Task 1: Answer the following question below:
1.) In one paragraph explain the points the author is making about hatred, friendship, and forgiveness. You must draw examples directly from the text. Task 2: Respond with and addition or an opinion directly to one of your classmates post
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Ms. Hurtado
9/15/2014 01:02:52 am
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Ms. Hurtado
9/15/2014 01:03:22 am
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HIIII
11/6/2017 07:05:48 pm
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Beijing Williams
9/15/2014 01:12:55 am
I think what the author is trying to say about friendship is that you can despise a person for long time in your life, but in a moment you can come together. In the story at the end when the both Ulrich and Georg are trapped under the tree they both said that if either of their men come they will let them rescue the other first. They both we using each other as a resource.
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shely genao
9/15/2014 01:17:36 am
i agree with you ;)
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Gossip George
9/15/2014 01:18:21 am
Heyyy Bejiggy. So I agree with this answer because at the end they both did need something and they did try to at least help each other for example by offering the wine flask to take away the pain and even just hoping that they would be the first to help each other. K Bye Lml
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itz me from the future (2017)
11/6/2017 07:01:45 pm
heyyy Beijiggy
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Gossip George
9/15/2014 01:15:38 am
The author of the short story The Interlopers are trying to make a point that hatred,friendship, and forgiveness is very important. I feel that the author is saying that if you spend all your days hating someone and holding grudges that one day when you finally learn to forgive and start a new friendship it might be to late. For Example in the short story they basically say that neighbor if my people are the first to come then i would have them free you first and in the end I would like to put our differences behind us and become friends.
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Beijing Williams
9/15/2014 01:19:44 am
Hi Gossip! I agree with what you said. This is exactly what i meant to say, but i just didn't know how to put it into words. That's why forgiveness is very important. Bye Gossip.
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Gossip George
9/15/2014 01:20:51 am
Yess Yess . Tah Tah Bejiggy.
Joel Jerez
9/15/2014 01:16:30 am
In the beginning of the story, the author described how both characters, Ulrich von Gradwitz and George Znaeym, have a kind of hatred towards each other. They both want to see each other dead. Towards the end of the story, Ulrich wants to end the conflict he has with Georg. After Ulrich expresses his feelings to Georg, Georg agrees and they both forgive each other. Then they become friends... until they both meet their demise by the wolves.
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Joel Jerez
9/15/2014 01:21:07 am
(Continued) The point that the author was trying to make about hatred, forgiveness, and friendship was that you can hate someone for so long that sooner or later, you get tired of the constant conflict, so you just try to make up, forgive, and become friends.
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jasmin emiliano
9/15/2014 01:35:05 am
I agree with you because sometimes I get tired of the conflicts I have with some people and i just call it quits i dont lose but i dont win i just drop it (good one) lol
shely genao
9/15/2014 01:16:51 am
The author is trying to make a point by showing how much hate the characters have for eachother, the neighbor feud had grown into a personal one since ulrich had come to be head of his family.In friendship the author shows friendship as a point by showing how friendship is possible no matter the situation or how much hate one character has for the other. Forgiveness was used in the text because the author is trying to show that forgiveness is possible no matter how much hatred is being shown, and anything can happen
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Joel Jerez
9/15/2014 01:32:29 am
You're right. There will always come a moment where there will be no other choice but to forgive and forget,
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Gabrielle Bowen
9/15/2014 01:17:12 am
In the short story, The Interlopers, Saki shows the way human relationships can always alter and change at any moment in time. In the beginning of the story, Ulrich and Georg hate each other over the pettiness of a family feud and hunting grounds. As the audience, we can see the pure hatred they have for each other because they are so determined to kill each other. Soon after, the two approach each other and just as they have the chance to end the other's life, trees fall upon them and they become stuck under them and with each other. As a result, they begin to talk and while Ulrich is willing to move passed the feud to share a drink, Georg refuses stilling clinging onto the hate, but as time goes by, he looses up and the friendship forms and forgiveness follows. But ironically enough, the story ends with the idea of both men being killed, not by each other, but by nature itself; the falling of the trees and the wolves. The way circumstances were, it almost seemed as if Ulrich and Georg had no choice but to forgive each other so they could die, chances are that none of their men would come for them.
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Samantha Torres
9/15/2014 01:31:04 am
I disagree witht the fact that they had no choice but to forgive because they couldve still held a grudge against eachother till they died which would be silly but could've still happend
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Eilene Grullon
9/15/2014 01:17:48 am
The author was showing how much they hated each other and how this conflict became personal. Then he shows how they got tired of hating each other & that hatred made them realize that it wasn't worth it to keep hating each other when they both were agonizing. They even offered help to each other showing kindness.
