The Interlopers Forest Setting

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.

The short story, “The Interlopers” by Saki, tells of Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym, Two hunters who were destined to be enemies since `before they were born. Three generations ago, the Gradwitz family won a strip of precipitous woodland in a lawsuit against their neighbors, the Znaeym family. The Znaeym’s, in return, have held a grudge ever since. On a stormy winter night, Ulrich and his foresters are out on the land keeping watch for thieves, when Ulrich comes face to face with Georg. Before either man has time to move, a tree comes crashing down, both injuring and trapping them. At first both Ulrich and Georg claim that their men will be the first to find them and when they do, the other will die. But as more time passes, both find their hatred for each other decreasing and they decide to become friends. Sadly, after this miraculous event, both Ulrich and Georg are killed by wolves. Throughout the story, Saki uses irony, foreshadowing, and characterization to hold the reader’s interest.

The diction in the excerpt is an essential component to the dramatization of the plot’s central incident. Jewett uses rich language to intensify the simple nature of the main character Sylvia’s journey up a “great pine-tree.” For example, in describing the tree, the narrator uses personification as he mentions the “huge tree asleep yet in the paling moonlight.” The use of personification harkens back to those universal moments in childhood in which everything alive had human feelings, and creates an emotional attachment between the reader and the tree. Jewett also uses other figurative language, like similes, to relate the grandeur of the tree to the audience. She writes, “It [the tree] was like a great main-mast to the voyaging earth…” In comparing the tree to the great mast of a ship, the author invokes feelings of awe at its size.

The forest opens up a whole new world. The “path strangled onward into the mystery of the primeval forest” (172). The word mystery is used to show the different sides that the forest can bring out in a character. For some the forest may be a place of sinister thoughts and wrong doing but for others it’s a place to express their freedom. Mister Hibbins is a witch and does her practices in the forest. One day, as Hester

In A Separate Peace, There are connections to the Vietnam War that happened during the making of this novel. This book has symbolism in it that connects to how America was during the Vietnam War. The Symbolism in A Separate Peace, represents what happened and what it was like during the Vietnam War. It demonstrates this representation in the school, outside and park areas, and the characters in the book specifically Finny.

The Forest of Gradwitz had many trees in it. The tree is a symbol of greed and hate. This section of the forest is what started the feud between the two families. The tree fell on Ulrich and Georg, they were trapped very close to one another. Them being trapped under the tree is what made them realize how foolish they had been. They made up and became friends that night, stuck under the tree. The tree then stood for courage and

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

“They’re Soviet.” said Ulrich, Georg replys, “Out here in these lands?” Ulrich readies his rifle, expecting a fight. The russians then yell words that Ulrich and Georg couldn’t understand. “Are they going to free us?” Georg asked. “They seem to want to.” replied Ulrich. The russian men begin to push against the tree, rolling it off them and help them up. After they help the two, the russian men kick them back onto the ground, holding them at gunpoint. Finally, the two men’s soldiers appear from both ends of the forest and take aim at each side and the russians. The russians, surprised by the other’s approach, aim at both sides and position themselves behind one another. The two yell to their men not to shoot each other, but at the russian men. The russians take Ulrich and Georg and aim at the two, threatening to shoot them if they don’t drop their weapons. Ulrichs signs to his men to drop the weapons but Georg denies. The russian men then take aim at Georg’s men and fire at them, each of his soldiers dropping one by one. Georg then swings his fist at one of the russian men but is shot by another, Ulrich witnessing

A novel’s setting contributes to the atmosphere of a story in a myriad of ways. Setting provides insight of a character’s point of view, the culture of a specific time, and transports the reader to another world. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Shelley describes breathtaking scenes of nature in immense detail. Her descriptions of the Alps and the destroyed tree relate to the pursuit of knowledge, power and the idea of “playing God”, by providing places of contemplation and comparison for a reader to ponder on these issues.

While patrolling this strip of woodland one dark and stormy night, Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym found themselves face to face, only to have a heavy beech tree fall on them, trapping them both, leaving no limbs free to fire a gun for help or to dispatch the other, permanently.

Grenville portrays how secrecy and distrust are an issue among differing people groups through the figurative language used to describe the landscapes and behaviours of various characters. One example is towards the end of the book, when Rooke is looking out into the bay. He sees how the “wide dark flatness” of the water and shore has “retreated into the night”. This darkness is symbolic of the deception and fraudulence that Rooke had been mulling. The abundance of the darkness is used as a comparison to the excess of deception among the British settlers, who were often disguising their true aims and intentions behind sincerity and inclusion. Despite the darkness the moon still shone out over the water like a “wide eye” but was unable to light up the whole foreshore. This demonstrates how even though some secrets may be uncovered there is often more deceit hidden. Grenville further establish distrust through the fear of the description of the trees as “gnarled pink monsters” with “twisted arthritic fingers”. By Rooke also referring to the land as made “according to a different logic from the world” Grenville is portraying the British settlers as viewing NSW as both foreign and terrifying because they no longer understand it therefore creating rift of distrust. The words “gnarled”, “monsters” and “twisted” also depict a fear of the land and all that it might hold because these words hold negative connotations of a horrifying and terrifying appearance or façade.

that the wolves could defend themselves, but nevertheless it is not known if they are going to live, it could be that they die "The idiot chatter" of the man indicates the horrible end that they will suffer.

There were three different conflicts that happened during this story. The first one is person vs person between Ulrich Von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym. They had hated each other for their entire lives and were planning to killing each other in the forest that night. The second conflict, person vs nature, was the storm that they were in. They ended up being stuck under a fallen tree with many injuries that the storm made happen. The third conflict, person vs person, was between themselves and their minds because they had a whole past of pure hatred for one another To think about while they were under the tree next to each other. They ended up overcoming their issues with all the time that they had to think about it with each other and themselves. The conflicts in this story

Social and physical environments are an integral part of a well developed story. The physical environment is a stage for the introduction of characters. The Stage will immerse the characters within a story and give it context. Social environments are defined by external social constraints. These constraints are used to build and define a culture. The social constraints of a culture will place bounds and limits to the actions of it’s members. This paper will briefly discuss the importance of Social and physical environments, within “Paul’s Case “by Willa Cather and “Death by Landscape” by Margret Atwood

Nathaniel Hawthorne deliberately makes the low-spirited forest the venue of the gathering between Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale to, “secure themselves from the observation of any casual passenger,” (Hawthorne). The forest symbolizes freedom and seclusion; it’s a place where people are not judged and can be their true self. The