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“The Interlopers” Essay Exam
I can recall a time when an enormous maple tree fell on my house during a windstorm. My past experience is similar to the short story “The Interlopers” by Saki. In “The Interlopers” Georg Znaeym and Ulrich von Gradwitz meet in the forest. They are enemies. A long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations. They begin talking, and they realize that it is foolish to be fighting over a stupid strip of forest, where the trees can not even stand upright in a breath of wind. They become friends in the end, but then the unthinkable happens, the wolves come. Throughout the story there are many literary elements used.
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