Characters/Events
The name of the first character readers are introduced to who is hunting for a human enemy.
Who is Ulrich von Gradwitz?
This is the setting of the story.
What is "the dark forest, Carpathians, winter night, forest of mixed growth" and "narrow strip of precipitous woodland...was the most jealously guarded of all its owner's territorial possessions"?
"Wolves"
This is part of the ____________ in the plot.
What is resolution?
This vocabulary word that means intruders in a place, situation, or activity.
What is interloper?
"Both had now given up the useless struggle to free themselves from the mass of wood that held them down."
Name the conflict type.
What is character vs. nature?
This happens as the two enemies come face-to-face with rifles in each hand. (state two details)
They hesitated because of their "civilized" upbringing. Then, a "fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads, and ere before they could leap aside, a mass of falling tree had thundered down on them".
"So you're not killed, as you ought to be, but you're caught, anyway," he cried; "caught fast. Ho, what a jest, Ulrich von Gradwitz snared in his stolen forest. There's real justice for you!"
This is an example of what?
What is irony? Specifically, situational irony?
"Let's shout for help!"
This is part of the _____________________ in the plot.
What is falling action?
This vocabulary word means great annoyance.
What is exasperation?
"The feud might, perhaps, have died down or been compromised if the personal ill-will of the two men had not stood in the way".
What type of conflict is this?
What is character vs character?
Ulrich von Gradwitz's neighbor and enemy
Who is Georg Znaeym?
"Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy."
The short story element shown here.
What is conflict? Specifically character vs. character.
"Ulrich looked across with something like a throb of pity to where his enemy lay, just keeping the groans of pain and weariness from crossing the lips"
This is part of the _____________ of the plot.
What is rising action?
This vocabulary word means accepted or agreed to.
What is acquiesced?
"But a man who has been brought up under the code of a restraining civilization cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighbor in cold blood without a word spoken"
What type of conflict is this?
What is character vs. society?
The background story to the feud.
The neighboring families have been fighting over the strip of land because of a famous lawsuit and several poaching incidents.
The point of view from which the story is told.
What is Third person omniscient?
"Ulrich von Gradwitz, I will be your friend".
This is the ___________ part of the plot.
What is the climax?
This vocabulary word means showing devotion.
What is pious?
"He looked across with something like a throb of pity to where his enemy lay'.
What type of conflict is this AND who had this conflict?
What is character vs. self? Ulrich had this conflict.
He said, "We have quarreled like devils all of our lives over this stupid strip of forest...I've come to think we've been rather fools."
Who is Ulrich von Gradwitz?
Provide an example of irony that is either verbal or dramatic.
Answers will vary. Need explanation.
In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians, a man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision, and, later, of his rifle."
This is part of the _____________ of the plot.
What is exposition?
This vocabulary word means weakness or weariness.
What is languor?
"Who are they? asked Georg quickly, straining his eyes to see what the other would gladly not have seen. Wolves."
The author uses this conflict to create a message about holding grudges. What could this message be?
People should work out their differences and grudges before they don't have the opportunity to do so.