The+Interlopers

He is hunting for a human enemy - Georg Znaeym
 * 1. What is Ulrich hunting for?**

Back in his grandfather's time, there had been a lawsuit in which the land was taken from his neighbor's - the Znaeym's, because it was said they owned it illegally.
 * 2. How did Ulrich come to own the property in question?**

It all started when the the Znaeym's land was given to the von Gradwitz because it was said to be illegally owned. The two men hate each other because of that family feud which began years and years ago.
 * 3. Why do Ulrich and Georg hate each other? How did it all start?**

"... as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other."
 * 4. Identify the foreshadowing in the second paragraph.**

They grew up in a civilized community and it was not civil to shoot someone in cold blood.
 * 5. Why did they not try to shoot each other the moment they saw each other?**

His heavy hunting boots**.**
 * 6. What saves Ulrich’s feet from being crushed?**

They tell each other that their men are close behind and will be the first there to save them.
 * 7. What lies do they tell each other after realizing they are both trapped under the tree?**

His hatred was dying down and he decided that the feud was so pointless because it was just over a silly forest.
 * 8. Why does Ulrich change his mind about killing Georg?**

The title means that not only land is being intruded upon but also personal matters.
 * 9. What significance is there in the title of this story? What are some possible meanings of the title?**

So that they can be the first to show honorable attention to the other. To prove that they were the one who started the friendship.
 * 10. In the end of the story why do each of the men hope that their men will come first to rescue him?**

It's ironic that after years of argument, they finally decided to settle it, but they are killed by wolves before anyone can find out about it.
 * 11. Describe the irony in this story.**


 * 12. What metaphor can you find in relation to the tree pinning down the two characters?**
 * The tree is like a massive cage that traps them.**

I believe it is because it gives the story some irony and adds a climax that i was not expecting!
 * 13. Is the ending of this story effective? Why or why not?**

Short Stories - Literary Devises
**Title:** The Interlopers

**Point of View**: Thrid Person

**Protagonist:** Ulrich von Gradwitz

**What type of character is the Protagonist?** Round, dynamic

**Antagonist:** Nature

**Describe the setting:** -Cold, stormy night -Carpathian forest (von Gradwtiz land) -Tense, furious moon

**Type of Conflict:** Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Man

**Describe the main conflict:** The two men hate eachother over a long standing disagreement and lawsuit about the land.

**Describe the Climax of the Story:** The climaz is when the giant beech tree falls and traps them both underneath it. Also when instead of their men coming to save them its a pack of wolves.

**How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?** He changes dramatically because ever since he was born he has been an enemy of Georg Znaeym, but after finally meeting and talking to him in a dire situation, they have become friends.

**Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.** The title "The Interlopers" describes and intrusion or of not being welcome. This could been on personal matters or on land. The theme is all about what people don't know about their surroundings or about others. Therefore the title and the theme both relate to how you can so easily intude on land or another person just because you don't realy knwo them.

**How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?** The main confict illustrates the theme because the two men don't really know eachother at all. They have no reason to hate each other other than the fact that a long time ago their gradnfathers had a disagreement. They never themselves to get to know each other.

**How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?** Neither man knew the tree would fall and trap them underneath. Or that the luck of them both being trapped and in pain led them to get to know each other and to realize they didn't really hate each other,

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

**Simile:** "...were running like driven things tonight."

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

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

**Symbol:** The tree trapping them is a symbol for a courtroom, because they are being held against their will, but peace is the end result.

**Foreshadowing (give both elements):** "... as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other." "A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads, and ere they could leap aside a mass of falling beech tree thundered down on them."

**Irony:** After years of disagreement the two men decide to become friends but before anyone knows about it they are killed by wolves**.**

**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.** In this story the two men really don't know each other. They are strangers except for the one thing that pulls them together and tears them apart - a long standing feud over the land. Each man has their own little mystery about themself that the other doesn't know, and both try to intrude upon it.

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