Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: The Interlopers
Point of View:
Third person point of view, because is someone talking about them not they talking about themselves.
Protagonist: Ulrich von Gradwitz
There is no clear protagonist and antagonist in "The Interlopers." The two main characters, Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaey are equals in nearly every way.
What type of character is the Protagonist?
Dynamic Character, because he change a lot over time in the story.
Antagonist: Georg Znaeym
Describe the setting
The setting of the story is take place in a forest from the eastern spurs of the Carpathians during winter night.
Type of Conflict: Man vs. ManIt can also be Man vs. self, because if they put down the argument, everything won't be happen. It is themselves to causing everything to happen, so there can be two types of conflict in the story, it can be Man vs. Man and Man vs. Self, but I thinkMan vs. Self is stronger than Man vs. Man.
Describe the main conflict: Ulrich and Georg are hating each other; their family fights for three generation for a piece of land.
Both of them are trying to hunt their enemy, and start causing a series fight.
Describe the Climax of the Story: The climax of the story is when they ask each other to be friend, because the moment they ask each other, there are a mystery behind them, the mystery is why they want to be friends, what changes after the reconciliation, no one knows are there some tricks behind it and leave a bunch of questions.
How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?
He changes over time by realizing there are nothing good about for fighting, so they talk it out between themselves and become friend.
Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.
I think the theme is " Talk out the difference between you and your enemy, and bury the old quarrel before it is too late".
The title is " The Interlopers", it means an environment or situation that people don't want to stay. The title helps to create the theme; the situation in this story is a falling beech tree had thundered down on them,
If that didn't happened, they won't ask to be friend, and the theme won't be clear enough.
How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?
The main conflict in this story is Man vs. Man, they are being stupid for the beginning by hunting each other, but they realize everything when they are under a bad situation, and turn out to be friend. The main conflict is like a connection of the theme, and it also give hints for the theme, almost same as a foreshadowing of the story.
How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?
The climax is the moment they ask to be friend, that tells there is character development inside the climax, and the climax helps the theme to become clearer.
Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):
Simile: " The wine was warming and reviving to the wounded man, and he looked across with something like a throb of pity to where his enemy lay"...
There maybe no simile in this story.
Metaphor: "A man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision".
"Fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads".
The tree can be a person that helps both character to solve the problem, in this situation, the author use tree to describe as a person, a god, a chance.
Personification: "An idea was slowly forming and growing in his brain".
Idea can't grow , because idea is not a living thing.
" In the cold, gloomy forest, with the wind tearing in fitful gusts through the naked branches and whistling rounds the tree trunks".
The wind can't tearing, can't whistling.
" Ulrich was silent for a few minutes, and lay listening to the weary screeching of the wind".
" Listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for sight of sound of the marauders".
Symbol: "In the cold, gloomy forest, with the wind tearing in fitful gusts through the naked branches and whistling round the tree trunks".
It makes us to create a picture in our brain, I think the symbol is a green dark tree .
Foreshadowing (give both elements):
"Nature's own violence overwhelmed them both".
It give a hint about the nature will punish them.
" A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads, and ere that could leap aside a mass of falling beech tree had thundered down on them".
Irony:
" If you will help me to bury the old quarrel I --- I will ask you to be my friend."
It is ironic because there is a indicating, as through character development, the attitude is opposite to that which is actually stated.
At first, they are hate each other, but when they trap under a huge beech tree, they realize quarreled is stupid, so they changed their mind, and ask to be friend.
The conclusion also ironic, because they already solve the problem and being friend, but at the end, there are wolves come and maybe going to eat them, if the wolves did eat them, then no one know the problem has been solved, and it will continue on and on by next generation.
Imagery:
" Listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for sight or sound of the marauders".
This sentence can let us create an image in our mind;and this sentence also used the two of five senses .
Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.
Our class theme is mystery, and the conclusion of "The Interlopers" didn't give a clear ending, if give questions to people, and leave bunch of mysteries to let people's imagination to solve it.
People never know what happen at last, and don't know those wolf are eating the characters in the story or help them to free from the big beech tree. The mystery behind it gives out human imagination to let people make up the end by themselves.
1. What is Ulrich hunting for? Ulrich is hunting Georg for a piece of land.
2. How did Ulrich come to own the property in question? In the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighboring family of petty landowners.
