“More than 2,000 kids are kidnapped per day” like Johnny Dorset in the short story “The Ransom red chief” he gets kidnapped by Sam or the Red chief, so Sam could get money from the kidnapped boy's dad but instead he pays the dad 250$ to get the kid off his hands. In the story “The ransom red chief” the author O’Henry portrays the theme, “one who has bad intention could be blinded by their own darkness. In the story the two characters Sam and Bill show the theme “one who has bad intentions could be blinded by their own darkness.” First Sam has bad intentions by kidnapping Jonny who is Ebenezer Dorset’s little boy. He does this because he and his friend just, “Needed just two thousand dollars more for an illegal land deal in Illinois.” So they …show more content…
think that the father of Johnny, “would pay a ransom of two thousand dollars to get his boy back.” This portrays the theme by showing he didn’t have good intentions. The next way Sam moves on with his plans are when he kidnapped the 10 year old boy and took him to the cave. He sent a letter saying, "We have your boy hidden in a place far from Summit. We demand fifteen hundred dollars for his return.” He also told the father where to put the money and the dad sends his messenger back saying, “You bring Johnny home and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars, and I agree to take him off your hands.” Sam had no more patients for the boy and slowly realized he was getting karma for stealing little Johnny. The last term of events was when Sam and Bill decided to bring Johnny back to the father and pay 250$ to get the the nuisance off his back. The boy was being a pest for example, “...
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.” this was only half of the consequences for kidnapping the kid, he didn’t get to go to the illegal land deal because they had to pay all of their money back to the father. Sam ended up getting blinded by their own darkness, portraying the theme “one who has bad intentions could be blinded by his own darkness.”Secondly, Bill, Sam’s partner, gets blinded by his darkness to because he steals Johnny for money. He does this because he also wants to go to the, “ an illegal land deal in Illinois.” He distracts the child and he and Sam take him to,” the cave.” This wasn't a pleasant task for bill because the boy,”put up a fight like a wild animal.” An example of the consequences would be when Bill was,”rolling up his pants and examining wounds on his legs.” This was only one of the wounds he got, this showed the theme because he was injured during the dark process of nabbing Johnny. The next way Bill got his payback was when he had almost gotten killed by the boy because the child wanted something, “ sitting on Bill's chest, with one hand holding his hair. In the other, he had a sharp
knife. He was attempting to cut off the top of Bill's head.” shortly after Bill was released from Johnny”s grasp is when he realized taking the child was more work than he had expected, showing the theme because his bad intentions almost got the top of his head cut off. The last way Bill portrays the theme “one who has bad intentions could be blinded by their own darkness” is when he loses the money he had previously worked for in a sensible way. When he realized the child didn’t want to go home, he was scared and took the easy way out by accepting the father's offer,” You bring Johnny home and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars, and I agree to take him off your hands.” When he offered this Bill lost his money and got lost in the shadows that he had reflected himself. Furthermore, major events in the story showed the theme, “one who has bad intentions could be blinded by their own darkness. In the story Sam and bill needed money to go to an,”illegal land deal in Illinois” which backfired on them when they didn't get to go because they didn't get the money in a civilized way. For example Sam said,” It looked like a good thing. But wait till I tell you.” This is saying that Sam and Bill regret the way they got the money because it was consequential. The next major event in the short story was when the two boys decided to kidnap a boy named Johnny. They went through with this by luring him with a,” bag of candy and a nice ride." The child fell for the boys tricks and they took him,” him up to the cave.” The two boys got blinded by their own darkness because the child, “hits Bill directly in the eye with a piece of rock,” and,”was attempting to cut off the top of Bill's head.” Bill and Sam got what they deserved for taking the child away from his family. The last major event was the bargaining between the father and Sam. For example, Sam offered Ebenezer Dorset, “ fifteen hundred dollars for his return.” The father responded with,”You bring Johnny home and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars, and I agree to take him off your hands.” This counter proposal was accepted by the boys because they could take care of the child. They lost all of their 250$ they had saved because they had bad intentions and their supposedly good idea had caught them off guard showing the theme, “one who has bad intention could be blinded by their own darkness.”In conclusion, the “Ransom Red chief” has the theme “one who has bad intention could be blinded by their own darkness” and portrayed that through the bad intentions of the boys and the way they were misled by those bad intentions.
