Analysis OfThe Storyteller, And The Ransom Of Red Chief

When solving a conflict, a common first reaction is seeking out the foe and battling them to the death. Wait… that’s not right. Violence is a rash and vacuous way of dealing with one's problems. Saki’s short story, “The Interlopers”, focuses around an old family feud. It explores how greed and selfishness can lead characters to their demise. The story also exhibits the saying, “to little, too late”. The conflict and theme of this story make it a suspenseful and well-thought out piece of literature.

Short stories range from fantasy to realistic plots. They give a full range of emotions and feelings that tell a story. Some short stories have a sorrowful mood, but are filled with hope and persistent characters. The short story, “The Scarlet Ibis”, has a sorrowful storyline, but throughout gives you hope. In the short story , “The Scarlet Ibis”, the brother is illustrated as selfish, devoted, and hopeful of his brother Doodle, through the use of figurative language, and diction.

We have been assigned many great stories to read while in this class. In this paper we will cover and analyze three different short stories and quickly compare and contrast things they have in common. This paper will analyze “A Rose for Emily”, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, and “The Cask of Amontillado”. We will analyze the different symbolism throughout all the stories such as “the elusive definition of a good man” which comes from “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, also themes in the different stories like traditions people follow, and the power that death has.

One is a story of revenge and murder, the other a story of greed and materialism. On the surface, the short stories appear quite different, but at their heart, a similar drive beats within the three main characters, determining their actions and altering the pathways of their lives. “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe is a story of the proud Montresor, obsessed with getting revenge on the foolish Fortunato. “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, is a story of a beautiful woman who felt she belonged to an upper class but was forced to live a banal, ordinary life. While the plots of these two short stories are different, the central characters all share the overarching quality of an obsessive pride— hubris. This hubris comes in many

When red chief is kidnapped and taken to the cave instead of crying and attempting to escape from the cave, he is in the cave having the time of his life. He played a game the whole time where he gave everyone a nickname he called himself master chief b and billy was named snake eye, they were all Indians that is what was going through his mind the whole entire time. Even though red chief is away from family he talks about how boring it is to be at home and how he does not want them to take him back home “‘when the kid found out we were going to leave him at home, he started up a howl like a calliope … and fastened himself (pg.53 When red chief's father wrote back to SAM and Billy saying that the money, they had requested

Stories and movies can be similar, in this case Ransom of Red Chief and Home Alone are very similar. One similar event that states on page 63, “He points a stick at me when I come up and says, Ha, damned paleface! Do you dare to enter the camp of Red Chief, the terror of the plains”(O’ Henry 63)? This illustrates that Red Chief uses very strong language to scare and defend himself for a boy his age. A similar event happened in Home Alone, when Harry and Marv were on the ground Kevin yelled, come get me you morons. Kevin ran away knowing that they would follow him into another one of his many

The short stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, and “Bartleby, The Scrivener” by Herman Melville, are about two outcasts and their interactions with society. Moreover the authors use common themes and similar mannerisms bringing their characters to life. Each story has different key details, and perspectives, while they communicate the same overall premise.In both “A Rose for Emily” and “Bartleby, The Scrivener”, they share many similarities, and each have key differences that conversely set them apart.

In the short story, “Ransom of Red Chief” and the film, “Home Alone” there are characters with many similar character traits. One similar character trait that both Kevin and Red Chief have is that they are sneaky. On page 73 the author said, “Then you might turn around,’ says I, ‘and have a look behind you.’ Bill turns and sees the boy.” This explains the character trait because Red Chief had snuck up behind Bill without him knowing . In the film, “Home Alone” there is a scene when Kevin quietly puts a BB gun to one of the robbers leg. This proves the character trait because Kevin had snuck a BB gun out the doggy door and shot the robber without the robber knowing. The criminals in the short story, “Ransom of Red Chief” and in the film, “Home Alone” also have similar character traits. One similar character trait the criminals have is that they are both confident. In the short story, “Ransom of Red Chief” it states, “We knew that Summit couldn’t come after us with anything stronger than the police and maybe some lazy bloodhounds.” This explains the character trait because the criminals were confident with kidnapping the boy, because of the poor law enforcement. It states in the movie, “Home Alone” that the criminals were more confident when they realized that Kevin was the only one in the house. This reveals the character trait was right because the criminals had become more confident in themselves when they realized that Kevin, a kid, was the only one

