Interloper I remember laying in a pool of blood seconds after a truck hit me when I was driving to my house. Cold… I never felt so cold and numb in my life as the life I had left was slowly draining away. My vision began fading, as all the colors of the beautiful world I once saw slowly faded to monochrome. Strangely, I thought I was dead, yet time seemed as it had just stopped. No… it did. Suddenly, right in front of me, a red abyss appeared and a pale white woman in white stepped out. A static-like noise became more prominent in my head, however it was feint. At distance she looked lovely at glance, then I realized something...she was faceless and transparent. There was nothing to describe the feeling I had, it was absolutely pure terror. …show more content…
Sometimes, it feels like the life I once had simply disappeared, I can no longer tell what is real or not. I woke up looking at my alarm clock as it read three a.m in the morning inside my dark room while a cold breeze blew through my window. Usually, the suburban neighborhood I live in has several cars passing by a couple hours, yet it was dead silent. Perhaps a little too quiet I thought, so I walked towards my window and looked outside and saw the full moon It was rather abnormal one could say as I thought to myself, and I do not recall opening my window either. Out of nowhere, I heard several knocks coming from the door. “Really, at this time?”, I thought to myself, “I’ll get my handgun just in case”. As I walked to my gun safe down the hall the knocks continued, but halfway I began to realize they weren’t coming from the door. It was from the mirror in the hallway. “Is this real or in my mind?”, I thought to myself . I then walked to the door …show more content…
To make it worse, the old lights were flickering too. As I passed by the window near my door, my peripheral vision caught a ghastly white figure, a faceless transparent pale woman, who seemed like she was flickering. It was almost as her physical presence was there and at the same time not there. This feeling, it is so familiar yet so cold...Perhaps I was hallucinating, after all, I only began seeing bizarre things every since my brain injury. I mean no one could be hearing a television static-like noise near them all the time when the television is not even on, right? So I went to my bathroom instead and took my prescribed pills, maybe I overdosed a bit maybe I didn’t and went back to my room. I climbed back to my bed. As I laid down, the last thing I saw was my alarm clock flashing 3:30 before she pushed her long rotting nails through my chest while her other hand was muffling my mouth. The sharp pain felt as like an eternity, each agonizing second felt like a minute and each minute felt like an hour and so forth.Why didn’t she just slit my throat instead? Why didn’t she just stab my head?! Why is she doing this to me?! What a cruel fate I have, I don’t even know if this is real or not, but for sure the pain is. My vision began to fade to red as I watched her laugh
I was going through a rough time in my life, a time where I felt weak and was not understood by anyone around me. I couldn't seem to wrap my head around everything, my loneliness, my depression, and many other things. It was a time where I was vulnerable, for the sake of the story. I never did a lot of talking, this caused some weird things to happen to me, and they didn't feel normal. I saw things at night, things that nobody should ever have to see. I saw the dark side of humankind, all of the hate, the lies, it all became clear. Night after night, I saw these things, and it never made sense to me, why I was seeing
The interlopers is a story where 2 main characters fight over a family feud and they eventually come to terms with each other. They hated each other since they were little children. When both men met each other in the woods a thunder struck a tree near them and trap them both. One of the men realized it was a waste of time and energy trying to fight with the other man and tried to make friends with him. They come to a agreement to be friends and not enemies and wait for their men to come and save them. As they wait for one of their groups of men to save them they see in the distance wolves are heading towards
The “interlopers” is a brief story between two families, an argument between two males for three generations. A devastation between Ulrich and Georg, two strong enemies. This ponderous feud has been unpredictable and had brought aftermaths including punches and chaos. The other conflict is the nature of the story, severe raw weather. The realism is that both men, were the intruders of the forest in the story.
“Who are they?” Asked Georg quickly, straining his eyes to see what the other gladly would not have seen. “Wolves.”
Why do we engage in war? Is there ever a significant outcome?Just like the Korean War, the story Interlopers by Saki, share similar themes and outcomes. In the Interlopers, the author Saki conveys a theme of don’t waste your life on engaging in hatred cause death will follow, using the literary techniques of situational irony, imagery, and foreshadowing.
“ ...For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” (James 4:14) Words of truth from the book of truth. We have no idea how long our lives will be on this earth. This concept is brought to light even more in the two short stories we will be discussing, “The Story of an Hour” and “The Interlopers”. These two stories share some similarities and some differences that we will be looking at. These two stories show us a very important concept… “The Story of an Hour” and “The Interlopers” are perfect examples of how the expected does not always happen.
