The+interlopers

Completion 5/5 Effort 3.5/5 Content 4/5

total 12.5/15

Questions Completion Mark 4/5

total 16.5/20   1. What is Ulrich hunting for? Ulrich is hunting for Georg Znaeym.

2. How did Ulrich come to own the property in question? By a lawsuit that was for the illegal possesion of it from the neighbors to Ulrich';s grandfather. 3. Why do Ulrich and Georg hate each other? How did it all start? Because they inherited the fued of their forefathers and never resolved it. It all started with the lawsuit for the strip of forest. 4. Identify the foreshadowing in the second paragraph. " Assuredly There was a disterbing element in the forest, and Ulrich could guess the quarter from whence it came." 5. Why did they not try to shoot each other the moment they saw each other? Because they had a chance to give full play to the passions of a lifetime. 6. What saves Ulrich’s feet from being crushed? His Heavy shooting boots. 7. What lies do they tell each other after realizing they are both trapped under the tree? That their men were close behind them and would come looking for them. 8. Why does Ulrich change his mind about killing Georg? Because he realizes that there are more important things in life than a border quarrel and wants to end it. 9. What significance is there in the title of this story? What are some possible meanings of the title? The signifigance is that they are both intruders in each other's mind and that is what an interloper is. 10. In the end of the story why do each of the men hope that their men will come first to rescue him? Because they are hurt and need help or else they will die. 11. Describe the irony in this story. In the beginning they both wanted to will each other and in the end they became friends only to die moments later. It is dramatic irony. 12. What metaphor can you find in relation to the tree pinning down the two characters? The tree could something to save their relationship before it ended and that the characters could reconcile to each other. 13. Is the ending of this story effective? Why or why not? Yes, because it is ironic and makes you think about why it is ironic.

Matt Haussmann

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: __The interlopers__

Point of View: omniscient, narrator

Protagonist: Ulrich von Gladwitz

What type of character is the Protagonist? He is flat and dynamic because he is quite stereotypical, a countryman carrying on a land feud, and he realizes that here is no point and that there are better things to do in life.

Antagonist: Georg Znaeym

Describe the setting: Set in the Carpathian Mountains possibly in Romania or Ukraine. They have guns and wine flasks so the time may be from the 1800’s to now possibly. The overall mood is kind of gloomy and melancholy.

Type of Conflict: Man vs. Man

Describe the main conflict:  Ulrich von Gladwitz is fighting Georg Znaeym over a strip of forest that his grandfather had legally taken from Georg Znaeym’s grandfather.

Describe the Climax of the Story: Ulrich and Georg Znaeym are trapped under a fallen tree and Ulrich suddenly realizes that there is a better way to live than constant fighting over the strip of forest. Then they become friends.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? He changes because he was originally going to kill Georg Znaeym but then after that they both get stuck under a fallen tree he has a change of heart and decides that there is more to life than just a land feud.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Describe the relationship between the title and the theme: <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">The title “The Interlopers” means intruders and the story has two men fighting over a strip of land which they both think is theirs, so in both minds the other man is the interloper. The theme of the story is wanting and both men want the land and believe that it is theirs and want the other man to off their land.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">The main conflict is Ulrich von Gladwitz fighting over land against Georg Znaeym and the theme is wanting. The conflict would not be happening if it wasn’t for wanting the land from both sides.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">The climax helps to illustrate the theme because both men get perspective of why the feud was pointless and obsolete so they stop it.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Simile: “… a though he waited for some beast of the woods to come into the range of his vision, and, later, his rifle.”

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Metaphor: “The feud might have died down if the personal ill will of both the men had not been so great.”

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Personification: “…Nature’s own violence overwhelmed them both.”

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Symbol: The wine flask was a symbol of hospitality and receded hostility when Ulrich threw it to Georg.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">1. “The Roebuck, which usually kept in 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 through the dark hours.”(Exact phrasing). The Roebuck would only be running if there was a disturbance. <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">2. “And as he stepped round the trunk of a huge beech he came face to face with the man he sought.” In the end, it was Georg Znaeym that caused the disturbance.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Irony: After a lifetime of rivalry, the men decide to become friends and then a few minutes later they die. It is dramatic irony.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Imagery: “…amid the wild tangle of undergrowth peering through tree trunks and listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for sight or sound of the marauders.”

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story: <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Choices are the class theme and choices make a chain reaction depending on what you previously did. Ulrich made some choices and they lead ultimately to his death. The whole story is a chain reaction that started with Ulrich’s grandfather’s decision to take the land.