The Interlopers: Literary Analysis The fictional short story The Interlopers by Saki, set in the eastern Carpathian Mountains, is a story about two men that have a long-standing feud over a small piece of land. The two men Ulrich Von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym are currently in the forest looking for each other with the intent to kill. Both men standing at an arms distance apart glare at each other about to shoot and kill the other in the middle of their forest lands. Suddenly a storm appears and a beech tree falls down on the two men. After the beech tree had fallen Ulrich started to feel a bit of sympathy for Georg so he began to offer Georg his wine flask. After struggling to free themselves the two men give up trying to be freed from the …show more content…
In the story Georg did not want to accept Ulrich’s wine flask when it is offered it to him. Also the two men continued past assumption that the land is owned by both men, the thought and feud which had lasted over three generations, came to an end shortly after the two had realized by wasting the effort required to continue the feud, years were wasted when the two could have been working together to create something great, or improve their own lives. The authors message of writing this short story is to tell us, to think before we do something because I do not think that they were thinking about what they were actually getting themselves into. It is believed that Saki wanted know that we should not put off doing something until another time, because we might miss the time to say or do what we need. Life is constantly changing and evolving and we can never be sure that we will have a chance again. Some of our connections to this story include a very personal one; when my grandma died in 2011 she gave a section of land she owned to my mom, aunt, and uncle but my mother's aunts did something to the will. I am not sure what they did to the will or how they achieved their goal, but currently my family does not talk to my mother’s aunts. Since we no longer talk to my mother’s aunts we miss out on what is happening with that side of the family. We are not sure how any of them are doing and it is