Many people desire to get something, and they fight each other to win their desire. They consider each other their enemies and do whatever it takes to be better than one another. When the enemies need help for same problem, they unite themselves to solve the problem. The short story “The Interlopers” by Saki is about unification and reveals how enemies become allies in harsh situations.
By: Lucas Armstrong Ulrich gave his best effort to grab his gun. After struggling for a few seconds he finally hooks the edge of the firearm onto the button of his leather jacket.
"Who are they?" asked Georg quickly, straining his eyes to see what the other would gladly not have seen.
Months on end I tried to rid the voices from the head, but my efforts were in vain. I snapped. Visions of gruesome murders flew in and out of my head. My memories were like a tangled ball of yarn. The muscles within me twitched uncontrollably; I let out a blood-curdling scream that echoed throughout the ominous night. The pain felt like something was trying to take over my body
The short story “The Interlopers” by Saki, was written in 1919. The story is still read frequently by the community, and is often assigned to be read for high school students. The story has been around for almost one-hundred years old and is still popular, many people wonder why. That question can be answered many ways, one of them being the techniques the writer uses. The author uses foreshadowing, irony, and suspense to keep readers continuing to reading the story.
In The Interlopers the two main characters of the story are fighting over a piece of land. The first character is Ulrich von Gradwitz. The second character is Georg Znaeym. Both of these men hate each other because the other wants the land that von Gradwitz owns. As they were fighting thunder struck a tree and it fell right on them and they were stuck together. In the end they both ended up as friends and were going to die together. Also in the end wolves
Darkness... Darkness is all I see right now I somehow know I 'm not dead but not alive either I 'm in between both like a coma not dead nor alive just sleeping. I look around trying to find away out, "Hello?" I ask but nothing happens I start walking around with no direction not knowing if I 'm going round and round I 'm not scared I actually feel relaxed I don 't know why. "Hello?" I ask again, this time something appears in front of me it 's like a movie screen I stare at it waiting for something to happen. A few seconds later something starts playing; at first it was blurry but it slowly focused, there 's a women and her two children I stare closely at them they look familiar but who are they; I stared closely at them my eyes widen, It was mom, Xavier and me before mom died and Xavier disappeared. We look so happy together swinging on the swing and laughing blowing some bubble here and there the blue and sky and green grass. I remember this day it was my birthday, I was turning 6 that day, and we went to the park together everything was just perfect. I smiled at the memory seeing my moms face hearing her laughter her voice once more. I feel the need of reaching out and hugging her at least one last time but I don 't, and my brother just two years older than me taking care of me making sure I was ok catching me at the end of the slide and kissing my forehead I wish I could hug them both and never let them go. I couldn 't help it no more I just
Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. The noise echoed through the apartment until I had eventually made it down to the bottom floor, then, to the kitchen. Once at the kitchen, I looked around for a broken plate, odd enough, I couldn’t find one; I almost gave up until I saw something weird, the pantry was shaking, it was rumbling as if there was some sort of earthquake. I moved towards it, each step softer and slower than the previous. I feared that as soon as I opened the door, a man with a gun would come out and shoot; I could imagine it, but my curiosity got the better of me as I opened the door, as soon as I did however, I was greeted with a bright flash of light. I averted my eyes and covered my face with my hands, the light was too bright as it bled through my eye sockets, I was still able to see. It was almost as if I was looking into the sun. That was until the light had simply vanished. Once I felt as if I was safe, I opened my eyes again, to my surprise, I had jerked right out of bed, and I had heard the sound of plates being smashed to the ground once again. Immediately perceptive of my surroundings, yet surprised and confused at the same time, I glanced at my analog clock,
Somewhere I heard someone talking. And some one crying. Another moan. My head hurt. I felt like I was going mad. I looked out the window of the car, but I could not see more than a few feet. I closed my eyes. I looked over and saw everyone I loved seriously injured. People saw us flip over, why is there no one here. I needed to get help. I found a pair of cracked sunglasses and I put them on. Saying goodbye to my friends I left the car. I heard crying, but from where. I looked up. It was night and there was a light at the top of the hill. Help had come. I was a rope descending from the rail seperating New Hampshire from Main. I grabbed the rope, and it stung like fire. In the back of my mind I heard someone yell. The light from the street was fading away.