The+interlopers


 * Short Stories - Literary Devises**

**Title: The Interlopers**

**Point of View:** **3rd person**

**Protagonist:** **What type of character is the Protagonist?** **Round, Dynamic**

**Antagonist:** **Flat, Dynamic**

**Describe the setting** **Place: A forest, somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians.** **Time: Winter** **Mood: Eerie, Tense, Suspense**

**Type of Conflict:** **Man vs. Man, and Man vs. Environment**

**Describe the main conflict:** **Man vs. Man, because if they didn’t hate each other, they would never have ended up stuck under the tree.**

**Describe the Climax of the Story:** **When they see the wolves, because nothing else happens.**

**How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?** **He starts out wanting to kill a foe, but ends in dieing with a new friend.**

**Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.** **The title; “the Interlopers”, I think refers to everyone always interviening, and the theme, work things out for yourself, before it’s too late.**

**How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?** **I believe that if Ulrich and Georg had sat down and tried to work out their problems, they would have made friends like they did underneath the tree. Kind of like when you were little, and you got in a fight with another kid, your parents made you sit down and talk it out.**

**How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?** **The Climax illustrating that if you don’t work out your problems, you’ll get into a big mess, like when the wolves come, there is no hope left for them.**

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

**Simile:** **“The Roebuck…were running like driven things tonight…”**

**Metaphor:** **“As boys they had thirsted for each others blood.”**

**Personification:** **??**

**Symbol:** **The tree, like gods hand holding them down to solve their problems.**

**Foreshadowing (give both elements):** **??**

**Irony:** **In the beginning, they are trying to kill each other, but at they end, they die together.**

**Imagery:** **“… there is so much blood caked round my eyes,”**

**Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.** How they are powerless against the tree.

A human Enemy! O.o A lawsuit granted it to his grandfather as a consequence of illegal possessions from the last owners. The families have been in feud for three generations because the family that got their land taken away were poaching in Ulrich's land. "The shooting it afforded", foreshadowing that there is going t be a shooting. The code of a restraining civilization, and honour. Heavy shooting boots. That when either of the men's men get there to save him, they will kill the other man. Because lying there, thinking that he could die, he realized that he was being silly and childish over a feud, from the grandfathers. Interlopers are people who intervien in their personal business, At the beginning, both men wanted to kill each other as enemies, but at the end, they die together as friends. The tree, like the hand of god, forceing them to spend time together and work out their problems, like when you were a kid, and you and another little kid got in a fight and your parents force you to be together to make amends. I do not think so, because I don't believe that death is a good way to end the story, it leaves your reader dis-satisfied, and upset.
 * 1. What is Ulrich hunting for? **
 * 2. How did Ulrich come to own the property in question? **
 * 3. Why do Ulrich and Georg hate each other? How did it all start? **
 * 4. Identify the foreshadowing in the second paragraph. **
 * 5. Why did they not try to shoot each other the moment they saw each other? **
 * 6. What saves Ulrich’s feet from being crushed? **
 * 7. What lies do they tell each other after realizing they are both trapped under the tree? **
 * 8. Why does Ulrich change his mind about killing Georg? **
 * 9. What significance is there in the title of this story? What are some possible meanings of the title? **
 * 10. In the end of the story why do each of the men hope that their men will come first to rescue him? **
 * 11. Describe the irony in this story. **
 * 12. What metaphor can you find in relation to the tree pinning down the two characters? **
 * 13. Is the ending of this story effective? Why or why not? **

Completion 4/5 Effort 3/5 Content 3/5

total 10/15

Questions Completion Mark 4/5

total 14/20