In this paper there will be a comparison and contrast of two stories that coincide with the chosen multicultural theme. The multicultural theme that was chosen for this analysis is as follows, respect for tradition, family and place of origin. The stories that have great similarities with the thesis are "In the Shadow of War" by Ben Okri and The Village by Estela Portillo Trambley. Both of these stories share a few common purposes which are respect for family, tradition and place of origin. Multicultural literature can be great for the mind and heart breaking at the same time. These stories both reflect on two different men and their morals in a situation of mandatory action and optional action. Both stories tell how two people’s judgments or respect for tradition family and place of origin can make a huge change in themselves and others.

It is interesting to see how works of anonymous origin, can have such an impact on the society in which it is created up to the present, while not being deemed as scholarly literature. The human condition of being emotionally, selfish beings is something that is not purely tied with that of serious literature. When scanning the realm of scholarly works The Thousand and One Nights makes an appearance, ironically. To have a such a source of knowledge from many different countries over a long period of time is a literature goldmine, which demands to be studied. There is a element of surprise when the author -or in this case authors- create more than just a descriptive narrative. Together they alluded to each-other, enhanced each other’s works, and created a world that seems to never end. One might simply think that to write a story-within-a-story is simply a device to make a narrative interesting. It is rather a way of teaching the characters and the audience how not to repeat history through an allegorical framework established in the prologue and through the extended anthropomorphism of in The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey.

In this case it will be analyzed two stories from the text which are walking on the tiger road and read out Sunday. In this two stories it can be noticed the use of tale which is a kind of short story that presents events of a culture in a dramatic and narrative form. The first story has the part of a short story, because it has a climax which was from the beginning, it is stablished how a homosexual person deals with himself, family, friends, and society. There is a society that does not permit this, so they try to kill him and the confused part is that most of the people who were judging were homosexual too. This story presents the reality of many people who cannot express what they want, as a foreigner is a big contrast how people deal with this topic. In my country homosexuality is not accepted yet, but there is a balance which is if a person is homosexual this person will not be killed or abused people just should respect others even though they have other

“We talked in facts—work and weather, the logistics of this fence, that field—but stories were how we spoke. A good story rose to the surface of a conversation like heavy cream, a thing to be savored and served artfully. Stored in dry wit, wrapped in dark humor, tied together with strings of anecdote, these stories told the chronology of a family, the history of a piece of land, the hardships of a certain year or a span of years, a series of events that led without pause to the present” (135).

Have you ever thought you could win it all or do everything yourself and promptly found out that you cannot? Found that it’s too much and you cannot in fact handle it all on your own and that you bit off more than you can chew? In the story “The Ransom of Red Chief,” two men thought they might just kidnap a young boy, order a ransom be paid, get paid and go home however this adventure proved to be much more than just that. In the short story, "The Ransom of Red Chief," the author, O. Henry, portrays the theme to not bite off more than you can chew.

In most classic American tales, the story ends on a positive note- the boy gets the girl, the bad guy becomes good, the poor become wealthy. However, throughout the course of this semester we have read various works from French author’s who do not follow this same approach. Instead, these author’s end their stories in a realistic manner that are not necessarily happy, but can relate to the reader’s own life experiences. In The Necklace, The Miser, and The tress of Hair, we read endings that do not meet our expectations of a happy ending, and instead concretely teach us that we cannot always expect the best in life.

There is a similarity between the movie and the short story. The main theme that is showed throughout the movie Home Alone and the short story called The Ransom of Red Chief is bravery. In the short story on page sixty two it states “That boy put up a fight like a boxing bear. At last we got him down in the bottom of the buggy and drove away” (O. Henry 62). This shows that even though Red Chief was a little boy going up against two men that he was not scared to try to fight back and get away. In the movie Home Alone Kevin was being very brave when he found out that his parents and his family had left him home alone (Home Alone). Another time that Kevin was being brave was when the bad guys were trying to get into the house and he defended his house by doing stuff to keep them from getting inside (Home Alone). This shows that Kevin is a very brave child and that he would be able to live out in the real world on his own.