Saki The Interlopers Analysis

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In the short story "the Interlopers" by Saki, the mood in the beginning is rather ominous and suspenseful, the author shows this with the setting which is shown in the first few lines of this story, "In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians, a man stood one winter night watching and listening", "Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy". If we analyze these two sentences it really expresses the mood, the Carpathian mountains are very vast and treacherous, also the fact that it is a winter night and the man is alone really gives it that ominous feeling. One of the major things that really affects the mood in the beginning of the story is the fact that Ulrich was hunting a "human." The author makes this fact seem even more ominous by using different words, for instance "Ulrich von Gradwitz is patrolling (not walking or any other form of movement) the forest and he is looking for a "human enemy." This is makes the mood more chilling because it creates the thought that he is guarding something. Starting in …show more content…

A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads." When this happens a tree falls on the two men and shortly after both of the men die. This creates major irony in the mood because through out the story the two men hated and wanted to kill each other but when the finally seem to make up they both die. So the mood of the interlopers shifts many times throughout this short story but generally it had a ominous and suspenseful mood aside from the shifts to enlightenment and

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