In the Movie, “Ransom of Red Chief”, and in the book, there are some similarities and some differences. The first difference was Red Chief, or better known as Johnny. In the movie he was a small, blonde headed little boy, but in the story he was a small, red headed little boy with a bunch of freckles. In addition to that in the movie the kidnappers, bill and Sam, took red chief to the woods and set up camp, but in the book it states that they, bill, Sam, and red chief, slept in a cave and camped there. Last but not least was red chief. In the movie red chief also stole bill and Sam’s car and he also put a snake in bill’s bed, but in the story he did neither of those things.
The boy is a symbol of hope for the future of the world and he is proof that some humanity still exists in this dark world. The thief sees this in the boy, since McCarthy describes him seeing something “very sobering” to him in the child’s face. The boy wants to be the good guy so badly that he does not want to hurt their enemies, a fairness that the father finds hard to advocate. The boy symbolizes hope and the innocence and goodness in this new and acrid world. The goodness in the boy is one even his father cannot understand; a goodness buried deep within the boy.
“Greg sat in the small, pale green kitchen listening, knowing the lecture would end with his father saying he couldn’t play ball with the Scorpions.” This made Greg very sad, causing him to go for a walk when he broke into the house where he met Lemond Brown and he encountered some new things such as the neighborhood thugs. “They banged around noisily, calling for the rag man. “We heard you talking about your treasure.” The voice slurred.
The Hunt for Red October takes place during the Cold War, causing much distrust and deceit. Marko Alexandrovich Ramius, a Lithuanian submarine commander in the Soviet Navy and son of a prominent Soviet politician, intends to defect to the United States with his officers on board the experimental nuclear submarine Red October. The Red October is a Typhoon-class vessel equipped with a revolutionary stealth propulsion system that makes audio detection by sonar extremely difficult. Immediately evident to Jack Ryan, a high-level CIA analyst, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Red October is a strategic weapon that is capable of sneaking its way into American waters and launching nuclear missiles with little or no warning. The strategic value of Red October was apparent to Ramius, but other factors drove his decision to defect. His wife, Natalia, died at the hands of an incompetent doctor who went unpunished because he was the son of a Soviet political member. Her untimely death, combined with Ramius' long-standing dissatisfaction with the cruelty of Soviet rule and his fear of Red October's destabilizing effect on world affairs, ended his tolerance of the Soviet system.
At first glance, the readers have preconceived ideas that the story’s theme is one of a positive nature. One anticipates that there will be a character with good fortune; however, once reading it only becomes evident in the middle of the story. Readers begin to understand that he person who has the misfortune, the colored paper, is stoned to death in front of the whole community. This is evident when it states, “It had a black spot on it, the black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before…there was a stir in the crowd” (Jackson 249). This quote emphasis’s the negative connotation related to the black dot, which makes readers aware of the detriments related. Its relevance leads readers to understanding the development of the drama. Within the Hutchinson’s family, the mother, Tessie Hutchinson, is the victim to the lottery that
After being beat up by Toadvine, the kid is asked to help Toadvine kill Old Sidney. The kid agrees to help Toadvine and they go into the hotel. In the hotel they go up to Old Sidney’s room and catch it on fire. When they do Old Sidney runs out and Toadvine starts beating him. Toadvine begin to pry the eyeball out of Old Sidney’s eye and is holding him down when he says to the kid “aw, kick him, honey”, and so the kid kicked old Sidney (McCarthy, 13). The clerk then runs upstairs and says “Toadvine you son of a bitch” (McCarthy, 13). When he does Toadvine kicks him in the throat and he falls down the steps. The kid, while walking down the steps, kicks the already wounded clerk further down the stairs. The kid was never provoked by anything to treat the clerk the way he did. Such unprovoked violence can only come from a person that is born evil. After that the kid, showing no remorse, jumps over the clerk and heads out the door to continue his mindless acts of violence
“These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities. They were filled with rage. All they really knew were two darkness’s, the darkness of their lives, which were now closi...
To focus deeper on imagery it paints a very dark thought at first about how a father physically abuses his kid in front of the mom. This shows how good the author is at writing and how he ties in the theme to the poem. A line that is so misinterpreted is, “At every step you missed, my right ear scraped a
Walker uses the positive imagery of “The Flowers” at the beginning of the novel to set up a naïve, sweet world in which a gruesome appearance of the lynched victim turns out to a reasonably unexpected, shocking event that robs Myop of her innocence. The first half of the text focuses on Myop’s childlike innocence with sweet kinesthetic imagery of Myop feeling “good and warm in the sun” to hit specifically on Myop’s childlike inhibitions. In the same case, sweet and gentle visual imagery continues to play in the first few paragraphs of a happy agricultural lifestyle where “each day a golden surprise” and a ten year old girl like Myop could “skip lightly from her house to pigpen” and bounce “this way and that way”. Myop’s joyful rapping of the stick that goes “tat-de-ta-ta-ta” enables auditory imagery to play on a merry sort of onomatopoeia that goes strongly with Myop’s innocence. Imagery had little direct prepa...
