The Trout Short Story

How did you feel when you first realized that a fairy tale or story was not real? Have you ever thought about what you want to accomplish in your life? These two short stories have different characters with disparate situations in separate settings. Despite such contrasting elements, both do a good job convincing readers to think about how to live in a deep way about things they would not have been able to understand if they hadn’t read the story. The authors do this by employing very similar writing strategies to cause readers to care about something they never thought was important. There are many ways to live, yet changing the way you think about life can be a long and difficult process, and it is difficult to grasp such ideas without experiencing

“The Trout,” a short story written by Sean O’Faolain, shows how hard it can be to realize that nobody knows everything. Although there are many people who may be knowledgeable, nobody can explain everything because there are always; however, that is not a problem. Realizing this, Julia has much anxiety, much more than most people have when realizing this, and she actually panics a lot about what she doesn’t know. The message sent in “The Interlopers,” a story written by Saki, is one about life and death. It shows that for many, only when thinking one’s own death is soon does one realize he never did what he really wanted to do in life, that he never became the person he wanted to be, and that he should prioritize goals he thought he could put off until

In “The Interlopers,” the narrator repeatedly mentions the length of the family feud. The feud began long before this encounter, as a lawsuit, the narrator explained. The narrator then goes on to say that some portion of the land was taken from the other family and given to Ulrich’s family because of illegal possession. The other family, mad at the verdict, had repeatedly poached on Ulrich’s family’s land, “...long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations.” Later, it is mentioned that, “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; as boys they had thirsted for one another's blood, as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other…” The men were mad and wanted justice by harming each other for a history of family conflicts that started with a disagreement over who owned what that took place between relatives generations before the two men had their interaction in the woods. They realized they should have forgiven each other long ago and lived as good neighbors and friends but only right before they