Indeed, the external conflict of“Two Friends” is that the two guilty men did …show more content…
They were then face to face with a hurdle of nature, and were caught underneath a tree. When they ended their feud, they began hearing noises which they assumed were their men. Instead it ended with the Georg and Ulrich getting attacked wolves. This relates to the plot of “Two Friends” because Monsieur Sauvage and Monsieur Morrisant were both captured by the German General who asked them for a password, which they did not know. They are different because the climax of the “The Interlopers” was due to nature, whereas “Two Friends” had a climax resulted by people. They are similar due to both stories having a dreadful …show more content…
In “Two Friends” it states “The two friends, pale as death, stood silently side by side, a slight fluttering of the hands alone betraying their emotion.” In addition, the tone of “The Interlopers” was serious which resulted in a somber and gloomy mood. For instance in the text it states “a man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision, and, later, of his rifle.” In “Two Friends” the tone was The tone of the story is somber due to the story taking place during war. Additionally it is somber because of the fact two innocent friends were murdered. This makes the mood depressing, and dreary. On top of that the author’s word choices impacted the tone of the story. For instance he used phrases with negative connotations, “massacring” was used to show what the prussians were like. Although both stories share their similarities and differences both were able to convey character development and its central