The Interlopers Vs. Two Friends

Both of these stories include in their plots, surprising events that alter the course of the plot. There are a couple of surprises in the “Interlopers.” One of these

To start, the stories suggest that morals influenced by your surroundings do not always have a full affect on you. In other words, people are always entitled to their own opinion. In The Interlopers, the families and people that each man was raised by influences

tougher than each other. In the beginning the narrator tells his friends he is going on a camping trip to earn his badge and the friends said they will go to. Soon one of the friends gets taken to the next subway station without his friends. so he's there alone very scared. In the end, the friends admit that they hate being outdoors and roughing it and they all just want to go home. This story shows that friendships can mean rivalries.

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 two short stories share one similar theme, and contrast in others. The theme these two stories can compare is how the women, Mrs. Mallard and Clair feel about their loved ones and the relationship problems they face. The unsteady relationship becomes apparent when Mrs. Mallard expresses that she feels a sense of freedom when she hears of her husband’s death, which is odd for any marriage unless there is a sense of unhappiness within the relationship. Learning Mrs. Mallard feels free after her husband’s death makes the reader believe she was in an unhealthy

Good friendships make life easier. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, is about two men, George and Lennie, who go on various journeys in order to get a job. Although George would consider Lennie to be his closest friend, he ultimately ends up shooting and killing Lennie. George did this, not out of hatred, but rather out of protection. A good friend will always want what is best for one another. Steinbeck uses his protagonists’ friendship in order to show that true friendship can help make any of life’s hardships less difficult.

Q1- Compare the ways in which the authors of both texts explore the themes of friendship and responsibility.

In the short story,“The Interlopers,” by Saki, the main characters’ relationship changes drastically over time. In the story, two families are torn apart over a feud deciding who got to have a particular piece of land, a forest, when the owner passed away. To end the overdue dispute, two generations later two grown men from each of the families, Ulrich and Georg, go into the forest to fight to the death, until they both get trapped underneath a tree; there the two men learn to forgive one another families a little too late as a pack of wolves overhear their commotion. At the beginning of the story, Ulrich is full of hatred toward Georg, but as their sitting together stuck underneath the tree Ulrich says,” If my men are the first to come, you

while the first story related to only a slim few. Although these stories related to one another, they did not reach out to the same audience. There are only a few readers who can relate to both at the same time.

The protagonists of both texts rely on the power of companionship to overcome obstacles in order achieve their goals and dreams and similarly, when faced with their dream alone, they are

The short story “The Interlopers” by Saki demonstrates the ironic aura of man vs. nature, and man vs. man. Hector Hugh Munro, pen named Saki, was one of the most popular short story writers during the pre-World War I British literature era. He wrote many stories and is often referred to as a highly under rated author for British literature. His war experiences were apparent in the novellas that he wrote, and often gave readers a gloomy, disturbed feeling. Other stories by Saki include: “Gabriel-Ernest”, “The Toys of Peace”, and “The Storyteller”. These short stories specifically illustrate horror, and the advantage of living life outside of the box. The three predominant literary techniques in Saki’s “The Interlopers”

In the final analysis, characters from both stories carried with them a dream that inevitably led them to irrational thinking and an ultimate downfall. In simple

"They understood each other perfectly". (440) Next, the deaths of the characters in each story also differed. In "The Interlopers", the death of the characters was considered as an act of nature; however the death of the two men in "Two Friends" could be considered an act of

In the stories, “The Interlopers” and “The Two Friends” there is many ways that these gentlemen are similar and there is many ways they are different. In the story, “The Interlopers” it took a tree falling on them before they would even start talking to each other. In the story, “The Two Friends” their friendship never changed even after they got captured by the Germans. “The Interlopers” and “Two Friends” have similar messages about life and death, but their characters differ in important respects.

To illustrate, the first similarity between the two stories the reader can look at the actions of both The Misfit in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and the married couple in “A Very Old Man with Enormous