the+interlopers

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: The Interlopers __Point of View__: third person

__Protagonist:__ Ulrich Von Gradwitz __What type of character is the Protagonist__? hes a good guy but wants his property to hiself.

__Antagonist__: nature

__Describe the setting__ The setting in the story is about who owns the property, who owns the lame. Its about trespassing

__Type of Conflict__: Ulrich and Georg hate each other and want to kill each other

__Describe the main conflict__: they think they think one of them owns the lame but doesn’t know which one.

__Describe the Climax of the Story__: whem georg and Ulrich both get crushed by a tree and then they become friends, then all of a sudden wolves come.

__How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?__ At the begening of the story Ulrich hates georg and by the end the two enemies become friends.

__Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.__ the title describes the theme. The theme is trespassing and that is what the title means

__How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?__ It the two people hate each other and want each other off their property but there both trespassing.

__How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?__ The enemies become friends then the wolves come so even if u hate someone, if your by yourself with them in the end you might not hate them in the end.

__Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):__

__Simile__:were running like driven things tonight.

__Metaphor:__A fierce shriek of the storm

__Personification:__

__Symbol:__ asked him if he wanted some wine, symbol of friendship

__Foreshadowing (give both elements):__Ulrich wanted to kill Georg, but once the tree stuck them and they were together they ended up becoming friends.

__Irony:__ both the guys are trying to kill each other and they end up both getting killed together by wolves

I__magery__:he might come across,man to man.and as he stepped around the trunk of a huge beech he came face to face with the man he sought.

__Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.__ mystery and this theme is similar in different ways. as in the theme for the story is more trespassing, but then in the end u dont know what is going to happen because your not sure if he is going to kill georg or not.

__1. What is Ulrich hunting for?__ Georg Znaeym __2. How did Ulrich come to own the property in question?__ because ulrich has his people on the property. __3. Why do Ulrich and Georg hate each other? How did it all start?__ they both hated each other because they both thought they own the same property, and they didnt want to share it or anything but they both had people on it so they didnt like each other. __4. Identify the foreshadowing in the second paragraph.__ Ulrich tells how much he hates Georg and how he wanted to kill him once he saw him. but then by the end they were alright and became friends. __5. Why did they not try to shoot each other the moment they saw each other?__ they both had guns and if one shot the other one would too. __6. What saves Ulrich’s feet from being crushed?__ his boots __7. What lies do they tell each other after realizing they are both trapped under the tree?__ that if their people came they would run the other peron over and kill them. __8. Why does Ulrich change his mind about killing Georg?__ when Georg tells him that even if his people come first he will make sure they help him fist so he can treat him as if he was a guess of his property. __9. What significance is there in the title of this story? What are some possible meanings of the title?__ the meaning of the title is tresspassing and not obsaying someone. and that is whats going on in the story __10. In the end of the story why do each of the men hope that their men will come first to rescue him?__ so they can get rescuded or that the other persons people will see that he made the idea of being friends. __11. Describe the irony in this story. 12. What metaphor can you find in relation to the tree pinning down the two characters?__ Ulrich wanted to kill Georg and visversa, but then a tree falls on them and they both almost get killed but not by each other. __13. Is the ending of this story effective? Why or why not?__ yes it is because in the end no one will ever know that they became friends or that anything happened.