Elements of the story
The Interlopers
The Interlopers
What was the setting of "The Interlopers"?
(location of the story)
a forest in the mountains
(Extra 50 points if you can name the mountain range)
The first character readers are introduced to who is hunting for a human enemy?
Who is Ulrich von Gradwitz?
Describe irony.
when something that is expected doesn't happen
or when the reader expects one thing and the opposite thing happens
The freshman was seen as an INTERLOPER at the party for sophomores.
a person (or something) who becomes involved where he or she does not belong.
What was Ulrich doing in the woods at the beginning of the story?
hunting for Georg
What is the main conflict in "The Interlopers?"
Ulrich von Gradwitz's neighbor and enemy
Who is Georg Znaeymn?
When the 2 men meet in the forest, with nobody else around, ready to kill each other, what happens that is ironic?
instead of one of them killing or hurting the other, the beech tree does the harm
trapped
What lead to the two main characters of the story being in the forest on the night of the story's setting?
Each was hoping to catch the other in what they thought was poaching and trespassing - they wanted to kill each other to end the feud.
How were the 2 men trapped together in "The Interlopers"?
a tree fell on them during a storm
The neighboring families have been fighting over this because of a famous lawsuit and several poaching incidents.
land boundary (who owns the land)
What does Ulrich say to Georg that is NOT what the reader expects?
He asks if they can drop the fighting and become friends.
an expression of sympathy
What alerted Ulrich to the possibility that someone was in the forest near him?
(What was going on around him that gave him a clue?)
animals were up and moving at night (deer) even though they should have been bedded down due to the storm.
What was offered to be shared between the 2 men as they were trapped together? (Be specific!)
Wine (in a flask)
This happens as the two enemies come face-to-face with rifles in each hand
"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."
Name one ironic thing that is in the ending.
wolves do the killing (likely) instead of men
or
right when they decide to end fighting and prevent one from killing the other, they are both killed (likely) by wolves
Is a short story a type of FICTION or NONFICTION?
fiction
What was the reason Georg did not want to share a drink with Ulrich?
Georg claimed that he would never share a drink with an enemy.
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?
Name another ironic thing in the story's end.
wolves do the killing (likely) instead of men
or
right when they decide to end fighting and prevent one from killing the other, they are both killed (likely) by wolves
There were several types of CONFLICT in the story "The Interlopers."
a struggle between 2 opposing forces