Essays on The Interlopers

In the short stories “The Lottery” and “The Interlopers,” the authors Shirley Jackson and Saki (respectively) use pacing, text structure, and strong moods to build suspense. Through the use of the literary elements mentioned above, the reader is left surprised at the end of both...

Have you ever discovered that someone isn’t who they seem to be? Or have you ever experienced an event that made you think back on a past action or thought? Well in the two stories, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, and “ The...

This essay introduces us to a story called The Interlopers where the two main characters hold resentment towards each other. It started and got carried through grandparent’s generation. In fact the story holds more than one conflict that also stood in the way of the...

Imagine how uneventful a book would be without some type of suspense or surprise. How is it possible for authors to ensure they create such responses from their audience? The British fiction writer Hector Hugh Munro, also known by his pen name “Saki”, was known...

The Interlopers by Saki shows many different challenges, from Man vs Man to Man vs Nature. This is a short story that begins with Ulrich Von Gradwitz. A man who was watching out for his forest hoping to find his “enemy” or the man he...

It’s funny how we interrupt stories to our daily life and we relive them in our own mind and we become the hero and the villain and Saki does that the best in the interlopers and especially in the conflicts of the story. In my...

In this essay, I will discuss the types of conflict in the interlopers. It’s a matter between two characters like man vs man, or between the character and itself like man vs self, it could be between the character and nature like man vs nature...

Although the story The Interlopers is relatively brief, it contains more than one type of conflict that challenge and intermingle characters in different ways, contributing in building up the plot. This essay’s purpose is to highlight and explain in further detail all of the said...