3. Why do Ulrich and Georg hate each other? How did it all start?
Because they want that piece of land, their family fights three generation for a piece of land.
4. Identify the foreshadowing in the second paragraph.
" The roebuck, which usually kept in the the sheltered hollows during a storm- wind, were running like driven things tonight, and there was movement and unrest among the creatures that were wont to sleep the dark hours". This tell us there are a storm wind coming, and that storm wind will causing changes in the story, because the author won't mention the storm wind by use that much of time, that is representing the storm wind is very important.
5. Why did they not try to shoot each other the moment they saw each other?
Because they can't nerve themselves to shoot down his neighbor in cold blood and without word spoken.
6. What saves Ulrich’s feet from being crushed?
His heavy shooting boots had saved his feet from being crushed to pieces.
7. What lies do they tell each other after realizing they are both trapped under the tree?
They both said their men are looking for them.
8. Why does Ulrich change his mind about killing Georg?
Because he realized it was a stupid cause for what they are fighting for.
9. What significance is there in the title of this story? What are some possible meanings of the title?
The title means someone don't want to be there, it give a hint about someone will trap in somewhere or living in some place he doesn't like it.
10. In the end of the story why does each of the men hope that their men will come first to rescue him?
Because they want to show honorable attention to the enemy that had become a friend.
11. Describe the irony in this story.
At first, they are hate each other, but when they trap under a huge beech tree, they realize quarreled is stupid, so they changed their mind, and ask to be friend.
There are character developments at the moment. And the conclusion also is the irony, because at the end, there are wolves come and maybe going to eat them, if the wolves did eat them, then no one knows the problem has been solved, and it will continue on and on by the next generation.
12. What metaphor can you find in relation to the tree pinning down the two characters?
A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads.
The tree acts like a person or a god to help them to solve the problems between both of them.
13. Is the ending of this story effective? Why or why not?
The ending of this story is effective, because it leave a bunch of question to let the viewers to solve, and make audience to wants to know what happen next.
Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: The Interlopers
Point of View:
Third person point of view, because is someone talking about them not they talking about themselves.
Protagonist: Ulrich von Gradwitz
There is no clear protagonist and antagonist in "The Interlopers." The two main characters, Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaey are equals in nearly every way.
What type of character is the Protagonist?
Dynamic Character, because he change a lot over time in the story.
Antagonist: Georg Znaeym
Describe the setting
The setting of the story is take place in a forest from the eastern spurs of the Carpathians during winter night.
Type of Conflict: Man vs. ManIt can also be Man vs. self, because if they put down the argument, everything won't be happen. It is themselves to causing everything to happen, so there can be two types of conflict in the story, it can be Man vs. Man and Man vs. Self, but I thinkMan vs. Self is stronger than Man vs. Man.
Describe the main conflict: Ulrich and Georg are hating each other; their family fights for three generation for a piece of land.
Both of them are trying to hunt their enemy, and start causing a series fight.
Describe the Climax of the Story: The climax of the story is when they ask each other to be friend, because the moment they ask each other, there are a mystery behind them, the mystery is why they want to be friends, what changes after the reconciliation, no one knows are there some tricks behind it and leave a bunch of questions.
How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?
He changes over time by realizing there are nothing good about for fighting, so they talk it out between themselves and become friend.
Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.
I think the theme is " Talk out the difference between you and your enemy, and bury the old quarrel before it is too late".
The title is " The Interlopers", it means an environment or situation that people don't want to stay. The title helps to create the theme; the situation in this story is a falling beech tree had thundered down on them,
If that didn't happened, they won't ask to be friend, and the theme won't be clear enough.
How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?
The main conflict in this story is Man vs. Man, they are being stupid for the beginning by hunting each other, but they realize everything when they are under a bad situation, and turn out to be friend. The main conflict is like a connection of the theme, and it also give hints for the theme, almost same as a foreshadowing of the story.
How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?
The climax is the moment they ask to be friend, that tells there is character development inside the climax, and the climax helps the theme to become clearer.
Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):
Simile: " The wine was warming and reviving to the wounded man, and he looked across with something like a throb of pity to where his enemy lay"...
