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I’ve changed my mind. If my men are the first to come you shall be the first to be helped, as though you were my guest. We have quarreled like devils all our lives over this stupid strip of forest, where the trees can’t even stand upright in a breath of wind. Lying here tonight, thinking, I’ve come to think we’ve been rather fools; there are better things in life than getting the better of a boundary dispute. Neighbor, if you will help me to our the old quarrel I-??I will ask you to be my friend,” Lurch said.
George Snazzy accepted his friendship request and agreed to be civil with each other by saying, I would never fire a shot on your land, save when you invited me as a guest; and you should come and shoot with me down in the marshes where the wildfowl are. In all the countryside there are none that could hinder if we willed to make peace. I never thought to have wanted to do other than hate you all my fife, but I think I have changed my mind about things too, this last half-hour, and you offered me your wine flask…
Lurch von Graduate, I will be your friend. ” While in the silence thinking of the changes this reconciliation would bring, Lurch suspects he sees his men. There are nine to ten figures coming through the woods, but is it what he thinks to be? The author of this story, Kaki, used irony to make a comment about human nature by making the reader believe Lurch and George were going to get rescued hill in fact, they weren’t.
Kaki made the reader suspect that what Lurch saw in the distance was his men coming to help him and his new friend out from under the tree. In reality, the figures that Lurch saw were wolves coming to eat the two troubled men. This is ironic because before Lurch and George were friends, they were arguing about whose men will come first and who will be left for dead. After becoming friends and seeing the wolves, the two men realize they both are being left for dead and neither one of them will be saved.
Additionally, in the beginning of the story, Lurch thinks to himself, “If only on this wild night, in this dark, lone spot, he might come across George Snazzy, man to man, with none to witness-?? that was the wish that was uppermost in his thoughts. ” This is ironic because not even two minutes later, he then comes face to face with his enemy behind the trunk of a huge beech tree. This turning point results in both men glaring at each other in silence and suddenly becoming caught under the enormous tree, unable cape.