Saki's The Interlopers shows many different challenges, from Man vs. Man to Man vs. Nature. This is a short story that begins with Ulrich Von Gradwitz. A man who was protecting his forest hoping to find his "enemy" or the man who hated Georg Znaeym. The Gradwitz family and the Znaeym family had a three-generation feud over some woodland. Grandfather Ulrich eventually sued and obtained in court ownership of the land that was illegally owned by the Znaeym family. We say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essayOn a cold night Ulrich went hunting with some men, but they were not looking for any animal, they were looking for a human being. But Ulrich hoped to also find Georg Znaeym in the woods. This part of the story taught me what hate is. Ulrich has gained ownership of the land that the families were fighting over, but he still feels the need to kill this man. At this moment Ulrich's heart is filled with hatred and it is no longer about the land, but about something personal to him. Later both men come face to face and both are armed with rifles and with the mentality to kill. But before either of them could say anything or fire their rifle, a beech tree fell and pinned them both to the ground. But one thing that struck me the most during all this was while both of them were stuck helplessly under the tree. Ulrich offered Znaeym a helping hand during their struggle to get out. This seems like a friendship to me. Now we're starting to see the hate lessen and start to become more of a friendship. They both need each other right now and at this point the feud shouldn't mean anything to them. This is a matter of life and death, and if a piece of forest is more important than their life it is the saddest thing ever because no land is worth or more important than a life. But they too eventually come to an agreement and forgive each other. They agreed to treat each other as neighbors, rather than enemies. The men's mutual forgiveness was not at all easy: both had to weigh the pros and cons of ending the feud. But either they made peace with each other and worked together to be freed, or they could remain angry with each other and never be rescued from under the tree. But in the end, in my opinion, they made a huge leap from where they started. They went from hating each other and wanting to kill each other to becoming friends and agreeing to treat each other as neighbors, to forgiving each other and trying to help each other escape from under the tree. Please note: this is just an example. Get a custom paper from our expert writers now. Get a Custom Essay I think the purpose of the author who made this story was to show that friendship and forgiveness prevail over hatred. No matter how long or how much hatred you feel, it can always be resolved with forgiveness and friendship. Works Cited Jacobs, W. W. (2018). The intruders. In The Lady of the Barge (pp. 47-55). Blurb.Bloom, H. (ed.). (2009). Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Infobase Publishing.Kinkead-Weekes, M., & Gregor, I. (Eds.). (1982). Saki: a collection of critical essays. Prentice Hall.Canby, H. S. (1986). The story in English. Oxford University Press.Sternlicht, S. (2014). Masterpieces of the short story of the twentieth century. Routledge.Mendelson, M. (2009). Decadence and dissipation: Saki's critical vision. In Saki (pp. 135-154). Infobase Publishing.Berman, R. (2017). The Art of Conflict: Saki's Tales. In The Philosophy of Saki (pp. 101-124). Palgrave Macmillan.Abney, M. (2013). Two Good Men in Evil Plots: Saki's “The Interlopers” and “Welcome to the Monkey, 69(1), 32-34.