Similarities Between The Interlopers And Two Friends

“The Interlopers” and “Two Friends” are two contradictory stories that possess similar elements. The main difference is the relationship of the figures within the two short stories. The Interlopers written by Saki ventures on the everlasting feud between two families, the Gradwitz and Znaeym. The prolonged hatred between the two families was passed for three generations due to land dispute and long lasting sequence of poaching affrays. In order to finalize their discord, they sought to kill each other one night. However, a tree branch collapsed on them, hindering them to execute their premeditated attack. Positioned in a disadvantage state, the two patriarchs of their respective family miraculously reconciled. In unison, the two men hollered for help, but the sound attracted the wolves. In contrary to the aforementioned story, “Two Friends” tells of two men, Monsieur Morissot and Monsieur Sauvage, who established a strong connection through fishing. Amidst famine and the Franco-Prussian war, they decided to fish within the vicinity of the …show more content…
In The Interlopers, it suggests that Georg Znaeym is a trespasser, taken to an account that his family has a history of hunting in Gradwitz territory. In actuality, they both infiltrated on a strip of land that is not rightfully theirs, making them the interlopers of nature. Case in point, Urich and Georg encountered the formidable forces of the forest, the tree branch and the pack of wolves. Similarly, in Two Friends, Monsieur Morissot and Monsieur Sauvage disregarded the dangers that await them and decided to fish in a high-risk area. Though they were granted permission by the colonel, their choice of location and time are incongruous. As a result, the Prussian soldiers falsely perceived them as spies because of their questionable action and killed the two