Conflict In The Interlopers

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Saki wrote the story The Interlopers in 1919. It is about two neighbours that are mad at each another for stealing their game (animals) so Ulrich goes out to kill Georg and a tree falls on Ulrich, trapping him and the guys finally talk it over and become friends, when they realize a pack of wolves are coming towards them. One passage is on page one is important to the rest of the story. It is important to the rest of the story because it establishes the setting, introduces the conflict, describes a climatic moment and it works as a whole to show that friendship can solve the biggest or smallest of problems.
In the passage it establishes the setting this is important to the rest of the story because it gives you a sense of where they are and …show more content…

“The neighbour feud had grown into a personal one since Ulrich had came to be the head of the family; if there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym, the inheritor of the quarrel and the tireless game snatcher and raider of the disputed border forest.”(1) If Georg had not stolen from Ulrich he wouldn’t be mad and would not went out to kill him, preventing them from becoming friends.
The passage that was chosen also describes part of a climactic moment and it is important to the story because if their was no climatic event the story would be boring and no one would want to read it. In the passage Saki wrote “...a splitting crash over their heads...a mass of falling beech tree had thundered down on them Ulrich...in a tight tangle of the forked branches, while both legs were pinned beneath the fallen mass.”(1) If that didn’t happen, the guys might have just killed each other and the story would not be as exciting or interesting and they would not solved their problem in a very good

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