The+Interlopers

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: __The Interlopers__

Point of View: 3rd Person, Omniscient

Protagonist:

Ulrich von Gradwitz

What type of character is the Protagonist? Round and Dynamic. -6

Antagonist: Georg Znaeymn.54

Describe the setting: '//In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians//....'. During the 1800's-1900's, Winter. In the beginning the mood is murderous and towards the end the feel is horrified.

Type of Conflict: Man vs. Man to start and then turn into Man vs Environment

Describe the main conflict: Justin thinks the main conflict is Man vs. Environment, because the ending of the story um the two enemies have to work toghether to try and survive the attack of the wolves, and after the tree fell on them that is when they really had to start working toghether.

Describe the Climax of the Story: The climax of the story is when Ulrich says "//Wolves//". That heightens the need for survival and the need to work together.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? Ulrich starts off as hate-filled neighbour, and he really wants to kill his neighbour George on that winter night, in the forest. But, Ulrich couldn't kill George in cold blood and after the tree fell on the two enemies, Ulrich decided that he had to get over his hate for George and work with him, in order to survive. When the wolves came to kill them, that increased his need to work with his previous enemy.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The relationship the title and the theme is that the word interloper means that you get yourself in a situation that you didn't mean to get into in the first place. This is reflected in the theme by having Ulrich and George get attacked by wolves when originally they wanted to kill each other.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The main conflict helps illustrate the theme by forcing two enemies to work together for one cause that would benefit the both of them.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The climax helps illustrate the theme by having Ulrich and Georg work together in order for their mutual survival.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 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; padding: 0px;">Simile: "The roebuck which usually kept in the sheltered hollows during a storm-wind, were running like driven things tonight."

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Metaphor: "

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Personification: " A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads...."

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Symbol: <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A symbol in the Interlopers is the story its self. The story symbolizes that people can look past their hate and find a new <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">medium on which two or more people can work together for a cause that benifits all of them and mybe become friends <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">when there was hatered and bitterness before. <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A posible foreshadowing in The Interlopers is in the third line of the first paragraph when the narrataor states "//... as though he waited// <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//for some beast of the woods to come//". This is a posible foreshadowing of the last three lines of the story " //"Who are they?" asked Georg// <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//quickly, straining his eyes to see what the other would gladly not have seen. "Wolves."// " <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Irony: <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A piece of irony in the story is that though both Georg and Ulrich were hunting they where evidently hunted by a pack of wolves. So instead <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">of being the hunters they became the hunted.Another piece of irony is that the narrarator states or indicates that Ulrich would kill Greorg <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">and vice versa at the first chance that they got. But instead they didn't even though there was all this suposed hate in ther hearts for each <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">other because they felt that they couldn'tkill one another in cold blood. <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Imagery: A good piece of imagery is in the first line of the story when the narrarator says //" In a forest of mixed growth...a man stood one// //winter night... "// with those few words I am able to acually see the forest and and feel what the man would feel on that night. I can feel the brisk but, light chill that pierces his clothes and I I can see the moon light lighting the forest floor with its light. I can see the light brown and dark brown leaves with thier light sprinkalling of snow laying on the forest floor and can feel and hear the crunching that the leaves are making as the man passes. I can also sence the ere silance that seems to be pressing down down on the man in all directions making him feel like he is alone in the world. This silance makes his nerves go to a even higher level or awareness than usual. But the silance is also strangly confronting because it reminds the man of his perpose that night and allows for self reflection.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The relationship between the class theme and this story is that this story shows us how we as people don't have the popwer to change they way <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">they look at enemies and get over there hate. This story also shows that people can over come what they where taught when we were little and <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">that those teaaching are not perminate as this story shows us. <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Questions <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 1. What is Ulrich hunting for? <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Ulrich is hunting for another human being named Greorg. <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">

2. How did Ulrich come to own the property in question?Ulrich came to own the property in in question by inheritance. His family got the land three generations ago by a court order. 3. Why do Ulrich and Georg hate each other? How did it all start?Ulrich and Georg hate each other because they where taught as little kids to hate each other and because Georg thinks that he is intittled toUlrich's land even though U;rich owns it legaly. Their families hatered for each other started three generations back when Ulrich's family won the court dispute over the land. 4. Identify the foreshadowing in the second paragraph.The foreshadowing in the second paragraph is " //The roebuck, which usually kept in the shelterd hallows durning a storm-wind, were running like// //driven things tonight, and there was movement and unrest among the creature thst wont sleep through the dark hours."// this quote is a foreshadowing of the coming of the wolves because the forest creatures sensed there pressance. 5. Why did they not try to shoot each other the moment they saw each other? Ulrich and Georg did not try and shoot each other the moment they saw each other because they felt that they couldn't kill each other in coldblood without provokion. 6. What saves Ulrich’s feet from being crushed?Ulrich's heavy shooting boots kept his feet from bing crushed. 7. What lies do they tell each other after realizing they are both trapped under the tree?Well I think that they didn't tell each other any lies after realizing that both are trapped underneath the tree because at the time it was true to them-sleves and it is only after U;rich discided to share his wine that they could be friends. Also a lie is only a lie when the person who is telling the supposed lie doesn't trully believe in what they are saying. But if the supposed lie teller does trully believe in what he is saying it is only the resieveror the reader in this case thinks or believes that what they are hearing is a lie. So basiclly lies are only lies if the speaker of the supposed lie believes if it is a truth or lie. 8. Why does Ulrich change his mind about killing Georg?Ulrich changes his mind about killing Georg because Ulrich realizes though his time trapped under the tree that the whole disspute was as trival as a triva game and that it ws acually really stupid. 9. What significance is there in the title of this story? What are some possible meanings of the title?Some significance of the tittle of the story is that the whole disspute between the families is a situation that could be labled as a interloper.Another possible meaning is that the tittle is a symbol of how the wolves were an unwanted interloper. 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 their men to come and save them because they want to get out from underneath the tree so that they can run away from the wolves. 11. Describe the irony in this story.The irony in this story is that there are two people who hate each other so much that they would kill each other but wont because their inner-viocesays that it would be wrong. 12. What metaphor can you find in relation to the tree pinning down the two characters????? please explain. 13. Is the ending of this story effective? Why or why not?Yes, because they ending leaves you wanting more to see what really happens. But the cliff hanger ending also allows you imagine what will hapen yourself and have the ending that you want. <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Completion 3/5 Effort3 /5 Content 3/5

total 9 /15

Questions Completion Mark 4/5

total 13/20