The Interlopers

The interlopers is a short story that talks about an ancient conflict about a property between two families. This problem starte when the two families claimed the property but finally one won it. This problem has been taken up to the third generation of the families, up to the grandchilds. The leader of each family wishes to kill the other one and they quarrel often getting into the other's property. One night Ulrich and his men got out to the forest no to hunt game but to hunt Georg, the leader of the other family. They walk into the forest when finally Ulrich and Georg found each other, both armed, but they didn't shoot they just stared each other and while this happened a thunder struck a tree and it fell down and trapped both men. They start arguing about who will kill the other first when their rspectively men arrived and how they will kill the other one. The time passed and Georg took some wine he had and he felt pity when he saw Ulrich and offered him some wine, but he rejected it. Then, Georg said Ulrich that if his men arrived first he wouldn't kill him and he will asked them to free Ulrich first because he was tired of that fool quarrel, he offered Ulrich to be friends. Ulrich said he was also tired about the quarrel and he accepted to be his friend. Now the quarrel was solved. Finally, one of them saw some shadows and he thought they were the other's men but when they got closer he saw they weren't no one's men...they were wolves.
I liked this short story because it has a surprise ending that is not often used in stories that is the possible dead of the protagonists. I also think it's original how the author develops the story up to the point where two life-enemies become friends and at the end they both seemed to die eaten by wolves, not many authors make his main character died and I liked that really much because it breaks the stereotype that almost all stories have. It is also ironic how the two characters broke with the old quarrel that their families had and they became friends but when this happened they probably died eaten by wolves, so the quarrel won't finish because their sons will never know what happened and they will still fight. Both Ulrich and Georg are dynamic characters becase they totally changed their way of thinking about each other. Probably many people don't like the story because of the ending but I think it's good to break with the "And they lived happy forever..." and all the sturctures that are always used in novels or stories. The author managed very well to avoid foreshadowings in this story because i don't think anyone guessed its ending.