Friday, February 10, 2023

The Interlopers by Saki: Analysis

 


Check Your Comprehension

1. He patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy.
2. Along series of poaching affaires and similar scandals had embittered the relationship between the families for three generations.
3. A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads, but they could not leap aside a mass of a falling beech tree had thundered down on
them, making them prisoners with a fatal fate to face.

Critical thinking
1.Both men are land owners ,both men hate each other, both have resentment towards each other.
One owns forest land and the other does not.
2. Because it was of his family and he tried to protect the things that belonged to him.
3. George doesn’t consider himself a roach when he hunts in the forest because his family has been in charge of the land for many years.
4 Because the situation that they had to live through in order to stay for hours to guard that forest waiting  to be saved, then this transformed their relationship when they had to join to fight the upcoming wolves that were approaching and that at the beginning they mistook for humans, members of their staff.
(5 the wolves and the tree were their enemies in reality at that point)

Using Word Bank
1. We just found out about a massive theft from a humble entrepreneurial business.
2. Very high place, easily visible to the horizon. Nature everywhere, vegetation down, trees and plants. Simply beautiful.
3. Look for a place where water can sink and prepare special suits to use. Be ready to get or grab the things that went down into the water.
4. I’m here for you, in everything you need, to tell me how you feel and what you want.
5. Very happy to be again on my feet, and healthy. Is boring to be laid down all day.
6. A salad with lettuce extracted from the Himalayas, tomatoes and bananas cut in slices.
Conflict:
Character vs character  or man Vs. man is the case of Ulrich Von Gradwits and then the neighboring family of George .

Character vs nature
When a big branch of a falling beech tree had thundered them down.

Character vs himself
When they both were on the floor, hurt, repented, trying to survive and the realization that their actions were impossible to be reverted.

By Samuel Pérez, Step 9