The Themes Of Saki And Frosts The Interlopers By Robert...

â€Å"There is more power in unity than division.† -Emanuel Cleaver (â€Å"Unity Quotes†) Cleaver’s idea is embraced by many, and supported by Saki and Robert Frost in their respective stories. â€Å"The Interlopers†, written by Saki, pits the two main characters against the struggle of generational hate. Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym were raised to hate each other, and on one night, both men set out in quest of their human enemy. Robert Frost’s â€Å"Mending Wall† centers around two neighbors, one with pines, and one with an apple orchard. The two traditionally meet around springtime to repair the wall between them. In both literary works, the two main characters unite on account of the ironic situations they encounter, paving the way for†¦show more content†¦In â€Å"Mending Wall†, two neighbors are ironically united by the traditional rebuilding of the wall between them. A wall symbolizes boundaries, orders, a nd separation. Or does it? One of the two neighbors doesn’t seem to think so. â€Å"Good fences make good neighbors† is his motto. (Line 26) The neighbor doesn’t see how ironic it is that the wall is a meeting spot. He uses the wall as an excuse to talk with his neighbor, because he is not very open or conversational. The situational irony ostended by Robert Frost is that the wall between the two clashing neighbors is supposed to separate them. However, each year, when they meet to â€Å"walk the line†, the wall serves as a meeting spot for the two to catch up. (Line 12) Dividing, but unifying, Frost uses the wall to symbolize unity amongst clashing people. Without the situational irony of repairing the wall, the two incompatible neighbors would unlikely be able to unite. â€Å"The Interlopers† and â€Å"Mending Wall† are very compatible pieces of writing. Both spotlight tradition, and how it can cloud one’s vision of something. Gradwitz and Znaeym’s hate towards each other stemmed from the traditional hate between their two families. The narrator’s neighbor in â€Å"Mending Wall† stuck behind his father’s tradition of living by the motto â€Å"good fences make good neighbors†. The conflicts that arose in both works, in part of tradition, were solved by situational irony.