The+Interlopers


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


 * Point of View: ** 3rd person


 * Protagonist: ** Ulrich, and Georg


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


 * Antagonist: ** Ulrich, and Georg


 * Describe the setting: ** The forest lands of Gradwitz, or the eastern spurs of Carpathians. The atmosphere is a dark cold gloomy feeling, in a time around the early 1900’s.


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


 * Describe the main conflict: ** Two men, enemies of each other, are stuck under a tree, hoping that their men will come and save them, before the man does.


 * Describe the Climax of the Story: ** The climax of the story is when then men see some figures coming out of the woods. They thought they were going to be saved but instead, there were wolves running towards them.


 * How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?: ** In the beginning of the story, these two men fiercely hate each other, but as the story moves on they both start to think “Why do we hate each other?”, so they put all bad things aside, and one man offers the other their wine. This sets a friendlier mood between the two, and they agree that they will be enemies no more, but friends.


 * Describe the relationship between the title and the theme: ** “Interlopers” means trespasser, and the theme is that anyone can change personalities, and there are great benefits from it. The connection between the two is that when they are both stuck under a tree, one man is actually trespassing, but they still make become allies.


 * How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?: ** The main conflict, pretty much is the theme. When Georg, and Ulrich are stuck under the tree, they decide that instead of becoming enemies, they’ll become friends, and end the family feud.


 * How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?: ** Even after the two men bond, and end the family feud, it will actually never happen. That is because in the climax, the wolves run down and it seems as they will die. What that means is, no one will actually know that they were going to end the family feud, and it wary on.


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


 * Simile: ** "We have quarreled like devils"


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


 * Personification: ** "The tearing in fitful gusts through the naked branches and whistling round the tree trunks"


 * Symbol: ** The wolves are a symbol for death. It never says that they die, but the reader can still predict what is going to happen next.

"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."
 * Foreshadowing (give both elements): ** "As men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other."


 * Irony: ** In the end of the story, the two men had become good friends, but they were about to get eaten by wolves.


 * Imagery: ** "He strayed away by himself from the watchers whom he had placed in ambush on the crest of the hill"

The class theme, humanity, related to this story because... Humanity is all about emotions, both positive and negative. In the story Ulrich, and Georg both have positive mood swings and become friends. That is humanity. To be able to make a bad situation, into a good one.
 * Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. **

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