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The boy in 'The Ransom of Red Chief' is very spoiled and hyperactive. The boy is kidnapped but they are fooled because they end up having to pay the boy's father to take him back.
it was Andy in the movie. And Johnny in the book
The red Cheif is Jonny the boy sam and bill took
It is: You get what you deserve, because its like karma when they kidnap the boy
In "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry, the kidnappers agree to pay a ransom to the boy's father to take him back because the boy, Red Chief, turns out to be too much for them to handle due to his mischievous and troublesome behavior. They end up being the ones who pay to have him taken off their hands.
The story you are referring to is "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry. It is a humorous tale about two kidnappers who end up wanting to pay a ransom to return the mischievous and troublesome boy they kidnapped.
In "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry, the kidnappers hide the boy, Johnny Dorset, in a cave in the hills near the town of Summit, in Alabama. They hope to ransom him for a large sum of money, but their plan backfires when Johnny turns out to be a handful.
"The Ransom of Red Chief" is the title of the story about a naughty boy written by O. Henry.
The resolution is that the boy is returned to his father, and the kidnappers escape.
the sentence with the word ransom in the book "the ransom of red chief" is "the kid was a boy of ten, with bas- relief freckles and hair the color of the cover of the magazine you buy at the newsstand when you want to catch a train. bill and me figured that Ebenezer would melt down for a RANSOM of two thousand dollars to a cent.
In "The Ransom of Red Chief," the kidnappers are ultimately unable to collect the ransom for the boy because he proves to be such a handful and drives them crazy. Instead, they end up paying the boy's father to take him back. The story humorously illustrates that the boy was so mischievous and troublesome that his captors were relieved to be rid of him, making him an unlikely "hero" who wins in the end.
Bill and Sam signed the ransom note as two desperate men in "The Ransom of Red Chief" because they wanted to let the boy's father know who to contact for the ransom. They needed the father to know where to send the money in order to secure the boy's release.