Saki’s stories”The Interloper” and “The storyteller” teach readers many lessons. In “The Interlopers” the lesson would be “even the worst friendships can be fixed”. In the story “The Storyteller” the lesson would be “not all stories end happy”.


In the story The Interlopers the lesson would be “even the worst friendships could be fixed”. This applies to the two men Ulrich von Cranky and Georg Zane who try to kill each other in the story. It all started when Georg trespassed on Ulrich’s land and he found out about it. The two men with their crew set out in the woods to kill each other. Later the two men found each other, but their other men were somewhere else in the woods. While they had an argument the wind picked up and took hold of a tree and it came crashing down on the two men. They both could not move their legs to get out. They argued and argued. Then Ulrich took out a flask with whiskey, took a sip and tossed it to Georg. They began to talk and talk and both realized they could trust each other. They formed a trust, but both had later been killed by wolves while trying to yell out to their men. In the story “The Storyteller” the lesson is “not all stories end happy”.


In the story The Storyteller The lesson would be “not all stories end happy”. This applies to a story a bachelor tells to a group of people. He starts out the story with a girl named Beth and she was the best behaved girl around. She even earned medals for her behavior. She later was invited to walk in the prince’s park for a week because of her goodness. The bachelor went on and on about her time at the park. When Beth was walking in the park her first day a wolf had spotted her and her tinny body. He followed her. Then when the time was right the wolf leaped out and took her down. The wolf had devoured her. All that was left of her were her shoes, some clothing, and her three medals for goodness.


Stories are effective teaching tools because they tell us how we can make up such events like wolfs eating little girls and men and how stories can end so badly. We can apply these lessons to our lives because we can’t always expect good ending and not all stories end happy.