The+Interlopers

-Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: A Mountain Journey Point of View: Third person

Protagonist: Ulrich Von Gradwitz

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

Antagonist: Georg Znaeym

Describe the setting: In the Carpathian mountains, Europe, The mood is tense.

Type of Conflict: Man v.s Man

Describe the main conflict: The main conflict of this story is  The two men hate each other over a long standing disagreement and lawsuit about the land. Describe the Climax of the Story:  The climax is when the giant beech tree falls and traps them both underneath it. Also when instead of their men coming to save them its a pack of wolves.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? He changes dramatically because ever since he was born he has been an enemy of Georg Znaeym, but after finally meeting and talking to him in a dire situation, they have become friends.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.  The title "The Interlopers" describes and intrusion or of not being welcome. This could been on personal matters or on land. The theme is all about what people don't know about their surroundings or about others. Therefore the title and the theme both relate to how you can so easily intrude on land or another person just because you don't really know them.

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;"> The main conflict illustrates the theme because the two men don't really know each other at all. They have no reason to hate each other other than the fact that a long time ago their grandfathers had a disagreement. They never themselves to get to know each other.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; 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;"> Neither man knew the tree would fall and trap them underneath. Or that the luck of them both being trapped and in pain led them to get to know each other and to realize they didn't really hate each other.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; 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: 19px; 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;">"Were running like driven things to-night. "

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphor: Relief at being alive and exasperation at his captive plight brought a strange medley of pious thank-offerings and sharp curses to Ulrich's lips.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; 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;">"A fierce shriek of the storm..."

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; 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;">The tree trapping them is a symbol for a courtroom, because they are being held against their will, but peace is the end result.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; 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;"> "... as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other." <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads, and ere they could leap aside a mass of falling beech tree thundered down on them." It's ironic because they were hoping for bad things to happen to each other and the tree fell on both of them.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; 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;">After years of disagreement the two men decide to become friends but before anyone knows about it they are killed by wolves.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; 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;">"Listening through the whistling and swirling of the wind and the restless beating of branches."

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; 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;">In this story the two men really don't know each other. They are strangers except for the one thing that pulls them together and tears them apart - a long standing feud over the land. Each man has their own little mystery about themself that the other doesn't know, and both try to intrude upon it. This fact makes them very human because everyone has something other people doesn't know.

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