i need this answer too, along with verbal irony. please help(:
Ransom of the Red Chief is a short story by O Henry.
O. Henry
The story "The Ransom of Red Chief" was written by O. Henry, a pen name for American writer William Sydney Porter. This humorous short story was first published in 1907.
The malapropism in "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry is when the kidnappers refer to their victim as wild Indian not wild child.
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.
An example of one allusion in "Ransom of Red Chief" is "By Geronimo!",(40).
The exposition is the introduction of the story. When the narrator tells the reader about his plan to kidnap a child to get money.
Henry Ransom died on 1987-12-21.
Henry Ransom was born on 1911-02-25.
in the story ransom red chief by o Henry, the problem was that sam and bill needed 2000 more dollars for their next scheme.but later they have to deal with the problem of a little boy named jhonny who in ruining their lives
"The Ransom of Red Chief" is the title of the story about a naughty boy written by O. Henry.