This is your journal activity. Complete the prewriting steps below before moving on to the journal response.
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Read the text below:
from “The Interlopers” by Saki: The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent and well stocked with game; the narrow strip of precipitous woodland that lay on its outskirt was not remarkable for the game it harboured or the shooting it afforded, but it was the most jealously guarded of all its owner’s territorial possessions. A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring 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.
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Now paraphrase what you just read:
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Mark the Text
Now mark any adjectives or descriptive phrases about the setting and think about the mood created by that description.
from “The Interlopers” by Saki:
The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent and well stocked with game; the narrow strip of precipitous woodland that lay on its outskirt was not remarkable for the game it harboured or the shooting it afforded, but it was the most jealously guarded of all its owner’s territorial possessions. A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring 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.
Notes: (Jot down any ideas you might have based on your markings)
Write the Response
Journal Question: How does Saki use adjectives or descriptive phrases about the setting to create tension in his narrative?
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