Situational Irony In The Ransom Of Red Chief

It is said that money is the root of all evil. Geoffrey Chaucer confirms this belief in his narrative The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer addresses a number of issues with human nature as his characters tell their stories on the way to Canterbury. As the host intends to judge the pilgrims’ stories that they write on the way to canterbury. Chaucer's “The Pardoner’s Tale” is a witty and satiric tale containing life, Death, and the influence of greed. It will be pitched against “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, a story containing the experiences of one ‘highly experienced’ woman and her fable describing what women really want out of men. The stories will be evaluated and judged by their moral, entertainment, and effectiveness. While it is

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 differences between the movie and the short story, The Ransom of Red Chief some of the differences are that in the movie Bill and Sam shoved Red Chief into a box and drove away. But, in the story Red Chief was offered candy to come with them. Another difference was that in the short story they all went to a cave to hide, but in the movie they all went to the middle of the woods. Also, in the movie Red Chief ran away from the place they were staying at in the woods. However, in the short story they stayed in the cave, and Red Chief didn’t leave the cave.

Written by Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage is a novel filled with irony. This story is written in the point of view of the main character, Henry Fleming, and tells about his maturation through the war. Including the title, from the beginning to the end of the book there is irony present. The use of irony by Crane helps create a lot of discussion for critics. Henry’s internal debate is a main source of irony in this novel. Also, his fantasy of how he thought war was going to be and how it turned out is ironic.

Geoffery Chaucer is known for the father of poetry, and one of his famous novels from The Canterbury Tales is "The Pardoner's Tale." Personification and irony are used throughout "The Pardoner's Tale. " Death is personified through the entire story. Death is personified as a man who kills and is also a traitor. Death was who killed one of the three rioter's close friend.

There are many examples of irony in “The Pardoner’s Tale”. There are three different kinds of irony. The different ironies are verbal, dramatic, and situational irony. Not only does “The Pardoner’s Tale” give us examples of irony, but blasphemy is also present in the story.

In Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" there are several examples of irony. This story is one of revenge and hate. Not only is there irony but also word play and other subtle comedic aspects in this story to create a, slightly obvious, insane narrator.

In “The Ransom of Red Chief,” by O. Henry uses situational irony to create a sense of humor. For instance, the kidnappers end up paying the father to give the boy, Johnny, back. In the end of “ The Ransom

Personally, the Pardoner’s Tale is one of my favorites. I enjoy the irony in the way the three men “find death.” This irony, however, seems to be present within the Pardoner himself as well. Such as is described in the General Prologue, the Pardoner seems to be one of the best storytellers. He had just told an entire tale about the evils of greed and lust and is now exemplifying these traits.

The author effectively used the humorous element, verbal irony, throughout the story to exhibit a spark of humor. An example of verbal irony the author used in the story is "Forest? Forest is passé, I mean, I've had it with all this wilderness stuff. It's not a right image of our society, today. Let's have some urban for a change", this is ironic because this is the exact opposite of what we are used to.

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.

An exemplum is a narrative that illustrates or supports a moral point much like what was often given in a sermon in the medieval times. In the story “The Pardoners Tale”, the narration the pardoner tells, includes an underlying message which in this case is that greed is the cause of the ruin of society and also the horrible demise of many. The role of a pardoner in Chaucer’s time was to collect money for gracious Christian purposes and to compensate contributors with “absolution” of their sins. In this case this fact is not entirely true coming from this specific pardoner as he admits to keeping much of this money to himself instead of giving it back up to the church. In the story he states, “I preach for nothing but for greed of gain.

All throughout history, people often know they cannot or should not have certain things, but they seek them anyway. Whether in Greek mythology with Pandora’s box or in the Bible with Eve and the forbidden fruit, this idea is certainly not new. This theme is especially prevalent in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, in which Chaucer uses irony to illustrate how people are drawn to certain things, even when they know that these things are not beneficial to them. The pardoner, a man of the Church, clearly knows and regularly preaches about the evils of money, but he desperately searches for it.

Bill says, “‘what's two hundred and fifty dollars, after all? We've got the money. One more night of this kid will send me to a bed in Bedlam’” (O. Henry). This shows how broken they are by the end of it.

“The boy had two large feathers stuck in his hair” (1) The Ransom of Red Chief is about a little boy that gets kidnapped and plays a game with his kidnappers which annoys them. Then, they try to get his father to pay a ransom but it is the kidnappers who end up paying a ransom and run off to get away from the troublesome boy. This short story The Ransom of Red Chief is a low level comedy that uses comical characters and comical situations to convey the idea that people should think before they act. This short story by O. Henry is a low level comedy, because it’s entertaining and has physical mishaps.