Short Story Of Ransom Of Red Chief

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“It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were down South, in Alabama - Bill Driscoll and myself - when this kidnapping idea struck us. It was, as Bill expressed it, ‘during a moment of temporary mental apparition’; but we didn’t find that out till later.” (Henry 1) This is how the narrator, named Sam, pulls the readers into his story about the wild kidnapping of a young boy, who is the son of a very rich guy. Now, this boy’s name is Johnny (he later names himself Red Chief) and he has more fun being kidnapped than any ordinary boy would have. In this short story, named “Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry, two con-artists, named Bill and Sam, have the great idea of kidnapping Johnny, who turns out to be more trouble than he is

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