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Jailyn Ortiz
9/15/2014 01:18:46 am
The point the author is trying to make about hatred is that hate leads you no where and it only makes matters worse, for example in the story the two men Ulrich and Georg displayed a tremendous amount of hatred to one another resulting in a deed of nature's own violence which caused the situation to worsen.
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Eilene Grullon
9/15/2014 01:21:37 am
I agree with you. They hated each other so much that the conflict became personal.
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itz yer boi
11/6/2017 07:00:11 pm
hello i am from the future of 2017
Genesis richards
9/15/2014 01:24:45 am
I agree with you because if they would have resolved their problems, it wouldnt have gotten that far.
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Gilbert Asamoah
9/15/2014 01:19:11 am
In the short story, what Saki is saying about hatred, friendship, and forgiveness is, friendship matters more than hatred and hatred can lead you into uncomfortable situations with one another as the situation Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg got into. By looking at the end of the story a reader can infer that, do not make it too late to forgive one another. If Georg and Ulrich von Gradwitz would have forgave each other earlier maybe they wouldn't have been in the forest looking to kill each other and the whole situation would have never happened. Last but not the least what Saki(the author) is trying to say is avoid conflict and be friends with one another.
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Gabrielle Bowen
9/15/2014 01:23:53 am
I totally agree with your statement. The path of hatred basically led them to their death, but at least they were smart enough to end their feud before their deaths.
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Aanaya
9/15/2014 01:28:31 am
I agree with you Gilbert.
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Abraham Negron
9/15/2014 01:20:37 am
In the story the author is trying to make a point that no matter what the type of relationship two people have with each other, if it comes to a certain situation where both people are in danger then both will have forgiveness for each other and form a friendship to strive to survive. In the story the "Interlopers" by Saki two men who hate each other over who's land the forest belongs to are stranded in the woods and pinned to the floor by trees. They soon forget the hatred for each other and developed a friendship after one of the men offered some wine. They eventually came to a conclusion that who's ever soldiers comes first they will let the other one get out from being pinned first and let them live so they can work together instead of apart and following a old tradition.
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Gilbert Asamoah
9/15/2014 01:23:00 am
That's a solid point and I was about to write the same stuff
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Abraham Negron
9/15/2014 01:28:01 am
(Cont.) Saki the author is also trying to show that friendship can triumph any type of hatred and demise people have for each other.
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Joel Jerez
9/15/2014 01:34:48 am
BEST PARAGRAPH EVER BROO OMG SOO GOOD
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Aanaya Rowell
9/15/2014 01:21:31 am
Saki is trying to make the point that sometimes we let our dislike for someone grow in to hatred where we slowly come to despise that individual. Hatred can be overcome if the two arguing parties sit down and discuss the problem they have with each other. Saki is showcasing that it is never to late to forgive somebody and for people to bury the bad blood between them to become friends. Like in the story Georg and Ulrich buried their old quarrel.When Ulrich took that first step by asking Georg to be his friend and he accepted. It was a new beginning for the two men. They were planning who will save the other when their men came to rescue them. The two men went from killing each other to who was going to save the other first.
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Danielley Greaves
9/15/2014 01:24:16 am
I agree with you , but I think if you cited evidence that your paragraph would've been much stronger.
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Elizabeth Dwomoh
9/15/2014 01:33:24 am
I agree with your answer because if the two men had sat down and discussed their problems, they would have been friends. Their ongoing feud only resulted in the deaths of each other.
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Danielley Greaves
9/15/2014 01:22:08 am
In The Interlopers the author explains the points about hatred because on page page 85 " ... it won't need much clumsiness on their part to roll this mass of trunk right over on the top of you." Even though both Ulrich von Gradwitz and Gergo Znaeym are lying beneath a tree they still want each other dead and are trying to predict the future. After awhile Ulrich was over the on going family feud he had to decided to end it the conflict. It states on page 86 of The Interlopers "... But as for me, I've changed my mind. If my men are the first to come, you shall be the first to be helped, as though you were my guest. " Ulrich is ready to start on a fresh note and with hope to have a friendship because he realixed and came to his senses that the conflict is pointless.
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Amanda Rosario
9/15/2014 01:33:17 am
I agree. Ulrich was right minded wanting to forgive and move on the conflict while Georg was being ignorant, which why they both probably died.
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Genesis Richards
9/15/2014 01:22:18 am
I think what the author is trying to convey about hatred is that it could be dangerous and if you let it, it can go wild and take you with it like how hatred has kept both families going at it for generations pushing them to see the other dead.
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Jemima Constanza
9/15/2014 01:31:52 am
I agree with you because I think that even if they couldn't stand each other's family, love came across and they began a great friendship although they died at the end.
