Preview

Pride In The Interlopers

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
288 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Pride In The Interlopers
This story is set on the eastern edge of the Carpathian Mountains in Romania family feud over a strip of forest has reached fevered pitch between Ulrich Von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym. Ulrich's family had won the lawsuit many years ago that had settled the dispute, and Georg's family had lost. The dispossessed family has never accepted the ruling of the courts and continues to poach on the land. The victorious landowners have continued to punish the interlopers. To be too proud or having too much pride can lead stubbornness, which can destroy friendships and families.
The characters in ‘‘The Interlopers,’’ Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym, have been enemies since birth. Their grandfathers feuded over a piece of forestland. While the courts

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    His story reveals a heroic and honorable tale of a village that rose up in arms against its tyrannical commander. Two lovers who were forced away…

    • 325 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    The backdrop of World War II in A Separate Peace emphasizes the microcosmic war that is occurring in Devon. Military language that is used emphasizes the parallelism of the actual war and Gene’s war throughout the novel. Man’s destructive actions portray man’s inhumanity to man; eradication and killings of the war depict how cruel man can be. Finny’s inability to cope with the cruelty of this world causes him to become oblivious to what’s actually happening. Gene’s constant hatred and envy leads him to loose himself in Finny. He characterizes Finny to have no flaws and believes, “There was no harm in envying your best friend a little” (25). This little envy grew to the extent where Gene had no control of his action and destroyed his best friend’s future.…

    • 994 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In The Interlopers, Georg and Ulrich were enemies because of a land dispute. They met each other when they were both hunting on a stormy winter night, when a tree fell trapping both of them. They decided to bury the hatchet and become friends. It was all for nothing though because wolves came and ate them. An act of nature killed them.…

    • 324 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym both hate each other. Both of there family's have hated each other for generations. They live in a dark forest where Gradwitz patrol's wanting to see his enemy to appear. The only reason why they are hating is because they both want to take part in some piece of land in the forest, but Georg has legal possession of it from the court. Gradwitz comes a pond Georg in the forest where they both hurt each other and gets set in a trap. Both of them talk madly at each other whether there men are going to come and murder one person. But it all ends when they get tried of battling each other over words. They set out to try to make truths with each other. Finally they become friends and try to call out for help. But…

    • 149 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Jurgis And Onas Summary

    • 593 Words
    • 3 Pages

    This is a story of a Lithuanian immigrant name Jurgis Rudkus who came to America with his new bride Ona and their families. Like all immigrants who come to America hoping to like the America dream he moves his family to America to work in a meatpacking company in Chicago. This story tells of the hardships of Jurgis and his family, they encounter a lot of difficulties Starvation and poverty, hard and unsafe working conditions, crooked businessman who took their money, and corrupt politicians who made laws to allow the things that Jurgis went through to happen. And because of all the hardships he and his family go through opened his eyes and accepts the new political and economic revolution of socialism.…

    • 593 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Saki The Interlopers

    • 644 Words
    • 3 Pages

    English 10 Honors Structured Response on Saki’s “The Interlopers” “An eye for an eye will make us all blind” (Ghandi). In Saki’s “The Interlopers,” is written about two men at the turn of the century. His main characters, Ulrich Von Gradwitz, a wealthy landowner with legal rights and Georg Znaeym are perpetuating a vendetta over a worthless strip of land in the European forest land in the East Carpathian Mountains. Ulrich is determined to catch Georg trespassing, and both are motivated to eternalize an irrational dispute that has continued for generations.…

    • 644 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    A war, a battle, or even an argument with a sibling. Conflict is around everywhere and essentially comes about due to our innate calling for a challenge. The Von Gradwitz as well as the Znaeym family experience this first hand as their differences begin to take over. The short story “The Interlopers”, written by Saki, clearly exemplifies how harmful conflict can be. The short story teaches us that it is foolish to prolong or even have conflict but rather to settle the issue with great haste.…

