Ransom Of Red Chief Theme

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There is a strong theme that ties ransom of red chief and home alone . Like in the ransom of red chief once they kidnapped the kid and he kid did not want to go home because he was having a lot of fun. In the movie home alone kevin wanted his family to disappear and never come back. In the story red chief said aww do i have to go home that is what red chief said in the story. In the movie kevin said i don't want to ever see you again. That proves that the ransom of red chief and home alone are the same. Even though the people in ransom of red chief and home alone are different they still have similar traits in both of the stories. Both of the main characters are standing up for something. In the ransom of red chief the kidnappers were trying …show more content…
The reason i think that home alone is more modern is because they have old cars and they have people from the airport and they don't do that much in are day in age. In the movie the mom tells the one girl to count and see how many kids there were before getting on the van to the airport. This proves that it was modern in the movie. According to the text in home alone kevin walked out back of his house and he did not think his parents left because the cars were still there and they were old cars. That proves it was made a while ago. He was still watching movies that were in black and white. According to the text he was watching a movie and scared off the pizza guy and the movie was in black and white. According to the text Kevin was watching a movie that was in black and white and he scared a lot of people with it. That is another way to tell the movie is more modern. According to the text if the movie was made in are day in age it would have color in the screen but it wasn't it was black and white.that is a way to tell that the movie home alone is old.in the movie home alone they had an old washer and dryer. According to the text kevin went down in the basement to do laundry and the washer and dryer is old. This illistates that is the third way you can tell that the movie is old. According to the text if the movie was not old the would have a nexer washer and dryer. This reveals that is a way to tell the

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