Saki The Interlopers Analysis

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Throughout the short story, “The Interlopers”, author Saki creates a valuable lesson that forgiving and forgetting is better than holding grudges and remembering. The author, Saki, created a situation for the two main characters, Georg and Ulrich, from his short story, “The Interlopers”. For example, this situation causes a violence between these two characters. In addition, Ulrich was a former landowner and Georg was trespassing on his land and using Ulrich’s land for himself. Also known as stealing. Ulrich did take Georg to court, but Georg didn't agree with the court's proposal, “...the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the courts” (Saki 82). So, Ulrich became a human hunter for a night to leave and kill Georg. Ultimately,

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