The Interlopers

I would argue that the main theme of "The Interlopers" is the futility of conflict. Ulrich and Georg are waging a battle over a piece of land that their families have been fighting about for...

The first poster covered the definition and three possible interlopers in the story. However, I would argue that Georg and Ulrich are interlopers themselves. Represented in the external conflict of...

What is unexpected and ironic about the ending is that the men are fighting each other, but they both end up fighting wolves. This is situational irony. “The Interlopers” is a fable about two men...

The word interlopers is itself used as a form of foreshadowing in "The Interlopers." It is mentioned twice by Georg Znaeym, first when the two men are enemies and Georg wants to fight Ulrich with...

In "The Interlopers," the natural setting is everything because the entire conflict upon which the story is built is based on the rightful ownership of a feud between the von Gradwitz and Znaeym...

The ending of “The Interlopers” provides an excellent example of situational irony (when the result of a situation is different from what you expect the result to be). In the story, Ulrich and...

The two main conflicts in the story are man against man and man against nature. Specifically, the first conflict is Ulrich against Georg. Ulrich legally owns the land that once, three generations...

There are both external conflicts and internal conflicts in "The Interlopers." External conflicts: Ulrich von Gradwitz patrols a narrow strip of woodland where there is much game, the strip of land...

In the story The Interlopers, the main theme would be the enmity between Ulrich and Georg, which causes the two men to feud over the small stretch of forest land and become bitter enemies in the...

The feud is caused by an old land dispute between the Gradwitz and Znaeym families. As the other educator pointed out, the feud is inherited by the succeeding generations of both families. The land...

There are many literary devices in the story. First, there is personification. For instance, nature has a life of its own, and she is powerful. In fact, it is nature that pins them down underneath...

The point of view of "The Interlopers" is third-person omniscient narrator. For, the narrator taps into the thoughts and feelings of Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym, even though near the end...

An interloper is an intruder. In the story it is Ulrich, Georg, and their families who are the intruders. Both men feel that the forest belongs to them. They look upon the land as a piece of...

The feud between the Gradwitz and Znaeym families stretches back three generations and is inherited by the two main characters, Ulrich and Georg, who continue to quarrel over a narrow strip of...

Characters in narratives are developed and revealed in a number of indirect ways: through a physical description of the character through the character's actions through the character's thoughts,...

In the short story "The Interlopers," the tone is serious and defensive. Both characters, Gradwitz and Znaeym, have hatred one for the other. The setting affects the tone and mood. It is a dark,...

"The Interlopers" by H.H. Munro (Saki) is a short story which is more about plot than anything else; however, it also contains some elements of figurative language, as you suggest. Idioms are the...

The central conflict in the story is between Ulrich and Georg over a virtually worthless piece of land. It is an example of a man versus man conflict. Their conflict with each other is as a result...

Ulrich von Gradwitz is in the forest to hunt down his archenemy Georg Znaeym in order to kill him. Both Ulrich and Georg despise each other from childhood and their antipathy for each other has...

Since there are two major conflicts, an argument can be made that there are two climactic moments. With the conflict of Man vs. Man, the climax comes when the two enemies, Ulrich von Gradwitz and...

"The Interlopers" by H.H. Munro (whose pseudonym is Saki) is a relatively short, short story. The exposition is essentially the first three paragraphs of the selection, and it tells everything we...

In this line, Georg stops his struggling for a moment to listen to Ulrich. The struggling that he must stop is both a literal, physical kind of struggle as well as a figuritive, symbolic one....

For generations, the Znaeyms and the von Gradwitzes have treated the natural environment as if it were nothing more than a piece of property. Readers never get any sense that these two feuding...

Saki's short story "The Interlopers" ends ironically when the pinned-down characters realize that wolves are approaching them. To create a surprising, ironic ending like this, the writer has to set...

While both men are pinned beneath a tree, Ulrich offers Georg some wine from his flask. Georg refuses his offer. He claims that he does not drink wine with his enemy: Ulrich manages to draw his...

