'The Ransom Of Red Chief'

Children. They can take over the world. In the short story The Ransom of Red Chief, Johnny Dorset take.s over his kidnappers and makes them run away. They kidnapped him to get ransom. Their kidnappers feel regrets. In the short story, the man in the casket, Beth Cassavell deals with the grief of her grandfather dying. She has regret because she was always been rude to her grandfather. Both stories have to deal with regret. Kidnappers, they think their so smart. In reality, the kid can be the smart one. This is proved in the story, “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry. In the story the two main characters, Bill Driscoll and Sam Driscoll, kidnap Johnny Dorset in order to make a profit. Most of the time when children get kidnapped there will

See, people feel instant regret when they die. This is definitely shown in the short story, The man in the casket by Beth Cassavell. In this story, Beth loses her grandfather. At first she didn’t mind because he was always rude to her. Everytime she had to hang out with him, they had a huge fight. IN the story it states, “‘“The ra…ra…” “Rain.” “Don’t you tell me what rain is. I’ve lived through hurricanes and downpours you could only imagine!” he snapped at me. “The rain gently fa…” “Falling,” I interjected impatiently. “ This shows how Beth was just trying to help out her grandfather, he never really got to appreciate her. In the story it states, ““I’ve had just about enough from you. You know, you can be so unpleasant and downright obnoxious sometimes?” my grandfather said. “You’re a spoiled brat.” Bluntness was always an annoying quality of his. “You never smile. You should try to be more like your cousin. Rebecca. She doesn’t have half as much as you have and she’s always smiling and laughing.”” He does the ultimate insult by comparing her to her “perfect” cousin. When the grandfather died though, it was a different story. In the story when she was looking at her dead grandfather in the casket it states, ““Why do you always do this to me? Why? Why did you have to be so stubborn and unfriendly, so impatient and unloving? Why couldn’t you love me? Why?” I stopped. I realized. I cried. “ She now realized that he did love her, he wanted her to be happy and she