External Conflicted In The Ransom Of The Red Chief

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External conflicted in “The Ransom of the Red Chief” Everyone has suffered the consequences for their actions. In “the Ransom of the Red Chief” by O. Henry, he tells a story of two kidnappers, Bill and Sam and they kidnap Jonny who is so much of a hand full instead receive money from a ransom they payed money for the boy to too return home. O. Henry brings to light an external conflicted between Bill and Jonny therefor resulting in an unexpected ending drawn out with situational irony, of which the characters did not foresee the unexpected consequence of their actions. In the same aspect, the external conflict between bill and Jonny brings a rivalry of fury and hatred. In the short story it states, “I jumped up to see what the matter was,

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