Comparison Of Home Alone And Ransom Of Red Chief

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In the movie Home Alone and the story, Ransom of Red Chief I feel like the theme for both of them is that no matter how small and innocent someone seems they could be a serious pain. In the story the author wrote] “The kid was a freckled face boy of ten with freckles that stood out.” (O’Henry 63) This shows that the two criminals thought this was just a little kid with freckles but later on they will realize how much trouble this kid will cause. In one of the scenes of the movie Home Alone the two thieves said it’s just a little boy and he’s home alone (Home Alone). This shows how the criminals under estimated the boy, but when they attempted to rob the kid he put many obstacles in their way which slowed them down and they were eventually …show more content…
In the movies the kid is similar to most kids our age unlike Red Chief. In the story it stated “The kid was in the street. He was throwing rocks at a kitten on a fence.” (O’Henry 62). This shows that the movie is more modern than the story because Kevin was just a normal little kid and Red Chief was throwing rocks at a little helpless animal. Also if you were throwing rocks at a kitten on a fence today, you would probably get the cops called on you. Another reason the movie is more modern is the difference in the setting. In the story the setting was in a small town and in the middle of nowhere and in the movie it was just a modern neighborhood. In Ransom of Red Chief “There was a town down there, as flat as a pancake. It was called Summit. Of course the people who lived there were as harmless and happy a group of peasants gathered around a Maypole.”(O’Henry 61) This proves that the movie is more old fashioned because of how old fashioned the setting. Usually in newer movies and stories the setting is either set in the present or the future. My final reason for believing that the story is more old fashion is because of the reaction to a kidnapping. If someone gets kidnapped these days you call the police and tell everyone immediately and the whole town will be flipping out, but it wasn’t like that at all in the story. The author wrote “Over toward Summit I expected to see village folk. Armed with scythes and pitchforks, searching the countryside for the kidnappers. But what I saw was a peaceful landscape and one man plowing with a mule.” This illustrates that the story is older because no one really even realized the boy was gone and everything was just peaceful. But if someone was to get kidnapped in our town I believe that everyone would be out looking for the kidnappers. I believe the director chose to make the movie more modern so it would be more appealing to a younger

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