind."

Symbol: The wolves coming to them symbolized death.

Foreshadowing (give both elements): "...as tough he waited for some beast if the woods..." foreshadows the wolves coming after him.

Irony: The irony comes in at the end of the story. There has been a feud between the Znaeym and the Gradwitz family for over 3 generations and finally it was solved. Ulrich and Georg were forced to be together when the tree fell down on them so they talked and eventually realized there is no good reason for their families to keep fighting. They solved their problems and became friends. The ironic part is that as soon as they looked past their differences and became friends, it was too late so they would never get the chance to tell their families that they have to fight no longer. Because they couldn't tell anyone, their families would probably assume that the feud was still going on and they would never resolve their problems.

Imagery:

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.

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Questions Completion Mark 4/5

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