Interlopers

 Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:__ Point of View:

Third Person and limited omniscient.

Protagonist:

Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg are both protagonists

What type of character is the Protagonist?

Dynamic because they decides to become friends with his enemy.

Round because quite a bit of information is given. Example we find out that they have been fighting for three generations.

 Antagonist:  Georg Znaeym and Ulrich are both antagonist.

Describe the setting: Time : Winter 1800s

Place: Eastern forests of Carpathians

The mood: Tense because the two characters want to kill each other. Seems to contain action with the storm trapping the two characters.

Type of Conflict:

Man vs Man

 Describe the main conflict: The main conflict is Ulrich arguing for a piece of land against Georg. They both claim it and their families have been fighting over it for three generations. This time they are both hunting each other instead of wild game. They are prepared to fight to death so that who ever wins will claim the land; however a storm makes the trees around them to fall on top of them preventing them to get up. Basically which person’s men comes first will win.

 Describe the Climax of the Story:  The climax is when Ulrich and and Georg decides to put their quarrel aside and become friends. This is when the action starts to drop and no new information is given. By becoming friends it has changed the whole story because they were going to kill each other before and now they are friends. They decide to get out of there alive together and to stop fighting for a stupid piece of land.

 How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?  He changes by deciding to become friends with his enemy. He decides to befriends him instead of fighting over a piece of land that can’t even stand upright in a breath of wind. By deciding to become friends, he has changed from wanting his neighbour dead.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The title is related to the theme because the title is a metaphor for the theme. The theme is that if they laid down their differences earlier they would not be fighting each other and that they would not have their downfalls. If they did not have a feud against each other, then they would have not been there and would not have died. The title is interlopers and in the end, the real interloper is nature because the characters could not solve their their problem before it was too late.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The main conflict helped to illustrate the theme because the characters were fighting each other for the land and in the end they did lay down their differences, but it was too late to save them. If they did not quarrel over the land in the first place then they wouldn't have died and the theme of letting down your differences or they will lead to oyur downfall would not exist. The main conflict revolves around the theme because the conflict is the two of them fighting each other over the forest and the the theme is letting that go.

 How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?  The climax illustrated the theme because the theme of letting down your differences and forget about feuds happened during the climax. During the climax, the two characters became friends and because of it, the feud is over.

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes): Simile: "The roebuck, which usually kept in the shelterede hollows during a storm-wind, were running like driven things tonight..."

Metaphor: "And before the moment of hesitation had given way to action a deed of Nature's own violence overwhelmed them both..."

Personification: "... Can't even stand upright is a breath of a wind."

Symbol: Wolves represent doom because the two of them could do nothing to stop it and because they made the mistake of being loud so that other people can hear them. Instead of other people hearing him, wolves heard him.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> Foreshadowing (give both elements): <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> <span style="color: #00ff00; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The forshadowing is "The feud might, perhaps, have died down or been comprimised if the personal ill will of the two men had not stood in the way." Basically, if they both let down the argument of wh owns the land, then the feud would end. Later, we do find out that they decide to not let the ownership of the land get in the way and they become friend because of it.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> Irony: <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #00ff00; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Situational irony. What is ironic is when Ulrich becomes Georg's friend when he was the reason why Ulrich is stuck here. Their families have been fighting for generations and so have them, but he decides to befriend him. That is ironic. Imagery: But what a heaven-sent draught it seemed! It was an open winter, and little snow had fallen as yet, hence the captives sufferede less from the cold than might have been the case at that season of the year; nevertheless, the wine was warming and reviving to the wounded man.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> The relationship between the class theme and the story is that the class theme of choices and the story's of letting down differences and very closely related. Choices decide wether or not someone lets down their differences and become friends with a foe. At the start of this story, Ulrich's choices was to keep up the feud and to keep fighting Georg, but at the end he makes the choice of letting that go and end the feud. If Ulrich did not change his choice, then they still would have kept fighting each other; however, because of his choice, the decide to start again and to become great friends. This happens a lot in real life, for example, I did not know my cousin well when I first met him, so we fought a lot, but we chose to let our differences down and we became good cousins.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> 1. What is Ulrich hunting for? <span style="color: #00ff00; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ulrich is hunting for Georg Znaeym. <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">2. How did Ulrich come to own the property in question? It did because his grandfather wrested it from illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners.

3. Why do Ulrich and Georg hate each other? How did it all start? They hate each other because their families have been fighting for generations and they were brought up wanting the other dead. This all started from Ulrich's grandfather who won the land from Georg's family.

4. Identify the foreshadowing in the second paragraph. The forshadowing is "The feud might, perhaps, have died down or been comprimised if the personal ill will of the two men had not stood in the way." Basically if they both let down the argument of wh owns the land, then the feud would end. Later, we do find out that they decide to not let the ownership of the land get in the way and they become friend because of it.

5. Why did they not try to shoot each other the moment they saw each other? They did not shoot each other because they were brought up with the code that they cannot shoot down his neighbour in cold blood and without word spoken, except for an offence against his hearth and honor.

6. What saves Ulrich’s feet from being crushed? Ulrich's heavy shooting-boots had saved his feet from being crushed.

7. What lies do they tell each other after realizing they are both trapped under the tree? The lies they tell each other is that they both have men behind them and that they will come and rescue them. Once their men had found the, they will kill the other guy.

8. Why does Ulrich change his mind about killing Georg? He changed his mind because he had some wine and he started to calm down. While that was happening, Georg was fighting pain and exhaustion which caused Ulrich's hatred to die down.

9. What significance is there in the title of this story? What are some possible meanings of the title? The title is Interlopers, but both of them are considered interlopers. We do know which is the actual interloper and therfore the title can be a way to describe what the two main characters are.

10. In the end of the story why do each of the men hope that their men will come first to rescue him? They want to have them rescue them first because it is a way to show friendship. By helping your friend when he is in need is a way of showing friendship.

11. Describe the irony in this story. The irony is that even though they became friends and decided to not kill each other. They still died. That is ironic because through out the start, one person is going to die, but in the end they become friends so that they don't die and they still died. Also the because they died, their families' feud will continue because no one knows that they became friends.

12. What metaphor can you find in relation to the tree pinning down the two characters? The metaphor is, "And before the moment of hesitation had given way to action a deed of Nature's own violence overwhelmed them both..." The tree pins them down and because of it, they are forced to talk. The tree is almost like a phycologist because it makes talk everything out.

13. Is the ending of this story effective? Why or why not?=== It is effective because it ends with death. After death, there is nothing left to talk about and therfore the story has no need to continue. With the death of the two characters, it summarizes the story and everythings that need to be told has been told. Completion /55 Effort 4/5 Content 4/5

total 13/15

Questions Completion Mark 4/5

total 17/20

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