Everything that happens in "The Interlopers" by Saki is connected to one significant reality: Georg Znaeym and Ulrich von Gradwitz are the latest members of a three-generation feud and they detest...

It is interesting that the tree falling down is described as "nature's act of violence." This would support the views given above in #4 and #5. The men are the interlopers into a treacherous...

"The Interlopers" was written by H.H. Munro, who went by the pen name of Saki. The story is set in the Karpathians, and the two protagonists are Georg Znaeym and Ulrich von Gradwitz. Since I am not...

As with most texts, multiple themes are present. Here are a few ... 1. "Man is insignificant to nature." This is apparent when two very powerful men are trapped under a tree and then are...

Ulrich is out patrolling his land, hoping to find Georg and perhaps catch him in the act of poaching. He and Georg meet and confront one another. Each man threatens the other. They seem poised for...

As the story opens, Ulrich von Gradwitz is prowling on his land looking for his mortal enemy, Georg Znaeym. In the time of Ulrich's grandfather, the family of Georg Znaeym had lost possession of...

The rising action of "The Interlopers" begins as Ulrich von Gradwitz and his men search for his enemy; soon, they confront each other face-to-face, but the beech tree around which they have moved...

"Possession," "pride," and "greed" are all good single words that sum up the theme of "The Interlopers." Pride becomes possibly the best summation term, as it has a long literary tradition as the...

Faced with possible death, Ulrich von Gradwitz decides to no longer hold onto his animus. Instead of this enmity toward Georg Znaeym, who is pinioned beside him by the fallen tree's branches,...

“The Interlopers” by Saki is often taught in schools because it is such a striking example of plot twist--the main characters, bent on killing each other for so long, come to an agreement to end...

Saki's short story "The Interlopers" has a tragic, poignant ending as Georg and Ulrich helplessly await their brutal deaths as a pack of wolves runs towards them. In the story, Georg Znaeym and...

Before their surprising reconciliation, Ulrich and Georg make one main threat to each other whilst they are trapped underneath the tree that has effectively prevented them from killing each other...

Ulrich's wish is to meet Georg in a deserted spot in the forest and end Georg's life. Half of his wish comes true, as he does indeed meet Georg "man to man" and "face to face." He does not kill...

There are, indeed, protagonists and antagonists in Saki's "The Interlopers," although these roles change during the narrative. In the exposition and rising action of the plot of "The Interlopers,"...

One adjective that can certainly be applied to Saki's short story "The Interlopers" is ironic. In Saki's story, two antagonists who would gladly preside over each other's deaths arrive at a state...

The narrator describes the wind as "whistling and skirling," comparing it, via metaphor, to the bagpipes. The action of skirling is most typically ascribed to this instrument. Further, the...

One message that Saki may be sending to the reader about Mother Nature is that she is opportunistic, and she can override any decisions that man can make just on her whims. When Ulrich Gradwitz...

In the story "The Interlopers," in addition to the unexpected appearance of the wolves is the surprise to the reader that he or she is surprised for the second time. That is, "the fierce shriek of...

The change in the men's relationship is primarily due to Ulrich's generous overtures to his archenemy, Georg. After being pinned down by the beech tree, the men remain stubborn, despite their...

The main external conflict is the long-running feud between the Znaeym and von Gradwitz families. They've been at each other's throats for years, and all because of a remote patch of forest. This...

Georg and Ulrich are similar in that both men have participated in a generational feud for much of their lifetime. As the other educator mentioned, both men are also stubborn, proud, and strong....

This is a great question. I sympathize with Gerog more than I sympathize with Ulrich. From the beginning of the story, in my opinion, the reader sees Georg in a better light. First, though it is...

The short answer to your question can be found by reading the very first sentence in the story: “In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Karpathians, a man stood one...

There are at least two main messages being delivered to readers in “The Interlopers.” First, the author is trying to tell us that it is important to let go of our grievances before it is too late....

Interestingly, this story only contains two characters, and both are so similar in terms of their traits that they would be hard to distinguish from each other. The only thing that seems to...