    • 594 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Status Seekers

    • 1178 Words
    • 5 Pages

    1. What does Packard’s The Status Seekers tell us about the United States in the 1950’s? What does it omit?…

    • 1178 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Saki’s novel, “The Interlopers”, analyzes the intricacies of friendship and rivalry. The two men Ulrich and Georg promptly enroll in a family feud whom both were unaware of why. All through the protracted battle, the novel results in both men pinned under a tree exposing with what the author intended to be man vs. man, man vs. nature, and man vs. self conflict. Nevertheless the two men were compelled to reunite, resulting in an appalling ending.…

    • 270 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Myth of Inferiority

    • 739 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Stated in “The Myth of Inferiority” by T. Allen Culpepper, students who have hard lives are justified to having late papers, excessive absences, rewrite opportunities, but never plagiarized work. Throughout the article many examples are stated to support why. Students deal with financial instability, cope with economic hardships, and are always competing with obligations between family, work and school.…

    • 739 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Essay On Dracula

    • 589 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The assembly of miscellaneous excerpts and diary entries revealed the narrative of the attorney’s journey to the isolated castle of the Romanian nobleman in the Eastern European country of Transylvania. The conclusion of property transaction that Harker was supposed to be negotiating with Count Dracula, was quickly forgotten once the count had taken his lawyer prisoner. Picturesque views of the Carpathians, flamboyant indigenous people, erudite and affable Dracula were inspiring him till he thoroughly scrutinized the gist of his appointment and Count Dracula’s preternatural capacities and fiendish intentions. The opening, mingled simultaneously with consternation…

    • 589 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Seven Years in Tibet

    • 1002 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The story is about Heinrich and Peter, two Austrian mountaineers who help each other for survival in the wild lands they go through until they reach Tibet. There, intercultural communication takes place and intercultural differences are clearly seen. This piece of work will briefly point out four topics: beliefs, gestures, protocol and intercultural marriage. They are related to the five scenes of the movie that will be addressed below.…

    • 1002 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    Against Alienation

    • 1718 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Alienation is a being isolated and discriminated by the majority. Society alienates people who seem to be different in a way or another. Alienation also means the separation a person feels from things that naturally belong together. In “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, “Why the M Word Matters to Me” by Andrew Sullivan, and “How It Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston, the authors illustrate the alienation they have experienced at some point of their lives or the alienation a group of people have experienced. Martin Luther King writes about the alienation and discrimination that black people experienced just because of their skin color. Andrew Sullivan expresses how he felt alienated by his own family for being homosexual. Zora Neale Hurston demonstrates the alienation she had felt because of her race. These authors fought that alienation by taking a stand against the widespread beliefs, demanding their basic rights, and questioning people’s morality.…

    • 1718 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Excessive Pride

    • 570 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Dangers of pride and having excessive pride can be harmful. Both the book the Aeneid and the play Medea are some good examples of why pride can be harmful. The Aeneid was written by one of the greatest known roman poets during the Golden Age of Rome, Virgil. Virgil was requested to write the aeneid by Octvious because he wanted Virgil to write Rome a history. Virgil wrote a 12-book epic that tells a story about a love story about a queen named Queen Dido and a man named Aeneas. The main focus in Book IV of the Aeneid was Virgil gives specific details about why Aeneus has to leave Queen Dido right after they marry. On the other hand the play Medea was written by Euripides in 431 B.C. Medea was about a sorcerer named Medea and her husband named Jason who decided to leave her. The theme for the Aeneid was “Duty to you gods before personal desire”. As for the play Medea the theme was “To think rationally in difficult times”. Both essentially resulting in death for instance the killing Queen Dido’s self, and killing sons to seek revenge.…

    • 570 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    religion discrimination. This is conveyed through the use of historical events, the story takes place in the early 1940’s, in a Nazi Germany. The novel is written through the perspective of Bruno, a nine year old boy whose father is a Commandment as a part of the Nazis. Throughout the book Bruno loses much of his childhood innocence and begins to question the goings on and discrimination around him. This message is provocative because many societies still discriminate against different religions. It challenges me to think about how in New Zealand our society may not be perfect without any religion discrimination, but in comparison we are at peace. If I was in the same situation as Bruno, I think I would be more questioning of my father and what was going on all around me. The main techniques used to convey this idea to good effect in this text were characterization, the use of contrast and language features. I believe this idea reminds the reader that we are very privileged in our society to not be going through such horrors.…

    • 597 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays