According to Edgar Allan Poe, in his essay titled “The Philosophy of Composition,” a short story should be read in one sitting, anywhere from a half hour to two hours. A short story is a brief fictional prose narrative that is shorter than a novel and it only usually deals with only a few characters, according to Brittannica. With it becoming shorter, it only usually focuses on one plot, with usually only one main character and with one theme. Basically, most short stories share basic elements and in the short stories of Hector Hugo Munro, you can notice all of these basic elements. So, what are these elements? The basic elements of a short story commonly include 1) Characters, 2) Conflict and Resolution, 3) Theme, and 4) Style and Presentation.
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The title interlopers mean people who interfere in the affairs of others. In the first part of the story, the interlopers were both Ulfric and Georg as both of them stand in the way of them to kill each other. During the latter part of the story, the two men are seen trapped underneath a tree, the make amends and finally ended the long feud between their families. But at the end of the story, the wolves are now considered as the interlopers because they interfered with the two men making amends. In the story, it showed that animals in the end are superior to us humans and because of our selfish intentions will lead to our greatest doom – death. This particular short story adds a more psychological aspect to it. When both men finally met one night in the forest, a sudden branch of tree falls at them, with death nearing them, both of them agreed them to forget the feud and help each other’s life. But, just when they think that everything is going great, wolves suddenly come instead.
The last short story, “Filboid Studge, the Mouse that Helped”
We could say that the common element in the short stories of Saki is because of the types of writing style he uses for his short stories, a blend of satire, irony, revenge, clever dialogues, surprising endings, psychological insights, mystery and even sometimes, horror. While Saki is well known for being always a satirist that mainly focused on the Edwardian Society on which he often mock. On the short stories chosen, all of them are written very cleverly, and with endings that is
The title interlopers mean people who interfere in the affairs of others. In the first part of the story, the interlopers were both Ulfric and Georg as both of them stand in the way of them to kill each other. During the latter part of the story, the two men are seen trapped underneath a tree, the make amends and finally ended the long feud between their families. But at the end of the story, the wolves are now considered as the interlopers because they interfered with the two men making amends. In the story, it showed that animals in the end are superior to us humans and because of our selfish intentions will lead to our greatest doom – death. This particular short story adds a more psychological aspect to it. When both men finally met one night in the forest, a sudden branch of tree falls at them, with death nearing them, both of them agreed them to forget the feud and help each other’s life. But, just when they think that everything is going great, wolves suddenly come instead.
The last short story, “Filboid Studge, the Mouse that Helped”
We could say that the common element in the short stories of Saki is because of the types of writing style he uses for his short stories, a blend of satire, irony, revenge, clever dialogues, surprising endings, psychological insights, mystery and even sometimes, horror. While Saki is well known for being always a satirist that mainly focused on the Edwardian Society on which he often mock. On the short stories chosen, all of them are written very cleverly, and with endings that is