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Introducing the Story
Literary Focus: Omniscient Narrator Literary Focus: Surprise Endings Reading Skills: Monitoring Your Reading
The Interlopers
by
Saki
Feature MenuSlide2
The Interlopersby SakiSlide3
The InterlopersIntroducing the Story
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.Anton ChekhovSlide4
The InterlopersIntroducing the Story
Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym are sworn enemies. What happens when these two armed enemies come face to face in the woods on a winter night?[End of Section]Slide5
The InterlopersLiterary Focus: Omniscient Point of View
An omniscient narratorcan reveal characters’ thoughts and actions
can zoom from place to place
may tell all or save information until the end
is not a character in the story
knows everything about all the characters in the story
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The InterlopersLiterary Focus: Surprise Endings
A surprise ending resolves a story’s conflict in a totally unexpected way.[End of Section]
The ending, while surprising, is still logical.
The unexpected ending may make you rethink the story.Slide7
The InterlopersReading Skills: Monitoring Your Reading
When you encounter a difficult sentence or passage, try one of these strategies.Use context clues to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words. Context clues may
give the word’s definition
restate the word’s meaning in a different way
provide an example
show comparison or contrast Slide8
Look for the subject and the verb.
Stop to rephrase or summarize.
Break long sentences into simpler ones.
Finally, take time to re-read.
When you encounter a difficult sentence or passage try one of these strategies.
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Reading Skills: Monitoring Your ReadingSlide9
Make the Connection
The InterlopersQuickwrite[End of Section]
Most arguments can be settled when people agree to talk or compromise, but some disagreements become so bitter that they last for many years. Indeed, some regions of the world have been locked in conflict for generations. Write down a few examples of feuds from history or literature that have torn families or even countries apart. What keeps such bitter hatred alive?Slide10
VocabularySlide11
Previewing the Vocabulary
precipitous adj.: very steep.acquiesced v. (used with in): accepted; complied with.marauders n.: people who roam in search of loot, or goods to steal.
exasperation n.: great annoyance.
pious adj.:
showing religious devotion.The Interlopers
VocabularySlide12
Previewing the Vocabulary
retorted v.: replied sharply.condolences n.: expressions of sympathy.languor n.: weakness; weariness.reconciliation n.:
friendly end to a quarrel.succor
n.: help given to someone in distress; relief.
The InterlopersVocabularySlide13
Vocabulary Activity: Context Clues
Context clues—the words and phrases around a word—can point toward the meaning of an unfamiliar word. Definition: The people who interfered were accused of being
interlopers.
4. Comparison or Contrast:
Far from being welcome guests, those dropping by were seen as interlopers.
2. Restatement:
The interlopers, intruders
on horseback, rode into town.
3. Example:
Guards treated all visitors—
tourists, journalists, photographers
—as
interlopers.
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VocabularySlide14
1.
They agreed to forget and forgive and shook hands as a sign of ____________. 2. Both teams ____________ in the umpire’s ruling.3. At the memorial service, we offered ____________.
4. “You’re late,” he said, tapping his watch in ____________.
5. “Well, your watch is wrong,” she ___________ in anger.
Vocabulary Activity
Use context clues to complete each sentence with the correct word.
condolences
reconciliationretorted
acquiesced
exasperation
reconciliation
acquiesced
retorted
exasperation
condolences
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VocabularySlide15
Meet the WriterSlide16
Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) adopted the pen name Saki, after the character who served wine to the gods in the then-popular Persian poem the
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.Saki was born in Burma, where his father was an officer in the military police. After the death of his mother, Saki and his two older siblings were sent to England to live with their grandmother and two aunts. More About the Writer[End of Section]
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Meet the Writer