At the beginning Bud is sad and scared about events he goes through. Bud was sad because of what happened to his mom when he was six years old. In the story, Bud states “Six is real tough. That’s how old I was when I came to live here at the Home. That’s old I was when momma died.” Bud becomes sad because he has no one to look up to. He has no family that he knows and Bud doesn’t know his own dad. Bud doesn’t know where his family is. Bud is also scared because when he was at the Amos’ house and they locked him in the shed. According to the text “Even though it was night time there was a whole different, scarier kind of dark in the shed. A colder dark with more grays and more shadows.” Bud is scared of the dark shed because there is pile of dirt that looked like blood on the dirt. There is fish heads on the door that had razor sharp teeth. Bud also saw what looked like a vampire bat hanging from
Keeping your mouth shut, or zipped, is one way to keep the other side guessing. No matter how much they try to get you involved, if you can stay quiet and give nothing away, then you are in control of the negotiations. In "The Ransom of the Red Chief", O. Henry tells the story of the spoilt little rich boy who is kidnapped and held for a large ransom. Instead of giving in, the parents don't react at all to the ransom demands. As time goes by, they even feign a loss of interest in the boy's fate. The kidnappers meanwhile become so exasperated with the boys' antics and their unexpectedly long baby-sitting stint that they finally pay the parents to take the boy back!
The child’s game had ended. After I nearly ran Kurtz over, we stood facing each other. He was unsteady on his feet, swaying like the trees that surrounded us. What stood before me was a ghost. Each layer of him had been carved away by the jungle, until nothing remained. Despite this, his strength still exceeded that of my own. With the tribal fires burning so close, one shout from him would unleash his natives on me. But in that same realization, I felt my own strength kindle inside me. I could just as easily muffle his command and overtake him. The scene flashed past my eyes as though I was remembering not imagining. The stick that lay two feet from me was beating down on the ghost, as my bloodied hand strangled his cries. My mind abruptly reeled backwards as I realized what unspeakable dark thoughts I had let in. Kurtz seemed to understand where my mind had wandered; it was as though the jungle’s wind has whispered my internal struggles to him. His face twisted into a smile. He seemed to gloat and enjoy standing by to watch my soul begin to destroy itself.
The teacher uses darkness as a representation of the future that was awaiting the students. Darkness in the future is commonly used to describe hopelessness and despair, just like his brothers situation. Additionally, the fact that the teacher thinks that his students are thinking about drugs as he teaches algebra only emphasizes the hopelessness in the society because the kids are supposed to be future leaders and role models. The teacher begins to perceive that the students’ laughter was not a joyous one but that of insular mocking. The teacher’s perception of the children’s’ laughter further shows the theme of hopelessness as one expects a teacher to associate kids’ laughter with happiness, but he associates it with a curse. The teacher doesn't has much faith in humanity or in others, because of the
But as a shadow flicks between buildings or a faraway window is shattered, a little voice speaks up telling you to run. It’s the awareness that, as a human being, you are no longer the apex predator- you are the prey. Now that little voice is screaming at me that something isn’t right. I should listen to it- I should really listen to it but the only thing running through my mind is that nothing will ever be right about the world now, and maybe nothing ever was. After weeks of contemplating the possibility of me being the singular survivor of an apocalypse that came too soon, the presence of this a blue-eyed boy assures me that I am not alone. The boy’s hand is clasped at the wound as I watch blood seep through his fingers and drip off his elbow onto the tiled floor. I am suddenly in awe of the events that have lead me up to this point in time; the events that have placed me here, standing on the broken glass of an abandoned convenience store’s window, pointing a gun towards a
In the beginning the Monsieur ran his carriage over a little child. With dismay and an ill looking face the child’s father cradled the boy while Monsieur was throwing shillings at him. Despair and anger filled the air, yet not a soul knew what the father was about to do. A while later a barrel, full of wine, spilt and out came hundreds of people attempting to drink it up. The same man with the deceased child was there and with the wine he spelt out “BLOOD” on the wall. This was a clue of what was coming but it did not fully tell you of what that was.