There maybe no simile in this story.
Metaphor: "A man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision".
"Fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads".
The tree can be a person that helps both character to solve the problem, in this situation, the author use tree to describe as a person, a god, a chance.Personification: "An idea was slowly forming and growing in his brain".
Idea can't grow , because idea is not a living thing." In the cold, gloomy forest, with the wind tearing in fitful gusts through the naked branches and whistling rounds the tree trunks".
The wind can't tearing, can't whistling." Ulrich was silent for a few minutes, and lay listening to the weary screeching of the wind".
" Listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for sight of sound of the marauders".
Symbol: "In the cold, gloomy forest, with the wind tearing in fitful gusts through the naked branches and whistling round the tree trunks".
It makes us to create a picture in our brain, I think the symbol is a green dark tree .Foreshadowing (give both elements):
"Nature's own violence overwhelmed them both".
It give a hint about the nature will punish them.
" A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads, and ere that could leap aside a mass of falling beech tree had thundered down on them".
Irony:
" If you will help me to bury the old quarrel I --- I will ask you to be my friend."
It is ironic because there is a indicating, as through character development, the attitude is opposite to that which is actually stated.
At first, they are hate each other, but when they trap under a huge beech tree, they realize quarreled is stupid, so they changed their mind, and ask to be friend.
The conclusion also ironic, because they already solve the problem and being friend, but at the end, there are wolves come and maybe going to eat them, if the wolves did eat them, then no one know
the problem has been solved, and it will continue on and on by next generation.
Imagery:
" Listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for sight or sound of the marauders".
This sentence can let us create an image in our mind;and this sentence also used the two of five senses .Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.
Our class theme is mystery, and the conclusion of "The Interlopers" didn't give a clear ending, if give questions to people, and leave bunch of mysteries to let people's imagination to solve it.
People never know what happen at last, and don't know those wolf are eating the characters in the story or help them to free from the big beech tree. The mystery behind it gives out human imagination to let people make up the end by themselves.
1. What is Ulrich hunting for? Ulrich is hunting Georg for a piece of land.
2. How did Ulrich come to own the property in question? In the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighboring family of petty landowners.
3. Why do Ulrich and Georg hate each other? How did it all start?
Because they want that piece of land, their family fights three generation for a piece of land.
4. Identify the foreshadowing in the second paragraph.
" The roebuck, which usually kept in the the sheltered hollows during a storm- wind, were running like driven things tonight, and there was movement and unrest among the creatures that were wont to sleep the dark hours". This tell us there are a storm wind coming, and that storm wind will causing changes in the story, because the author won't mention the storm wind by use that much of time, that is representing the storm wind is very important.5. Why did they not try to shoot each other the moment they saw each other?
Because they can't nerve themselves to shoot down his neighbor in cold blood and without word spoken.
6. What saves Ulrich’s feet from being crushed?
His heavy shooting boots had saved his feet from being crushed to pieces.
7. What lies do they tell each other after realizing they are both trapped under the tree?
They both said their men are looking for them.
8. Why does Ulrich change his mind about killing Georg?
Because he realized it was a stupid cause for what they are fighting for.
9. What significance is there in the title of this story? What are some possible meanings of the title?
The title means someone don't want to be there, it give a hint about someone will trap in somewhere or living in some place he doesn't like it.
10. In the end of the story why does each of the men hope that their men will come first to rescue him?
Because they want to show honorable attention to the enemy that had become a friend.
11. Describe the irony in this story.
At first, they are hate each other, but when they trap under a huge beech tree, they realize quarreled is stupid, so they changed their mind, and ask to be friend.
There are character developments at the moment. And the conclusion also is the irony, because at the end, there are wolves come and maybe going to eat them, if the wolves did eat them, then no one knows the problem has been solved, and it will continue on and on by the next generation.
12. What metaphor can you find in relation to the tree pinning down the two characters?
A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads.
The tree acts like a person or a god to help them to solve the problems between both of them.13. Is the ending of this story effective? Why or why not?
The ending of this story is effective, because it leave a bunch of question to let the viewers to solve, and make audience to wants to know what happen next.
Completion 5/5Effort 4/5
Content 4/5
total 13/15
Questions Completion Mark4/5
total: 17/20