Summary Of The Ransom Of Red Chief By O. Henry

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Some say the best medicine for sickness is humor! We all know that humor comes in many forms of literature we read in books. So what I’ll be talking about today within this essay is comparing is how the author of “Brer Rabbit and Brer Lion”; Julius Lester. And the author of “The Ransom of Red Chief”; O. Henry used their own traditional elements of humor. Both authors used different and quite unique ways of literature within their story so I will point out each element in my essay.

O. Henry uses cruel humor within “The Ransom of Red Chief” the story itself was quite hilarious since the two men tried to have someone pay them the ransom to return their kidnapped child safely, but in the end they had pay the ransom to the father. The comical

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