The+Interlopers+Literary+Devices

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


 * Point of View: **Third Person

**Protagonist**: Ulrich von Gradwitz & Georg Znaeym They are both round and dynamic
 * What type of character is the Protagonist? **
 * Antagonist ****:** Ulrich von Gradwitz & Georg Znaeym

In the forest on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians on a winter night. The mood of the story, I would say is tence
 * Describe the setting **


 * Type of Conflict: ** Man vs. Man

The main conflict is Georg poaching on Ulrich’s land.
 * Describe the main conflict: **

**Describe the Climax of the Story**: The climax of the story is when they are stuck under the tree and they think their men are coming to save them but really it’s just a bunch of wolves coming.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ulrich and Georg start the story strongly disliking each other but by the end befriending one an other, which no one friends out about.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The theme of this story is Georg poaching on the forest boundary of Ulrich’s land. The title Interlopers relates to the theme because interloper means trespassing, which Georg was doing on Ulrich’s land.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The main conflict, Ulrich vs. Georg represents the theme because Ulrich is out ‘’hunting’’ for Georg on his land.
 * <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;">They start the story ready to kill each other if given the opportunity, they both get stuck under a tree, become friends then die because of wolves
 * <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;">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: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The roebucks, were running like driven things.”


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphor: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“hate in his heart”


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personification: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“ The whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches.”


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When the tree fell on the two men, representing the unknown. If their going to live or not?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“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 that passions of a lifetime. But a man who has been brought up under the code of restraining civilization cannot easily word spoken, except for an offence again his hearth and honor.” This foreshadows that they probably won’t end up killing each other.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The irony in this story is when they become friends, saying they’ll ride into town together, go hunting together and have dinner. But no one would ever find out because of the ending of the story, which doesn’t directly tell you but when the die due to the wolves. “Neighbour, if you will help me to bury this quarral I --- I will ask you to be my friend." & "How the whole region would stare and gabble if we rode into the square-market together. No one living can remember when a Znaeym and Von Gradwitz talking to one another in friendship."


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He strayed away by himself from the watchers whom he had placed in ambush on the crest of the hill, and wandered far down the steep slopes amid the wild tangle of the undergrowth, peering through the tree-trucks and listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for the sight or sound of the marauders.

<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;">Humanity has it’s likes and dislikes but needs likes, the theme is Ulrich and Georg disliking each other but for no logical reason, just because they were raised that way.

<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