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Jasmin Emiliano
9/15/2014 01:22:29 am
In the interlopers we come across two men with the biggest hatred possible, we believed they would never be friends again. Towards the middle of the story the men begin to realize that the hatred they had all along was not worth it. when things got hard and they saw that they needed peace between themselves to at least survive for the moment, they barred the hatchet. forgiving each other for all the horrible things said and done. the point of the story is hatred, friendship, and forgiveness all come together at some point.
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Joel Jerez
9/15/2014 01:27:25 am
I agree with you. They all come together at some point. it's part of a friendship/relationship. Everyone goes through it, and in this case, Ulrich and Georg went through it and they became friends after squashing their "beef". (pause)
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Samantha Torres
9/15/2014 01:22:42 am
In the short story "The Interlopers" by Saki the author makes a point about hatred, friendships, and forgiveness by first expressing this hatred between two men named Ulrich von Gradwitz and George Znaeym. The author shows how they have had a feud long before they were born but carried it with them as they grew up. The author decided to put a twist to the story leaving it so that both men are traped and on the verge of dying. This had mad the charactors realize that they might as well settle their differences aside to see another tomorrow. First they had to forgive eachother witch was simple since they never started the feud in the first place. Next they decided to be friends and help each other out if one of their men come first. All this happend only for them both to die at lest they died with peace
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Elizabeth Dwomoh
9/15/2014 01:23:08 am
Saki makes the bold argument that having hatred can only get you so far before you come to realize its just not worth it. Ulrich and Georg have had this family feud for generations and its basically become their life. They both constantly express their hatred toward each other in wishing the other to die a horrible death. However the irony comes into play when both men left to die and only then did the two men realize the how pointless and unrewarding this feud really was. The two men finally express forgiveness toward one another and if not for their untimely situation, the two men would have become friends in the near future. Saki gives the readers a lesson to be learned and that lesson is to not allow hatred to run your life or have control over you, because you would only be wasting your time and efforts. Learn to forgive and move on.
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kaylia
9/15/2014 01:24:29 am
Saki is trying to point out that its never to late forgive those we hate or dislike the most in certain circumstances. The feud both Ulrich and Georg have for each other is unconditional and due to the situation that they were in, they realize that they really have nothing to hate on each other. In someways, both men knew that their team of men wouldn't rescue them because of this hate they had for so long. If both men had buried their feud, they wouldn't end up in the situation they were in, Ulrich realize that and was willing to share a friendship with Georg.
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Jemima Constanza
9/15/2014 01:27:34 am
In the story "The Interlopers", hatred is shown when Ulrich vonn Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym were explaining how they didn't stand each other because of a land feud that came between the families for three generations, which involved hatred in such a way that they needed to kill one of them, for the other to take the promised land. Also, this story shows friendship when after they confronted each other in the forest, a big violent storm came and falling beech trees had thundered down on them. Friendship is developed to show that even when hatred was surrounding them, love intertwined with negative forces, for them to help each other in this difficult time. Finally, forgiveness was also shown in this reading when they found themselves alone in the forest, and their men didn't came to save them. Forgiveness was a strong feeling in the scene because they became friends, they had forgive each other and died happy.
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Abraham Negron
9/15/2014 01:30:55 am
Muy buena jemima, usted explico los puntos muy bien.
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Amanda Rosario
9/15/2014 01:30:28 am
In The Interlopers the author interprets friendship and hatred in the same sense. In the story, enemies that have had issues forever, end up isolated together. They start bickering about who will be saved first and who will be killed first. Soon after though, Ulrich realized that they should not hate each other forever and that is foolish. Georg disagrees, being ignorant and selfish. In the end both men are left for dead when Wolves are coming towards them. The author wanted the enemies to forgive rather than continue hating because they never knew who was going to live longer.
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Estefani F. Pena
9/15/2014 01:31:25 am
The point that the author is trying to make is that hatred could at times be stopping you from living a happier life. I say this because in lines 15-19 it says "..the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations." THREE GENERATIONS! Is a pretty long time. The next point the author is trying to prove is forgiveness, he proves that it isnt a very hard thing to do. For example in lines 138-141 Ulrich had said, "Neighbor, do as you please if your men come first. It was a fair compact. But as for me, I've changed my mind. If my men are the first to come, you shall be the first to be helped, as though you were my guest." Although it shouldn't take you having a tree holding you and your enemy down to have forgiveness, it makes a big difference. Later the author points out that friendship could always be a great thing. Gorg in lines 155-160 he says, "And if we choose to make peace among our people, there is none other to interfere, no interlopers from outside.. You would come and keep the Sylvester night beneath my roof, and I would come and feast on some high day at your castle.. I would never fire a shot on your land." Gorg was willing to start a new friendship and putting the past behind him.
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