Situational Irony In The Ransom Of Red Chief

In the short story “Masque of the Red Death”, written by Edgar Allan Poe, it symbolizes irony numerous times throughout the story. One of the often examples of irony is described when the story entails Prince Prospero name as a wealthy prince but ends up dying to the horrifying, twisted, red death, “There was a sharp cry. Fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero”(178). This is especially ironic because his name appears to represents a prince of extraordinary fortunate. Therefore this infers he would have the “the best of luck” but dies due to the horrible plague. While his name is ironic, the rich, noble people at the party also believe that they can elude death but ultimately lead to their demise. In the short story, everyone dies to the

So far there have been 2 adaptations of the story called “the ransom of red chief”. Sad thing is just like every adaption of a story to a movie it always gets slack about the things is different between the two and about the story being better. This there is not a deciding factor about which of these is the better one because they are different but also very similar. Here I’ll show first the differences, in the short story unlike the book they try to sell Johnny candy but in the movie the straight up go up behind the kid and stuffs him in the trunk of their car, While on the subject of his actual kidnapping bill didn’t get hit in the head with a rock in the short story. The next difference was the fact that in the book they took red chief to a cave in

There are many different ways to get you to laugh, and to get other people to laugh. In my book, 101 Ways To Bug Your Teacher, by Lee Wardlaw, the author uses various elements of humor, such as dialect, plot twist, and Irony in my book to make the reader laugh. The end result of my book is hilarious because of how well the author incorporates these elements of humor.

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.

The overall tone of The Red Badge of Courage is Ironic. Irony is the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, commonly for humorous or emphatic effect. Stephen Crane includes many examples of Irony within The Red Badge of courage. One example of irony would be in chapter twelve, Henry was envious of people who earned a Red Badge because they got valor for getting injured during battle, well Henry got a Red Badge for getting hit in the face with the back of a gun by a fellow comrade. A Second example is In Chapter Six, Soldiers say that what they were doing was too much of a good thing to do, yet they were the ones who enlisted to give their lives.

“And now acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each on the despairing posture of his fall” (49). These lines from Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Masque of the Red Death” show the fear that humans have of death and not being in control of their fate. In “Masque of the Red Death”, the theme that death is unavoidable is developed through the use of irony, setting, and symbolism.

The inclusion of humor in writings is one of the essential factors that every author should incorporate for the success of their works. The writings or rather novels with flashes of humor tend to do well in the market for the readers as compared to other writings which are purely comic fictions or without incorporation of humors. Humor facilitate in reader identification, assign positive traits to characters, convey character relationships, delight readers and get them to read the material closely (Column & Us, 2017). Mark Twain and Bellow are some of the renowned American authors that have incorporated the use of senses of humor in their writings and this has made their literature works successful for a long period of time. The paper discusses how the two authors have used humor in their works.

short story “The Ransom of Red Chief” is a low comedy which uses comic situations and irony

Have you ever had something bad happen and something good comes out of it? Two men struggle to make money to make more money, so they decide to kidnap someone and get paid a ransom. Only to have the kid they kidnap be a total pain in the butt and does not want to go home. Eventually they must pay to have the boy returned home. In the short story “The Ransom of the Red Chief” O. Henry portrays a theme of although a situation may seem bad, almost always something good can come out of it.

Usually when you think of kidnapping, you would never imagine the kid wanting to stay with the kidnapper, but that was the case in this story. O. Henry’s high level comedy “The Ransom of Red Chief” uses comic situation and comic character to convey the idea that things don’t always turn out the way that you wanted them to be. An example of comic situation was shown when, “[Johnny] had Bill terrorized from the start.” No one would ever think a kidnapper would be afraid of a little kid. Comic character was shown when, “a freckle-faced boy of ten, with bright red hair[..].”

They thought of a place that they could take the child too called §ummit before many deals of harassment are put to work towards Bill. It all started off with this kid throwing rocks at a cat before Sam and Bill came and yelled at him. They said “Hey kid would you like a bag full of candy and a nice ride?!” But the boy who took a rock of the ground threw it at Bill and hit him straight in the eye. They very soon kidnapped the child even though he put up one heck of a fight. After a while they arrived to summit Johnny

Alexandre Dumas was a master of literature; the sheer artistry in The Count of Monte Cristo makes this abundantly clear. His command of parallelism, his employ of subtle yet vivid characterization, and, most markedly, his frequent use of irony are the evidence. The latter in particular is common and used for a purpose. At times, irony is applied to insert a sliver of humor into otherwise heavy scenes; this is especially true with Dumas’s application of verbal irony. At other times, irony is exercised in order to act as a plot point. Overall, the author’s use of irony is crucial to the story’s progression.

“Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.” ~Eric Idle. In “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry this concept comes to life. The story is about two men kidnapping a young child and karma coming back to bite them in the butt. The two men are Sam and Bill, each is being abused by the child known as Johnny but goes by Red Chief. Sam and Bill ask for a ransom of $2,000, but they end up paying Johnny’s dad to take him back because they cannot go on with the abuse anymore. The concept stated by Eric Idle applies to this tale because people fear kidnapping which makes no sense because the way some people treat it causes psychosomatic and paranoid mindsets about it and yet we pretend it does. The comedy in “The Ransom of Red Chief” points out that it is an irrational fear. In this short story humor is added to an everyday fear, kidnapping, by using comic characters, situations, and language.

In the horror, short story, “Suffer the little children” written by Stephen King, in 1972, King begins his story with a remarkable presentation of the protagonist

In the short story,The Ransom of Red Chief , Red Chief acts invery mischievous ways. Throughout the dialogue, author’s descriptions, and scenes in the film, O. Henry demonstrates Red Chief’s mischievous and naughty behavior. In the end, if Red Chief didn’t cause as much trouble as he did, the story wouldn’t be the same.