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Intricacies Of Friendship And Rivalry In The Interlopers By Saki
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.
Protagonist Ulrich and antagonist Georg greatly despises each other in the beginning, animosity starting with their grandfathers not only on the account of the family feud, but because of also personal hostility in the past. In paragraph two the author includes “as boys they had thirsted for one another's

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