Irony In The Ransom Of Red Chief

In this story and short film, there are a lot of similarities and differences between the two. In The Ransom of Red Chief movie, Bill and Sam kidnapped Red Chief and put him in a box, yet in the story, they tied him up. Another difference is that Red Chief’s name, in the movie, is Andrew. In the story Red Chief’s actual name is Johnny. In the movie, Red Chief runs away but, in the story, Red Chief didn’t leave the cave. Red Chief decided to take Sam and Bill’s car out for a joy ride in the movie. There are a lot of other differences but, there are some similarities too!

In the short story “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry, the character that possesses the most control is Mr. Dorset because he is able to make Bill and Sam agree with his demands even though they are not favorable for them. For example, on lines 317-318, Mr. Dorset is shown to have control over Bill’s decisions when Bill says, “…what’s two hundred and fifty dollars, after all? …Besides being a thorough gentleman, I think Mr. Dorset is a spendthrift for making us such a liberal offer. You ain’t going to let the chance go, are you?” This shows that Mr. Dorset has control over Bill and Sam because his offer, although detrimental to their funds, influences them to comply. This is important because even though the two started out in the story

In the story "ransom of Red Chief" the irony creates humor in the story. For example, the author states "What's $250 after all?" referring to them paying too get rid of Red Chief. I find this ironic and funny, because it is quite strange to see kidnappers paying to get rid of someone they kidnapped.

William Shakespeare wrote the play A Midsummer's Night’s Dream over four hundred years ago. There are three types of irony, dramatic irony, verbal irony, and situational irony. Verbal irony is is when the speaker says the opposite of what they mean. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows more than the character. And situational irony is the opposite of what you think is going to happen happens.

An example of dramatic irony is when Fortunato tells Montresor not to worry about his health and that “the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I will not die of a cough” (POE 238) Montresor then replies, “True–true.” When the reader reads this, they see that Fortunato is clueless of Montresor’s true plan is and while he tells Fortunato he will be all right. That he will not die, he is planning to kill him. This is dramatic because we as the reader feel a sense of sorrow because we know the truth about what will

Irony is described by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “the incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result”. “Ransom of the Red Chief”, as short story written by O. Henry, is full of all types of irony. In this short story a boy, Johnny Dorset, is taken by two kidnappers, Sam and Bill. Ironically, by the end of the story it is the kidnappers who pay ransom to the father. In “Ransom of the Red Chief”, there are many examples of irony which help to enhance the story. Throughout this tale, there are multiple examples of situational, dramatic, and verbal irony.

There are three main types of irony to familiarize yourself with: dramatic irony, situational irony, and verbal irony. Firstly, lets start off with situational irony. Situational irony occurs when the expected outcome does not happen. Situational irony is used in stories to add humorous effects. For example, in the Most Dangerous Game, when Zaroff, the man who hunts people for entertainment, tells Rainsford, the unwilling victim of Zaroff, “We’ll visit my training school… It’s in the cellar. I have about a dozen pupils down there right now” (PG). Basically, Zaroff is not referring to a training school, he is referring to a prison where he keeps his unwilling victims who will eventually be hunted. This quotation shows how dramatic irony affects the tone and the

Irony plays a key role in the events that take place within “The Cask of Amontillado.” There are three different types of irony: verbal, situational, and dramatic. Verbal irony is when something has a different intended meaning then what is said. Situational irony is when what is expected to happen is different then what actually happens. Finally, dramatic irony is when the reader/audience knows something that a character in the story does not. Poe uses each of these types of irony in “The Cask of Amontillado.”

Have you ever read a book with so much irony that it knocks your socks off? Irony takes place in all these stories we are talking about. The Merriam-Webster definition of irony is “the use of words to express something other than, and especially the opposite, of the literal meaning.” These stories will keep you wondering what’s going to happen and when you least expect it, irony will come out of no where and surprise the reader. In the short stories, “The Veldt,” “Just Lather, That’s All,” and “The Ransom of Red Chief,” Irony is active throughout the whole story.

The definition of irony is a contrast between two things. One example is verbal irony. It is a contrast between what someone says and what one means, while dramatic irony is a contrast between what the characters know to be true and what the readers know to be true. Many writers use irony in their short stories to prove a dramatic point, or just to develop a story for upcoming use. These short stories by Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” (140), Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” (183), and Stephen Crane’s “The Blue Hotel” (229), spin a tale of symbolic irony. Each tell a tale paradoxical twists with sublime contradiction where one is led to believe one side of an event, yet it is dragged down a twisted trail of mental sarcasms coupled with death. It is a known fact that many tales of irony require many major events to twist the order they are written in to create a viewpoint that stride away from the main topic or where the author wants the reader to end up.

Throughout the story, “The Open Window”, there are many examples of irony. Irony can be funny, serious, or even scary. There are three types of irony; which are; situational, dramatic, and verbal. Situational is what is expected to happen and what actually happens. Dramatic is when the audience know more about something that is happening than the character does. Finally, verbal is the use of words meaning something different than what they actually mean.

Irony is defined as “a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character:”(“Irony” Entry 3. Oxford Dictionary. November 5th, 2015, Web.) In literature, irony can be used to foreshadow situations about to occur. Irony is a literary technique that can be expressed in 3 different ways. There is Dramatic irony, Situational Irony, and Verbal Irony. Situational irony is defined as, “irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.” ("situational-irony."(Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. 05 Nov.

Julius Lester used irony to make people feel good about themselves. It shows that people not of great strength but of great smarts can defeat anyone. But in his story “Brer Rabbit And Brer Lion” it is hilarious! My favorite part is when Brer Rabbit ties up Brer Lion for lying about a twister coming. It gets even funnier when Brer Lion starts roaring for Brer Rabbit to untie him.

O. Henry has a very unique writing style. He uses various stylistic elements in his stories to create special stories. One of his stylistic elements is situational irony. Situational Irony is when something happens that you did not expects. For example if a cat was chasing a dog that would be situational irony. In "The Ransom of Red Chief" two men kidnap a young boy and hold him for ransom. They keep the boy with them in a cave, but they soon grow to fear him due to his mischievous antics. As O. Henry states, "Just at the moment when i should have been abstracting the fifteen hundred dollars from the box under the tree, according to the original proposition, Bill was counting out two hundred and fifty dollars into Dorset's hand." (p.15). In

There are three forms of irony which include: verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony. Verbal irony is when a character says the opposite of what they mean while situational irony, occurs when the opposite of what the audience expects to happen, happens. Finally, dramatic irony, one of the most common forms of irony found in Julius Caesar, occurs when the audience knows something that the characters do