Ransom Of Red Chief Thesis

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In the short story, “Ransom Of Red Chief”,by William Sydney Porter, Sam, the narrator, and Bill, his partner, decided to kidnap the child of Ebenezer Dorset because Ebenezer looked rich and they thought that they could make some good money off of him, and the whole town would not be able to find them. The third paragraph states, “We knew that summit couldn’t get after us with anything stronger than constables and maybe some lacksided bloodhounds and a diatribe or two in the Weekly Farmers Budget,” (Porter, Paragraph 3). Summit is a small town in Alabama. Bill and Sam knew that Summit could not track them with anything that would be able to find them. Since they did not have anything that could find them, they decided to hit that town. They

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