Analysis Of The Interlopers By Saki

The Interlopers The atmosphere of the setting for the story The Interlopers by Saki starts off and ends the same way as the characters within the story. The setting makes the mood as dark and gloomy, just like the two enemies in the story that are trying to kill one another and having a dispute over land they are both trying to claim. The setting changes as the nature around them beings to change and also becomes suspenseful. The ending to the story is a bit ironic because the two become friends, but they get attacked by a pack of wolves. The setting could really help determine what will happen in a story, and The Interlopers is a perfect example. The mood of the story that Saki wrote, is the same mood you get form the characters from
the story. It gives off a mood of darkness and hatred, and even thunder and lightning strike as the characters have their altercation. The mood of the setting is always suspenseful in this story because you never know what is going to happen next. It seems as though the setting goes along with how the characters are feeling at that time as if somehow they can control it. There could be many reasons on why the author chose this setting but these are just opinions of a reader. The setting makes the dispute of the characters Ulrich and Georg become more shocking and realistic. As they begin to argue about whose is the owner of the land weather and things of all nature around them begin to change. The forest becomes much darker and disturbing as the story becomes more and more suspenseful. Even at the end when they were attacked the forest became darker and lifeless. And that is what I found shocking about the setting being involved with the dispute. Saki made the setting contribute with the ending by surprising them. You’d think that with them becoming friends at the end the weather would become better or brighten the mood. But just like the ending the nature around them ends as dark and gloomy. You could probably even foreshadow that nothing good will happen in the end by the setting or the weather and nature around them. And this is how the setting contributes to the ending. The setting in The Interlopers, the setting is a big part of the story. It helps create the suspense one feels when reading this story. Since the setting gives you dark and gloomy feeling you can determine what the author wants you to think will happen in the story. The setting helps a ton on how to set the mood for this story. And this why The Interlopers by Saki was a great example to show how the setting can help out a lot with the plot of a story.