The+Interlopers

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: The Interlopers - By: Sabrina and Angela

Point of View: Limited Omniscient

Protagonist: Ulrich von Gradwitz What type of character is the Protagonist? Dynamic

Antagonist:Georg Znaeym

Describe the setting: In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathian s Mountains, Romania. On a winter night, during the late 1800s. There’s tension in the air because of the feud between the two men.

Type of Conflict: Man vs. Man

Describe the main conflict: A quest for a human enemy, between the two families for three generations, a neighboring feud that had gone personal because the Ulrich family had inherited illegal possession of neighboring families land.

Describe the Climax of the Story: The first thing that leads to the climax is when they meet each other face-to-face, then we think the climax is when the beech tree falls and they learn to forgive each other for their families problems.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? At the beginning he feels really mad and revengeful but after talking with his enemy, he felt as if the old fierce hatred had died down and they became at peace with each other.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. We think the theme of the story is forgiveness because they were fighting over something that wasn’t their own problem. It was from generations before when their families quarreled, in the end they realized this and worked things out. The title “The Interlopers” means a person who becomes involved in a place or situation they do not want to be in. This relates to the theme because they didn’t want to be in this fight because they were blinded by hatred and they realized this at the end.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? Man vs. Man helps illustrate the theme because it takes two humans to create forgiveness.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The theme is forgiveness and the climax is illustrated when they realize they shouldn’t be fighting and “there are better things in life than getting the better of a boundary dispute”

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

Simile: “ A man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come...”

Metaphor: Not Available

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Personification: “Ulrich was silent for a few minutes, and lay listening to the weary screeching of the wind”

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Symbol: The rifle that Ulrich held, symbolized death for his enemy.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">“ The feud might, perhaps, have died down or been compromised if the personal ill will of the two men had not stood in the way” This foreshadows that the men might forgive each other after they come face-to face, “If you help me to bury the old quarrel I will ask you to be my friend”

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Irony: “Ho, what a jest, Ulrich von Gradwitz snared in his stolen forest. There’s real justice for you!”

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Imagery: All around them lay a thick-strewn wreckage of splintered branches and broken twigs.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The relationship between the class theme, power and the story’s theme, forgiveness is that forgiveness is powerful, in this case it had the power to free two men of their ill will against one another. “How the whole region would stare and gabble if we rode into the market-square together. No one living can remember seeing a Znaeym and a Von Gradwitz talking to one another in friendship” This would be a powerful example for all the people of the region to see that even the biggest feud could be resolved.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1. What is Ulrich hunting for? His Human Enemy, Georg Znaeym <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 2. How did Ulrich come to own the property in question? A famous lawsuit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighboring family of petty landowners. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 3. Why do Ulrich and Georg hate each other? How did it all start? Three generations before them, the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgement of the Courts and a long series of similar scandals had embittered the relationship between the families. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 4. Identify the foreshadowing in the second paragraph. "If there was one man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym" Foreshadowing somehow Georg would get hurt even if it wasn't by Ulrich. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 5. Why did they not try to shoot each other the moment they saw each other? They didn't shoot at each other because they knew a man who has been brought up under the code of a restraining cilvilization cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighboring cold blood and without word spoken, except for an offense against his hearth and honor ". <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 6. What saves Ulrich’s feet from being crushed? His heavy shooting-boots. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 7. What lies do they tell each other after realizing they are both trapped under the tree? They lied saying that there men were following be hide them. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 8. Why does Ulrich change his mind about killing Georg? He realized there are better things in life than getting the better of a boundary dispute. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 9. What significance is there in the title of this story? What are some possible meanings of the title? Already answered above. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 10. In the end of the story why do each of the men hope that their men will come first to rescue him? Before they forgive each other, both Ulrich and Georg hope their men come first so they could kill their enemy. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 11. Describe the irony in this story. This story is ironic because they're both fighting each other for this land, but it is what ends up potentially killing both of them. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 12. What metaphor can you find in relation to the tree pinning down the two characters? The tree is a peacemaker for the two characters, after the beech tree fell the two men could not get up and leave, all they could do was sit there wait, talk and work things out. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 13. Is the ending of this story effective? Why or why not? Yes, it is because it's very suspenseful and leaves not knowing what's going to come. (A cliff-hanger)

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Completion: 5/5 Effort: 4/5 Content: 4/5

total: 13/15

Questions Completion Mark 4/5

total: 17/20