The+Interlopers

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:__The Interlopers

Point of View:3rd person Protagonist: Ulrich von Gragwitz What type of character is the Protagonist? Round, dynamic Antagonist: George Znaeym /nature Describe the setting. In the eastern spurs of the Carpathians on a cold winter night in the mid 1900's. The mood is hateful and spiteful in the first half and in the second half the mood changes and becomes respectful and forgiving.

Type of Conflict: family vs. family Describe the main conflict: the main conflict is man vs. man because even though it has been the two families fighting over this land Ulrich and Georg are the head of their families and are also the only characters in this story.

Describe the Climax of the Story: The climax of the story is when Georg realises what is coming down the hillside.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? At the beggin g of the story Ulrich von Gragwitz is an extremely hateful and spiteful man towards Georg Znaeym. In part because he was raised that way but as he is confronted with death he decides to make a deal. In this deal he and Georg shall treat each other as human beings instead of trying to murder each other in cold blood.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The theme of this story is to keep your nose out of other people's business. This relates to the title because both Ulrich and georg's families at one point have interloped in the other family's business. Ulrich's family did this through the law suite three generations ago and Georg's family by poaching on their land ever since.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The main conflict helps to illistrats the theme because all they've done is interlope in each other's affaires for three generations and then nature sends the tree to interlope in their affaires and to end this feud.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The climax helps to illustrate the theme because even after they have finished interloping in each other's affaires nature interlopes in theirs.

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

Simile: "We have quarrelled like devils all our lives..."

Metaphor: "The two raised their voices in a prolonged hunting call."

Personification: "A fierce shriek of the storm..."

Symbol: The wolves symbolize Ulrich and Georg's hunting parties coming to kill them.

Foreshadowing (give both elements):" "No," said Ulrich with a laugh, the idiotic chattering laugh of a man un strung with a hideous fear." Here the author foreshadows ( even if it's only for three lines) what is coming down that hillside we know that it's neither party and that it strung Ulrich with a hideous fear but we still don't know what it is.

Irony: After three generations of fighting over this land Ulrich and Georg become friends and end the disagreement. This is ironic because no one will ever know and the disagreement will continue even after their deaths.

Imagery: "Listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of branches." 

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. The relation between our class theme Power and the theme of this story is that we all have the power to interlope in other people's affaires but that doesn't mean we should. This then relates to everyday life. Every waking moment of our lives we could do horrible and unspeakable things. We have the power to do these things the power to interlope (in a certain sense) but we don't because we understand the consequences. In this story neither family did nor could because as this feud went on their judgement was clouded with hatred. Had they seen the consequences they may have thought twice about doing what they did.

1. What is Ulrich hunting for? Gerog 2. How did Ulrich come to own the property in question? Through a judgment of the courts. 3. Why do Ulrich and Georg hate each other? How did it all start? They hate each other because they were raised to. This started when the Znaeyms started poaching on the Gradwitz's land because believed that is should still belong to them. 4. Identify the foreshadowing in the second paragraph."... as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other." 5. Why did they not try to shoot each other the moment they saw each other? Because for the first time they were put in the same situation and could identify with each other. 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? That their own hunting party is going to get there first and kill the other. 8. Why does Ulrich change his mind about killing Georg? Because he had been "... brought up under the cod of civilization and cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighbour in cold blood..."9. What significance is there in the title of this story? What are some possible meanings of the title? The definition of interlopers is a person who moves about illegally on another property. The author is trying to tell us through his title that there is no proper owner of this land, that both Ulrich and Georg are the interlopers. 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 could be the first to "...show honourable attention to the enemy that had become a friend." 11. Describe the irony in this story. The irony in this story is that they wasted their whole lives fighting over this land which ultimately ended in their deaths. 12. What metaphor can you find in relation to the tree pinning down the two characters? The tree pinning Ulrich and Georg down is a metaphor for a figure of authority forcing them to understand how the other feels and to help put this disagreement behind them 13. Is the ending of this story effective? Why or why not?===== Yes and no. it is effective to us the readers in the sense that we're the only ones that know what happened: how the disagreement had ended. It isn't effective to either family in the story because they don't know that Ulrich and Georg had become friends and now with their deaths the disagreement will continue and become even worse. Please space your questions/answers a little better. This is difficult to assess.

Completion: 4/5 Effort: 3.5/5 Content: 4/5

total: 11.5/15

Questions Completion Mark 4/5

total: 15.5/20