Saki The Interlopers Analysis

when she picks him up from the police. How does this quote show us how she

“Who are they?” Asked Georg quickly, straining his eyes to see what the other gladly would not have seen. “Wolves.”

“The Interlopers” by Saki, is a story mixed with man vs. man, man vs. nature, and man vs. self, conflict. The resolution is a very surprising twisted fate however. In the beginning we learn of the three generation long quarrel between the Gradwitz’s and the Znaeym’s. “A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather” (152). The boys grow up hating each other and wishing each other misfortune, and even death upon each other. “as boys they had thirsted for one another's blood, as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other” (152). On that night both of the men separate from their groups in search of each other. After a few minutes of searching they find each other. But as fate may have it, nature strikes both men. Suddenly the harsh

"There is no such thing as love anymore, / the kind that is so strong / that you kind of feel it in your bones. / you know we used to feel that emotion / when we looked into the faces of our mother, / father, sisters, brothers, family and friends...This novel is dedicated to the era in which we live. / The era in which love, loyalty, truth, honor, / and respect died. / Where humility and appreciation are nonexistent. / Where families are divided and God reviled, / The era. / The Coldest Winter Ever."

This quote creates a effect of betrayed and disbelieve and a bit afraid because the example of the son betraying the father, who were so close and they survive together through the worst and then almost the end of the terror they leave the person behind which cause the people to watch there back and trust no one.

"Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I'm going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world" (143).

The Story of an Hour and The Interlopers are both interesting stories about death. Both stories contain the subject of death but The Interlopers is suspenseful while The Story of an Hour is just sad. Even though The Story of an Hour and The Interlopers are written on two different topics they are still similar, but they both have their differences. In the story The Interlopers death is an event that no one wants or expects to happen. In the story of an hour death is a surprise but it is not unnatural.

This is the modern, everyday life of many unfortunate people. For People of all ages. You can hear on the news about wives and children and even husbands who were killed in acts of rage and domestic violence. Even though I am unable to relate to this certain passage, I was still touched and I actually felt sympathy for these fictitious characters.

At last, diction tells a lot in the story. The way the author uses his words. For example, when the author says, “they had never lived as a man and a wife” it showed that they loved each other so much that marriage was not the thing that held them together. They did not have to be married in order to stay with one another. It was their true love that they had for each

As the story quotes, " 'Mother, what are you doing?' he asked. 'Do not worry, my son,' she answered gently. 'I am just marking the was so you will not get lost returning to the village.' " This quote generally means that the mother and son are very close and they both share a very detailed relationship. The feelings the story bring to the characters is showing how much the characters love and care for each other. But some others characters show different emotions like the young lord, he was very mean and treated most people with no respect. An example would be when the story quotes, " 'Fools!' the lord cried angrily. 'What good is your wisdom if you cannot help me now?' ". This quote shows how the young lord did not have confidence in his wise

Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym have a life long rivalry, they even pray misfortune upon one another. When Ulrich snuck away to find Georg and kill him, his demeanor was not fulfilled at all. In fact the story took a turn for the worst, yet the best. They had guns pointed ready to aim and a tree fell on them. They woke stuck next to each other trapped under the tree cursing each

Interestingly, this scene powerfully portrays the overarching theme of the book by illustrating what can happen when we compromise our perspectives.

From this quote the reader can tell the wife is unhappy in her marriage. Foreshadowing is used here as well because the reader knows her husband is going to die soon by this description given of him. There is a different tone though in the “Hills like White Elephants”.

"Near the same tree two more bundles of acute angles sat with their legs drawn up. One, with his chin propped on his knees stared at nothing, in an intolerable and appalling manner... others were scattered about in every pose of contorted collapse, as in some picture of massacre or pestilence."

Saki has displayed a theme of wasting your life on engaging in hatred because death will follow, by using the technique of irony. This theme comes into notice when the forresters walk out into the open to explore. Ulrich and Georg, the forresters, meet eyes in the middle of the open forest. Then, lighting struck and branches from the trees fall down onto Georg and Ulrich. The hatred turned from each other onto nature. Hoping that the other is dead, Ulrich shouts “I’m caught in my own forest land”, and then their was a moment of silence (Saki 8). Georg was silent because he knew that this situation he got in, is very ironic. They’re on their own land but yet trapped and nearing death all because of this long lasting family feud. Since death is nearing, Georg starts to get into panic mode. He shouts at Ulrich and says, “Death and damnation to you, Ulrich Von Gradwitz”, as they were trapped under the heavy tree branches (Saki 8). Georg didn’t mean that in a bad way. He just wanted to make sure that Ulrich knew that if they did died under those branches, that it would be all his fault for making this a bigger deal than what it