A Comparison Of 'The InterlopersAndMending Wall'

In Saki’s short story, “The Interlopers”, he used the climax and falling action to impact the theme that if you act like animals, stalking each other and wanting each other dead, then you will be treated that way by nature. According to the story, Ulrich and Georg feud over who owns a part of the forest but, in the end, their reconciliation doesn’t matter to a pack of hungry wolves. The highest point of action and emotion in the story is when the two men decide to end their feud and start working together, therefore this would be the climax of the story.

In life, many people have parts that they let people see of them, and other parts that they keep hidden. Many times, we build these walls to shut people out so people can never really see what is going on inside. These “walls” keep many of one’s deepest secrets hidden. In the poem, The Mending Wall, by Robert Frost, shows a mindset of two neighbors who continue to adjust and mend their wall between each other. This idea of confinement is seen throughout the poem to show that the neighbor is trying to protect themselves. This creates speculation upon the speaker of what exactly are they trying to hide. One might see this poem as meaning a physical barrier, but this is more of an emotional “wall” or barrier that this poem creates. In the poem,

Frost’s various speaking tones can be shown in his well-known poem “Mending Wall.” Throughout the poem the speaker’s voice is open and relaxed, yet, inward and musing. It helps welcome the reader and at the time entices the reader into a riddle which becomes essential to the poem’s meaning. The speaker’s eventual speculation about what might not “love a wall” becomes a description of the struggle of wall-mending and begins to wonder why he and his neighbor have met to carry out the task in the first place. The speaker’s range of tone throughout the poem varies from seriousness to fantasy to glee.

Irony also plays a big part in understanding the concept of the story. Without Saki’s ironic ways readers would not get a clear idea of what the moral is after reading the novella. As To begin, Georg and Ulrich are fighting over land, which in the outcome is the cause of their death. In the beginning they had the intentions of searching across the useless spurs in hopes of gunning down a human rival. All along the only foe that they truly had was within the nature that was surrounding them. Saki ended the story with one word; “wolves.” It is not directly stated if Georg and Ulrich were eaten by the beasts, but that one word creates a mysterious vibe that makes the reader wonder if either of their crew ever made it in time to help them in time to fight

To begin with, the two known families known as the Znaeym and the von Gradwitz have had a seemingly endless dispute on the rights to the land which is called man versus man. According to the passage it states,” The neighbor feud had grown into a personal one since Ulrich had come to be head of his family; if there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to, it was Georg Znaeym, the inheritor of the quarrel and the tireless game snatcher and raider of the disputed border forest.”(Saki 1). To clarify the quote, it stated that the rivalry between the two families have escalated due to Ulrich representing his family name and honour. In addition to the quote, it shows Ulrichs manifest of despise towards George Znaeym who is currently representing his family, and believes George is nothing but a petty thief whose upholding the inevitable end for

Georg and Ulrich had found themselves in a big forest tabulating if there was an intruder. Georg had just found his enemy Ulrich. They start out to threaten themselves for who was going to die first. Outrageously, they started to contend with anger. While battling, a tree branch had suddenly snapped and drop on Ulrich and Georg. They both got snotty, and couldn’t get out. Georg legs got paralyzed by this enormous tree branch and Ulrich had his knee cracked. Anyways, they remained discussing about their family’s argument. While trapped by the tree branch, Georg and Ulrich kept chatting about who was going to croak first. They remained hours anguishing from their grievances and the monstrous conditions.

In his poem 'Mending Wall', Robert Frost presents to us the thoughts of barriers linking people, communication, friendship and the sense of security people gain from barriers. His messages are conveyed using poetic techniques such as imagery, structure and humor, revealing a complex side of the poem as well as achieving an overall light-hearted effect. Robert Frost has cleverly intertwined both a literal and metaphoric meaning into the poem, using the mending of a tangible wall as a symbolic representation of the barriers that separate the neighbors in their friendship.

In “Mending Wall”, two neighbors are ironically united by the traditional rebuilding of the wall between them. A wall symbolizes boundaries, orders, and separation. Or does it? One of the two neighbors doesn’t seem to think so. “Good fences make good neighbors” is his motto. (Line 26) The neighbor doesn’t see how ironic it is that the wall is a meeting spot. He uses the wall as an excuse to talk with his neighbor, because he is not very open or conversational. The situational irony ostended by Robert Frost is that the wall between the two clashing neighbors is supposed to separate them. However, each year, when they meet to “walk the line”, the wall serves as a meeting spot for the two to catch up. (Line 12) Dividing, but unifying, Frost uses the wall to symbolize unity amongst clashing people. Without the situational irony of repairing the wall, the two incompatible neighbors would unlikely be able to unite.

