“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…
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
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.
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
To begin with, after sending a ransom note, the two men get a return message back from the father of the boy, stating that he will gladly take the boy from the men if they pay him 250 dollars. In his note, the father writes that if “you bring Johnny home and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars in cash, and I agree to take him off your hands. You had better come at night, for the neighbours believe he is lost, and I couldn’t be responsible for what they would do to anybody they saw bringing him back” (TRORC, pg. 14, par. 3). This is contrary to what the men originally want, as they are expecting payment, rather than having to pay the father of the boy. They were originally sure that they could get easy money out of the deal. They believe all of this based on the fact that the father, and not on the boy himself. In addition to getting a return message that dashes their hopes of getting easy money, the two men decide to return the boy and pay the 250 dollars, contrary to their original plan. After receiving the note, Sam, the other kidnapper, is angry at first, but his accomplice 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. Besides being a thorough gentleman, I think Mr. Dorset is a spendthrift for making us such a liberal offer. You ain’t going to let the chance go, are you?” (TRORC, pg. 15, par. 2). Sam eventually agrees with Bill, and they both return the boy and pay the 250 dollars. Their plan to make easy money has failed due to the fact they went on the original appearance of the boy and his father, and not the actual temperament of the boy. Along with returning the boy and paying 250 dollars, the two men make a very quick get away. Sam comments
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
Imagine having a great plan that you think will work out. Now imagine that it just failed horribly in so many ways. In “The Ransom of Red chief”, two men wanted money to pull off a fraudulent town-lot scheme in Western Illinois. To get this money, they decided that they would kidnap a child and charge two thousand dollars for his parents to get him back. But little did they know, their plan would completely backfire. They didn’t know that the boy they picked was a complete terror. In fact he wasn’t being a terror because he was trying to escape the kidnappers, he was just that way in general. When Sam and Bill went to pick up Johnny, they caught him throwing rocks at a baby kitten! They did not know what they were getting themselves into.
Even though the old man has done nothing to deserve this hatred, the young man is repulsed by his hideous feature. The man decides that he will murder the old man to escape the torment that the eye inflicted upon him. For many nights, the man approached the old man’s chambers with murderous intent, but could not execute his plans because he could not see the dreaded eye. One night,however, the old man awoke and the man maliciously murdered him and severed the libs. He meticulously hid all body parts within the walls and floor. When the police showed up the following morning, he calmly and confidently answered the door. After all suspicion had been
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!
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
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
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.
“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...
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.
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...