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chapintex1
chapintex1
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High School - 10th Grade

Could the "wolves" be referred to as "escaped prisoners" during World War II at the end of the story?

my homework asks twice about the "wolves" as if they were meant to be "escaped prisoners"

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Posted by chapintex1 on Wednesday December 12, 2007 at 12:07 PM and tagged with ending, the interlopers, wolves, world war ii.

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  1. clane Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

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    No I don't think so at all. Saki, or Hector Hugh Munro, the author of the story only lived until 1916, well before World War II even took place. I think the wolves in the story were just that, wolves and nothing more. I don't know that they could even serve as escaped prisoners because there is no indication in the story that alludes to escaped prisoners or even that the wolves were human at all, other than from afar Ulrich and Georg thought they were men.

    Perhaps your teacher would like you think of the wolves as escaped prisoners to see how that might change the outcome of the story since we are left hanging to figure it out for ourselves and the ending is a surprise one. There are just no literary references to World War II or escaped prisoners that I could find.

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    Posted by clane on Wednesday December 12, 2007 at 12:38 PM