Comparing The Poem Of Red Chief Story And Movie

The famous Australian classic ‘Red Dog’ directed by Kriv Stenders and legendary 1940’s novel ‘Lassie Come Home’ by Eric Knight both explore the themes of loyalty, determination and perseverance in order to bring the stories to life through literary devices such as setting, characterisation and conflicts. Both ‘Red Dog’ and ‘Lassie Come Home’ are based on true stories secretly educating the reader about how precious life is. The phenomenal film ‘Red Dog’ is about a well-known kelpie who unites the Pilbara community all the more in search for his long lost master throughout the Australian Outback. On the other hand, ‘Lassie Come Home’ is about a faithful tri coloured collie who sets forth to re-join her beloved family while encountering great dangers throughout the lengthy journey back to Yorkshire, England.

Dumont’s The Red & White is an excellent showcase of her abilities to instil a poignant and ever-relevant criticism in captivating and provoking prose. The Red & White addresses the pressure and problems associated with conforming to societal expectations. The poem articulates the staple items bleach and soup bones as symbols of the lifestyle expected of the archetypal Aboriginal family; bleach to clean with and soup bones to cook with, neither evoking luxury or success but quiet subsistence. ‘Mary’ seeks only to lead a perfectly respectable low income existence in The Red & White, Dumont revisits the trope of respectability as the saviour in another poem on female disempowerment; Squaw Poems.

Both Kevin and Red Chief were boisterous characters in their stories. While Kevin and Red Chief may have some similarities they also have a large amount of differences. one of these differences is the fact that Kevin is a caring character while Red Chief is a violent character. An example from the movie Home Alone showing that Kevin is caring is the scene where he is talking to his neighbor telling him to call his son and make up with him (Home Alone). this shows that Kevin can be a kind person as well as a obstreperous person. He can be a nice person when he needs to be, unlike Red Chief. In the story Red Chief it says, “ I remembered that Red Chief had said I was to be burned at the stake at dawn”(O’Henry 65). This evidence shows that Red Chief was willing to torture or kill Sam. He didn't care that he was hurting other people, physically and mentally, with his actions. There are also some similar character traits shared between the criminals in both stories. The antagonist in both stories could be described as greedy. In the story Ransom of Red Chief it states,” Bill and me figured that we could shake down Ebenezer for a ransom of two thousand dollars to the last cent”(O’Henry 62). This highlights the fact that bill and Sam wanted to get money from kidnapping Red Chief. They wanted an absurd amount of money from Ebenezer which caused them misfortune in the long run. In the movie Home Alone when the robbers try to steal things from the McCallister

The story of where the red fern grows is different in the movie than in the book. This essay is portraying all what was missed in the movie and what was in the movie but was not in the book. I am going to start out by saying all of the things that were in the movie but not in the book, from the beginning of the story to the end of the story

The characters are very similar in both stories. Also in both, there is a conflict between two men and boy, and the boy ends up overpowering them. There are also contrasting conflicts presented by the boys in each story. Kevin in Home Alone outsmarts and hurts the men until the cops come. This is shown in the clip from Home Alone where johnny says “You guys give up? Or are you hungry for more? *throws paint cans at robbers head*” Whereas johnny in “Ransom of Red Chief” messes around and annoys the men until they give him back. We can see this on page 5 of “Ransom of Red Chief” “"He put a red-hot potato down my back," explained Bill, "and then crushed it with his foot. I hit his ears. Have you got a gun with you, Sam?". These boys behavior also leads to the main conflict in both stories.

There is a theme that is for both the movie and the short story that connects them together. The theme for both “Ransom of Red Chief” and “Home Alone” would be Don't let anyone take advantage of you or your things. Evidence that supports this theme on page 64 “Now and then he would let out a war whoop that made Old hank the Trapper shake. That boy had bill terrorized from the start.” This shows home Red Chief got back at Bill and soon to be Sam for kidnapping him and so did Kevin in Home Alone. In Home Alone Kevin had Marv terrorize the same as Bill. Kevin scares Marv throughout the movie by torturing him with his traps.(Home Alone) Red chief scared and torchured Bill by riding him 90 miles on his back. They both scare and hurt the

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

Henry is day dreaming about his life back home. He is thinking about everything he left behind. He comes to when soldiers start yelling the enemy soldiers are coming. Henry is immediately nervous, like most of the soldiers. The lieutenant yells instructions for them. They all get lined up ready for battle.

In the beginning of Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, Henry Fleming, or the “youthful private,” is a farm-boy who to enlist in the Union army. The novella begins after Henry has joined the 304th New York regiment, encampment in Virginia. The month is May 1863, two years after the Civil War has already begun, and the stage is set for the upcoming Battle of Chancellorsville. Through the course of the weeks leading to his first battle, Henry is brought to question himself and face the reality of war. Through the use of irony, the literary point of view, and naturalism, Crane gives the reader a look into the reality of war through Henry Fleming’s perspective.

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

Langston Hughes wrote the poem “Harlem” in 1951 and Kay Ryan wrote the poem “Turtle” in 1994. These two poems have many different similarities that be seen throughout them. Although they are 43 years apart they share similar overall meanings. Life is full of depression and there are many things weighing you down as life goes on.

Boom! Boom! That’s the sound of a gun going off at war and a life perhaps being taken. Whenever a war occurs we usually never think about the benefits of it nor the disadvantages of it. In Harry Kemp’s poem, “I sing the Battle”, he expresses both aspects of the war with the use of explicit figurative language.

Character traits show the good and the bad in characters and their true traits come out when the are faced with diversity in a situation. There are many similarities in the book, Ransom of Red Chief and the movie, Home Alone including the characters. Kevin and Johnny both share the quality of being mischievous. In Ransom of Red Chief it states, “The boy looked as though he was ready to smash him with a rock half as big as a coconut. ‘He put a red-hot potato down my back,’ explained Bill. ‘Then mashed it with his foot’”(O’Henry 66). This shows that Red Chief is a handful and unpredictable. He has a creative imagination and likes to play Indian so he does stuff that Indians would do not realizing that you shouldn’t do that to people because he is to caught up in his game.

In the other he had a sharp knife we used from slicing bacon. He was trying very hard and with great realism to scalp Bill. That was the sentence that Bill was givin the evening before.” For the movie my evidence where he is mouthy is where his mom told him to go to the extra room in the attic, Kevin tells his mom he doesn’t want to see or have a family again. Criminals in the Ransom of Red Chief is the two con-men, they kidnapped Red Chief and told the father if he don’t pay them the money or the son may hurt or harmd. In the text it states “We demand fifteen hundred dollars in large bills… If you pay the money as demanded he will be returned to you safe and well within three hours. These terms are final. If you do not agree to them, we won’t try to reach you again. Criminals in the movie Home Alone are the two robbers and one pretends to be a cop to scoop out the house then when the family leaves for Paris they try to rob the house. Both criminals have same traits because they are both trying to get some what a form of money out of it.

Theme is the moral or lesson of the story. The theme that stands out in both Ransom of Red Chief and Home Alone is that looks can be deceiving. On page 62 of Ransom of Red Chief, the author states, “The kid was a freckle-faced boy of ten with freckles that stood out”(O’Henry). This shows that even though Johnny seemed like a little innocent boy, he turned out to be an even greater terror than the criminals who kidnapped him. In Home Alone, Kevin comes across as harmless and looks as though he can’t defend himself(Home Alone). In reality he not only lived by himself, but also defended his house by outsmarting and defeating two grown criminals. Therefore both boys turned out to be quite the opposite of what one would presume based on their looks.