Humor In O. Henry's Ransom Of Red Chief

Have you ever thought it that being kidnapped would be lots of fun and an exciting thing? Well it was fun for one young boy named Johnny who also went by Red Chief . Two criminals that are named Bill and Sam and they go together like oil and water kidnapped Johnny hoping that his dad would pay lots of money to get his son back. Ohhhhh boy was that a mistake, Johnny was a ain and drove the 2 crazy. At the end of the chaos the ended up paying the dad $250 to return him, how ironic. O. Henry’s short story “Ransom of Red Chief” is a low level comity that uses comic situations to convey the idea that what goes around comes around which means if you do something wrong it will come back and get you.

Low comedy is where it does not need much thought to understand or is slapstick which is like someone tripping and falling. Right when they see a red chief they tell the boy to come for a horseback ride and some candy, but when they say that, red chief is not going down without a fight.”The boy catches Bill neatly in the eye with a brick.” The quote is low calmly because we laugh that the boy it's fighting and beating up an old man this affects the audience because if it makes them have any comic reaction to the story it will make the

Sam went up to the top of the mountain to see if anybody was scrambling around looking for the boy. When he got back to the cave he saw Bill in trouble with the boy. “The boy threatened to smash him (Bill) with a rock half as big as a coconut.” This is funny because the little kid is acting like a gang member backing someone into the back alley where they hurt and harass the poor, innocent person this is funny because the little kid is acting like a gang member backing someone into the back alley where they hurt and injure the poor innocent person. This entertain the audience because it is not every day that you see a little kid threatening and scaring an