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Compare And Contrast The Interlopers By Saki And Two Friends

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Do you think being in the face of danger and or death could bring people closer together? In the short stories “The Interlopers” by Saki and “Two Friends” by Guy de Maupassant, this task was reached. The stories relay a similar message about loyalty and fate. Their demonstrations of this theme are very dissimilar, however. The short story “The Interlopers” shares a team that fear can alter a friendship to the better while , “Two Friends” shares a team of alerting people that the Even when being put in the worst situations when someone who you value is there, fear is worthless to you. “The Interlopers,” show us the main character, a relatively poor forester and hunter from a family of foresters and hunters, Georg continues to hunt on the strip of land at the edge of Ulrich’s forest because he believes it should still belong to his family. Georg, like Ulrich, has a gang of men who roam the forest with him, rifles ready to shoot game or the opposing party. When Ulrich and Georg become trapped together beneath a large tree, Georg declares that his men will roll the trunk over Ulrich and kill him if they are the first to arrive. And when Ulrich reconsiders their feud and offers friendship, Georg is skeptical at first. …show more content…

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