Hyperboles In The Ransom Of Red Chief

“Just then, I heard a heavy sound and a deep breath from Bill. A rock the size of an egg had hit him just behind his left ear.” (pg 3/3)This story is about kidnappers that need a little extra cash for an illegal land deal. So, they decided to kidnap a boy and send a ransom note, but their little plan gets turned back on them. O. Henry's short story, ‘The Ransom of Red Chief,' is a low-level comedy that uses comic situations and hyperboles to convey the idea that life will not always give you the easy way out. This story is a low comedy because although it isn't a guffaw laughter type of story, there are more elements of low comedy than there is high comedy such as to entertain instead of persuade, it focused on the plot and not the individual characters instead of giving detail of what the characters looked

This text evidence uses a pancake to describe the features of the town in a fun way. "There was a town down there, as flat as a pancake, and called Summit." (pg 1/3) An use of hyperboles here and there is a fun way of describing what things look like in an exaggerated way. They wouldn't make you laugh out loud, but it would make a smile or just a thought of that's a cute way of describing it.'The Ransom of Red Chief,' uses the humor element, hyperboles, to exaggerate the appearance. The Universal Truth or moral of the story is everything is not what seems. The quote states how the ransom note is turned back on them because his dad knows that his son is a difficult brat. "You bring Johnny back, and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars, and I agree to take him off your hands." Johnny was so bratty, even his own father knew that they'd pay the ransom and return his son. The low-level comedy story by O. Henry, uses comic situations and hyperboles to demonstrate life won't always give you the easy way out of things in