Compare And Contrast The Interlopers And The Story Of An Hour
Comparing and Contrasting Essay the Interlopers and the Story of an Hour
In this paper I will compare and contrast the foreshadowing, setting, and characters in The Interlopers and The Story of An Hour.
Setting: the Interlopers and the Story of an Hour have very different settings. The Interlopers Is set in a dark, cold, forest on a stormy night compared to The Story of an hour which is set in Mrs. Mallard’s house. For most of the story Mrs. Mallard is sitting in her room looking outside at the signs of the new life of spring.
Foreshadowing: Both stories contain foreshadowing in them but in different ways. In The Interlopers the stormy and mysterious weather foreshadows that the men might get hurt due to the weather. This is played out when the storm causes a tree to fall on the two men pinning them on the ground. The fact that there were “deer running like driven things” and that there was “movement and unrest among the creatures” foreshadows that something bad might happen by the creatures of the forest. At the end of …show more content…
In The Story of an Hour situational irony is used when Mr. Mallard turns up alive when during the whole story he is thought to be dead. It is ironic when Mrs. Mallard dies at the end of the story. There is foreshadowing for Mrs. Mallard dying but it is still unexpected. It is also ironic when we are not told any details about Mrs. Mallard’s death when throughout the whole story so far we have been told everything that Mrs. Mallard is thinking. In The Interlopers there is situational irony when Ulrich and Georg are eaten by wolves at the end of the story. This is ironic because the two men just became friends and it is expected that they will be rescued and live happily ever after but instead they are killed by wolves. There was slight foreshadowing of their fate being decided by nature when the story states that the creatures were abnormally active tonight but the ending was still much
In this paper I will compare and contrast the foreshadowing, setting, and characters in The Interlopers and The Story of An Hour.
Setting: the Interlopers and the Story of an Hour have very different settings. The Interlopers Is set in a dark, cold, forest on a stormy night compared to The Story of an hour which is set in Mrs. Mallard’s house. For most of the story Mrs. Mallard is sitting in her room looking outside at the signs of the new life of spring.
Foreshadowing: Both stories contain foreshadowing in them but in different ways. In The Interlopers the stormy and mysterious weather foreshadows that the men might get hurt due to the weather. This is played out when the storm causes a tree to fall on the two men pinning them on the ground. The fact that there were “deer running like driven things” and that there was “movement and unrest among the creatures” foreshadows that something bad might happen by the creatures of the forest. At the end of …show more content…
In The Story of an Hour situational irony is used when Mr. Mallard turns up alive when during the whole story he is thought to be dead. It is ironic when Mrs. Mallard dies at the end of the story. There is foreshadowing for Mrs. Mallard dying but it is still unexpected. It is also ironic when we are not told any details about Mrs. Mallard’s death when throughout the whole story so far we have been told everything that Mrs. Mallard is thinking. In The Interlopers there is situational irony when Ulrich and Georg are eaten by wolves at the end of the story. This is ironic because the two men just became friends and it is expected that they will be rescued and live happily ever after but instead they are killed by wolves. There was slight foreshadowing of their fate being decided by nature when the story states that the creatures were abnormally active tonight but the ending was still much