I must say that I never really appreciated reading The Outsiders in high school as I did reading it again this time around. Ponyboy’s narrative is such and up and down read that its exactly as if i were speaking to my younger bother except for the gang fights and people dying. Ponyboy’s understanding of the way social groups function and the way each of the group members play such a huge role are way beyond that of a 14 year old. The distorting effects of hatred and rivalry make the reading less
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“The Interlopers” is a short story written by Saki‚ this story is the tale of two men who are battling a long fought property war. The feud has gone on for many generation‚ and does not look like it will end until one of the men is dead. One day the two men are both in the same prized woods. One man‚ Ulrich is looking for the other‚ Georg. When they do find each other‚ an unfortunate event occurs‚ and it looks like they will be stuck for awhile. While they are trapped‚ they think they hear their
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I’ve never been much of an outdoors person‚ the outdoors scare me‚ I don’t like bugs‚ or the dark. I would have never have been caught in the woods after dark the way Ulrich and Georg were. In the story “Interlopers” by Saki‚ two men‚ Ulrich and Georg‚ had a long existing argument over land owned by Ulrich; one night they encountered each other in the woods with the idea to kill one another‚ ironically‚ a beech tree had fallen on the men leaving them to struggle until they were found. While struggling
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“ The Interloper”- Analysis Ever experienced that feeling of fear or dread while rambling through the forest? That creeping on the neck and hair-raising on the arms would not be a foreign sensation to the reader as Saki uses third person point of view‚ mood and setting to add a fearsome aura to the theme of the story‚ “The Interloper”. The point of view greatly influences the plot by creating a feeling of the here and now. The reader is in this place at this time! By using this angle‚ the
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The “Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the best- written books of all time‚ the narrator Nick is a very well spoken storyteller when it comes to talking about a man named Jay Gatsby‚ who he introduces in the first few pages of the novel. Nick explains that Jay Gatsby is a rich man who earned all the money he could have hoped for‚ but he never reached his goal of making Daisy his lovely wife. Much of Jay’s early life consisted of being born on a farm with poor parents‚ he later
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decades. Tensions had grown‚ and now‚ standing on the edge of the unusually restless trees‚ Ulrich felt that he could finally do something. Georg Znaeym was trespassing in that forest‚ and he would get him at last. In “The Interlopers”‚ the author‚ Saki‚ uses irony to support the theme that no matter how much power a person has‚ nature can always win in the end. In the beginning of the story‚ Ulrich has a sense of power. He is nobility‚ a “von” Gradwitz (428)‚ and owns acres of forest lands “well
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbgioh_the-lumber-room-by-hector-hugh-munr_creation The Lumber Room Saki THE children were to be driven‚ as a special treat‚ to the sands at Jagborough. Nicholas was not to be of the party; he was in disgrace. Only that morning he had refused to eat his wholesome bread-and-milk on the seemingly frivolous ground that there was a frog in it. Older and wiser and better people had told him that there could not possibly be a frog in his bread-and-milk and that he
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HOW BAD YOUR JEALOUSY CONTROLS YOUR SELF AS REFLECTED IN VERA’S CHARACTERISTIC IN THE OPEN WINDOW by SAKI A. INTRODUCTION “The Open Window” is the story of a deception did on an unsuspecting‚ and constitutionally nervous man‚ by a young lady whose motivations for lying remain unclear. That is Vera‚ the center of the case in this story. A “very self-possessed young lady of fifteen‚” Described as a girl who has bad manner to other people. She doesn’t have parents and lives with her aunt
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Fitzgibbons English 190 10/28/04 Reflecting the Storyteller It is said that people often look like their pets. Geoffrey Chaucer plays off this idea with his literary work‚ The Canterbury Tales‚ by making the character ’s story reflect upon the character him or herself. The description of a character is a sort of foreshadowing of what kind of tale he or she will tell. The stories are written so that the content and the style both relate to the storyteller ’s character. The Miller‚ a rough and rude man
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In the story‚ Reginald was a fictitious character created by Saki. Trying to look deeper‚ the name‚ Reginald‚ can actually mean ‘king’. In the first sentence‚ “ ‘Never‚’ wrote Reginald to his most darling friend‚ ‘be a pioneer. It’s the Early Christian that gets the fattest lion.’ ” this sentence actually means it is better to stay in middle and keep silent. Being Christians were banned in that era‚ they were being killed. This sentence in the story is very ironic. Reginald was a teenager who was
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