Short stories are full of action and adventure. They are intriguing, and catch the liking of the reader. They are unique in their own way, and extraordinary to read. However, some short stories have similarities. The Machine that Won the War and the Interlopers are two stories that can be compared, and contrasted, to show their true meaning, and how they can relate to each other. Every story known has a conflict. These two stories are alike, in the length of the conflict. Both the conflicts within these stories are long lasting, and have been going on for years. In The Machine that Won the War, the conflict was between the Denebians and the human race. Lamar Swift, one of the main characters in this story states, “I'll miss it …show more content…
It's hard to remember when we weren't at war with Denebians, and it seems against nature now to be at peace and to look at the stars without anxiety.” Showing that they had been at war with the Denebians for a long time. The conflict in The Interlopers, is long lasting as well. It is said in the interlude of the story, “A famous lawsuit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighboring family of petty landowners; 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.”. Both these stories have long lasting conflicts, and that is one of their many similarities. Now other than a conflict, a story needs a good antagonist. These two stories have antagonists, but the types of villain in these stories are very different. In The Interlopers, the two neighbors, Georg and Ulrich are enemies, fighting over a forest. They meet in the forest to fight, but during this feud a terrible tragedy occurs.” And before the moment of hesitation had given way to action, a deed of Nature’s own violence overwhelmed them both. A fierce shriek of the
The short story and the film have the same plots and the same conflict ...
What qualities make a short story short? Well, as stated above by, Behnam Mirzababazadeh Fomeshi, a short story is called short because it is not as long, in the number of pages, and therefore tends to focus on a contained story. Why is this, personally this is due to keeping the reader’s attention and to provide/cram as little detail, that may not be necessary.
Grasping the fact that, "each has a rifle in his hand, each has hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind" (Saki 1). In addition, the anxiety increases when a branch topples over the both of them and Georg states, "when they [Georg's men] drag me out from under these damned branches it won't need much clumsiness on their part to roll this mass of trunk right over on top of you. (Saki 2). Since, the reader is anxious to know whose men will come first and who will end up dead at the other man's feet. Even afterwards, when the two become friends, the mood is very anxious because the reader will want to know if the feud is really over or if it's a
In the beginning of both of the pieces of literature, the main character(s) have not had the experience that will shape their values yet. Rather, as time moves forward in the stories, the
... to kill the old man both demonstrate an individual who takes on the challenge of eliminating evil in their situation.
I believe the conflict in the story is an internal one. I think it is the conflict between the old woman's will power and Mother Nature. She encounters many obstacles that would influence most people to give up but she has motivation to get her task done. These encounters include a bush catching onto her dress, a scarecrow frightening her and discouragement from a white man. She also had to climb hills, cross streams and crawl under barbed wire fences which is certainly not considered an easy task for an elderly woman.. If I was forced to deal with these obstacles I know that I would most likely have turned around but her will power was too strong to let Mother Nature win.
Conflict is the hurdle between characters of a story which create worries for the readers about the next plot of that story and which will be resolved in the next plot. Children’s literature can only engage the reader and make the story successful on the basis of conflict. Conflict produces the drama and which makes their readers more involved in that story. In literary elements, there are three common of conflict in a story: 1. Character vs Character 2. Character vs the world 3. Character vs him/herself. (module 2). Hana’s suitcase story has conflict of character versus the world and The Paper Bag Princess’s story has conflict of character versus society. There are the two different conflicts in the two stories. In Hana’s suitcase, Hana is
For thousands of years the kingdoms lived in peace. Until one day there was an argument between the kings ,so both kingdoms went to war. The war waged on for years and years to come. After the war had waged on for almost a decade both kingdoms sent their full fledged armies to meet and have an all out battle to once and for all end
Though the similarities in the most obvious conflicts, those between Anderton and Kaplan, the protagonist and antagonist, and fate remain intact, it is obvious that Philip Dick's story has been expanded upon and the main characters made to fit the "big screen". Both stories, however, address the contradictions and repercussions of trying to encourage free will and safety in an ultimately predetermined setting, the basic moral conflict of destroying what is meant to represent a utopian security, as well as the issue of trading freedom for protection.
but these events seem completely irrelevant to each other. The main conflicts of the story is
The struggles both characters face demonstrate character development and contribute to the themes of the stories. Both short stories prove to be literally effective in that they disclose the main themes at the outset of each story. Although the themes may alter over the course of the stories, they are clearly defined in their respective introductions.
Despite the authors writing the stories decades apart, there are striking similarities between the protagonists. Defying the societal standard of the time, they rebelled against their marriages and strove for any feeling
Determine all of the story's conflicts. Determine the major conflict and state this in terms of protagonist versus antagonist.
Identify the different conflict episodes that exist in this case? Who was in conflict with whom? 3 points
we go back 2000 years we will notice that war was the main mean of