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The Interlopers

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There exist two short stories that you would likely enjoy reading. The Interlopers is a story written by Saki. The protagonist of the story is Ulrich von Gradwitz and the antagonist of the story is Georg Znaeym. Kate Chopin wrote the other story: The Story of an Hour. The protagonist of The Story of an Hour is Mrs. Mallard and the antagonist is Josephine. All stories have a message known as the theme of the story. Such themes are valuable to find out because they can be helpful to us. However, attempting to get the theme of stories requires that we are to deduce conclusions about the story. But, if one wants to deduce conclusions about the story or some stories, that person should comprehensively analyze the plot. One way of doing so is analyzing …show more content…

The story states, "In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians..." (Saki 3). This substantiates the fact that the story occurs in Eastern Europe. The story also occurs in the woods, during a winter night. In the exposition, there is also foreshadowing when the story said that "...as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other..." (Saki 4). This happened later in the story, but to both characters. In contrast, The Story of an Hour does not even state in which part of the world the story occurs in. There are other aspects of the exposition of The Story of an Hour that are in contrast to The Interlopers. For example, the Story of an Hour occurs indoors, during spring and during the day. It does not directly state it occurred during the day, but we do know that if it occurred during the night then the sky would not be blue. However, the story overtly states this: "There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window." (Chopin). However, the exposition of The Story of an Hour also has foreshadowing in is. According to the story, “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.” (Chopin). The quote foreshadows the death of Mrs. …show more content…

The inciting moment of The Interlopers is when the men come across each other. The rising action quickly escalates when they take out their guns and threaten each other. However, the climax is boughs fall on the men. During the falling action, the men start threatening each other by saying the men will rescue one man and kill the other. However, the men realize the fight over land is silly, so they stop fighting and become friends. This event resolves the conflict. However, there is still falling action because they still fight against nature and afterwards, they noticed moving objects in the distance. That would be the final moment of suspense. In The Story of an Hour, the inciting moment is when Mrs. Mallard stopped mourning her husband and began to think about the benefits of her husbands supposed death. There is not that much suspense in the rising action of The Story of an Hour, but there more suspense in The Interlopers. The conflict between Josephine and Mrs. Mallard is when Josephine begged Mrs. Mallard to stop or else she will make herself “ill” (Chopin). The suspense of the rising action in The Story of an Hour is sparce compared to the suspense in the rising action of The Interlopers. The climax of The Story of an Hour is when Mrs. Mallard and Josephine begin to fall down the stairs. Unlike The Interlopers, the climax of The Story of an Hour occurs near the end. The falling action is the set of events

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