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Can anyone tell me the summary of the story the ramson of red cheif for 100 words

Answer 1

The pattern of “The Ransom of Red Chief” is suggested by the first sentence of the story: “It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you.” The story is essentially ironic; in a series of comic reversals, the expected event is replaced by its opposite. From the name of the town where the story takes place, Summit, which is perfectly flat, to the end of the story, where a fat man outruns the thin narrator, that which the narrator anticipates never does occur.

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In the story "The Ransom of Red Chief," explain in about 100 words the main characterwrite a paragraph on the main character in about 100 words

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As the title suggests, the main character of O. Henry's ironic story is the only son of Ebenezer Dorset, the boy who calls himself "Red Chief, the terror of the plains." And, he is, indeed, a terror as he hurls a brick into the face of Bill, one of the kidnappers as he is caught.

Instead of being frightened, Red Chief is delighted to have Bill Driscoll with whom he can pretend to be a wild Indian. Sam, the narrator comments,

Yes, sir, that boy seemed to be having the time of his life. The fun of camping out in a cave had made him forget that he was a captive himself.

Of course, the irony is that Bill in effect becomes the captive and Red Chief the captor as he has Bill hit with rocks, tied, whipped, ridden like a horse, and on the ground with his hair pulled and a knife poised at his scalp. So terrorized by Red Chief is Bill that he tells his partner that one more night of this boy's presence will send him to Bedlam [hospital for the insane in New York].