The+Interlopers

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:  __The Interlopers .__

Point of View: Third person view

Protagonist: Ulrich Von Gradwitz, Georg Znaeym

What type of character is the Protagonist? Round, dynamic character

Antagonist: The Feud between two people.

Describe the setting  This takes place in the forest on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians.

Type of Conflict: Man vs man

Describe the main conflict: Two men fighting over a territory. The fight that has been going for 3 generations between two families.

Describe the Climax of the Story: Two men decides to be friends.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? At first, two men were determined to follow each other to the end of the world to kill each other. But in the end, two men decides to form a friendship.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The title is “The Interlopers”, and the theme is ”Enemies can always be friends”. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Two men were fighting over a territory, and when they saw each other, they called the land theirs, and argued about it. However, in the end, they decide to be friends.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Man vs man, they were enemies that decides to put an end to their feud.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> When they decide to be friends, they knew it wasn’t too late to be friends.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simile: One arm numb beneath him and the other held almost as helplessly in a tight tangle of forked branches.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphor: Lay listening to the weary screeching of the wind.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personification: Fierce shriek of the storm

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol: In the end, wolves symbolize death, and the feud that will never end.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): Ulrich offered Georg his wine flask. By this, we can tell that one of them wants freedom between two families.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: Ulrich saw figures approaching them, thinking they are saved. But instead, they turn out to be wolves.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery: “The two enemies stood glaring at one another for a long silent moment. Each had a rifle in his hand, each had hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind. The chance had come to give full play to the passions of a lifetime. ”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The class theme is “Hate”. When two enemies fight, they want the fight to end. They don’t want a never ending fight. To this problem, they can do two things; kill their enemies and let the fight continue with their descendants, or call truce and pretend that there was no problem at all.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Completion 5/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Effort 4/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Content 4/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13/15