Ulrich states, “Neighbour, if you will help me bury the old quarrel, I will ask you to be my friend,” (Saki 4). Each family has its own drive, each family is willing to kill, one family breaks, both drives are destroyed. The one family that breaks first is not willing to kill, destroying the other families will to fight. This is because if one family does not want to fight, what is the point in fighting to the death? The original outcome does not come true due to the fact that one narrator changed and started communicating.

Robert Frost's "The Mending Wall" is a comment on the nature of our society. In this poem, Frost examines the way in which we interact with one another and how we function as a whole. For Frost, the world is often one of isolation. Man has difficulty communicating and relating to one another. As a result, we have a tendency to shut ourselves off from others. In the absence of effective communication, we play the foolish game of avoiding any meaningful contact with others in order to gain privacy.

Death and damnation to you Ulrich von Gradwitz.”’ (Saki 85). Ulrich fires back with ‘“ Same to you, Georg Znaeym, forest thief, game snatcher.”’ (Saki 85). This proves that the men will die, and they can only hope by the other and his men. Although, the forest is so big, there is a chance the troops will never discover the men or the enemy will kill his men. This leaves them in nature, to suffer and die. On page 84, the text states that “he could not move from his present position till someone came to release him.” (Saki 84). The men were not getting free, and if no one ever found them, animals or a painful death, would. Lastly, the men could work together to not only to escape but to make life better for both families and the ones to come. After waiting in intense pain with not a hint of help on it way, Ulrich knew the would never survive the predicament if they didn’t work together. On page 86,

A famous quote by Gianni Versace, the founder of one of the most successful fashion companies in the world, “Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.” A quote that deeply connects to The Interlopers by Saki and Mending Wall by Frost. In The Interlopers, two guys Ulrich and Georg have quarreled since birth. This is because their grandparents argued over who the forest belonged to. They went to court and it was settled to Ulrich’s grandpa the argument continued to go on. In Mending Wall, two neighbors plan a day every year to mend their fence because of the winter ruining portions. The speaker’s neighbor’s father had always told him good fences make good neighbors. Through Saki and Frost’s development of

Robert Frost had a fascination towards loneliness and isolation and thus expressed these ideas in his poems through metaphors. The majority of the characters in Frost’s poems are isolated in one way or another. In some poems, such as “Acquainted with the Night” and “Mending Wall,” the speakers are lonely and isolated from their societies. On other occasions, Frost suggests that isolation can be avoided by interaction with other members of society, for example in “The Tuft of Flowers,” where the poem changes from a speaker all alone, to realizing that people are all connected in some way or another. In Robert Frost’s poems “Acquainted with the Night,” “Mending Wall,” and “The Tuft of Flowers,” the themes insinuate the idea of loneliness

Another reason why they are pushing me and always sharing details and news with me about the real world is because, they do not want me to make the same mistake they did while growing up. That is why I listen to them and always do as I’m told. My parents taught me a lot these 18 years. I have learned to

However, when the responders’ delves deeper into the poem, it is clear that at a allegorical level the wall is a metaphor representing the barrier that exists in the neighbours’ friendship. The first eleven lines of the poem if rife with imagery that describes the dilapidation of the wall. The first line of the poem emphasises that “something” exists that “doesn’t love a wall”. This personification makes the “something” seem human-like. The use of words such as “spills” and “makes gaps” convey an image of animate actions and create a vivid impression of the degradation of the wall. Nature, presented in the form of cold weather, frost and the activities of creatures, also seeks to destroy the wall. The idea that walls are unnatural and therefore nature abhors walls is portrayed in the phrase “makes gaps even two can pass abreast”, which metaphorically indicates that nature desires for man to walk side by side with no barrier between them. When the two meet to fix the wall, it is a metaphor that could be interpreted as the two repairing their friendship as “To each the boulders have fallen to each” which shows that faults in their relationship lie on behalf of them both. While they are mending the wall, a light-hearted tone is established. This is shown through the inclusion of the metaphor “spring is mischief in me” which shows the neighbours having fun together in repairing the wall,