Thursday, July 15, 2010

"The Interlopers"

In the short story "The Interlopers", it talked about how two men that had a long standing family feud about the owner of the close forest. Ulrich and Georg are hunting each other. Then Ulrich finds Georg during a storm. They stood in silence at first, each holding a rifle. Then the storm did its magic, a huge tree fell on them almost crushing the both of them. They still continue to argue, even when they're trapped under a tree. Ulrich manages to get a hold of his bottle of wine. He looks straight at Georg, bleeding all over the place. He offers, but out of his pride, Georg refuses. After that event, they start talking about how they should make peace between their two lands. They finally come to a agreement to make peace. They were still competitive. This time about who's men shall reach here first so they could announce the honor of the villages making peace. Later, they here something coming, they all think its one of their men. It turns out that it is wolves, and with a hideous cry out of fear, it ends. Its interesting that right after they made peace, their hatred still came back to bite them. if they forgot this whole feud earlier, they wouldn't of died.

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