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    For The Sake of Feeling Free Sulla Montes Synopsis While Vi Bran celebrates the last day of senior year final exams with a group of friends in a local nightclub, Matt Ludwig, a stranger, steals her from the group and gives her her first kiss. Through Matt’s ability to effortlessly impress a girl, Vi becomes even more interested with the Columbia University undergraduate who is home in Ireland for the summer. Both spend the rest of the night with each other by the river that gushes through the…

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    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…

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    The Ransom of Red Chief In the short story and movie of “The Ransom of Red Chief” the author uses similarities and differences between Red Chief, the father, and the kidnappers. First, Red Chief in the short story and movie he still acts the same and never listens, and nobody wants him around when he goes to town. However, there are many differences between the short story and movie about Red Chief, in the short story his name was Johnny and in the movie his name was Andrew. Then, the father…

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    This book was written by Ransom riggs, This book was published in June 7, 2011. The genre of this book is Young adult fiction, Fantasy there are 382 pages. When Jacob was young he loved and looked up to his grandpa Abe. His grandpa fought in wars, was in the circus and he was raised in an orphanage. His grandpa told him stories of these Peculiar children who can do amazing things and he saw these children while he was out fighting in the war. Later on, when Jacob is about fifteen his…

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    it can be bad. Like in the story “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant, the author uses situational irony by making the readers feel pity towards Mathilde. In the story “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry, the author makes the readers feel humor. By reading these two stories “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant and “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry, it is obvious that the authors are using situational irony to affect the reader’s emotions. In…

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    Dorset, son of Ebenezer Dorset, (the wealthy man) and run off with him to a cave. Johnny, also called “Red Chief”, turns out to be more trouble than he’s worth, literally! The two friends expect a ransom of $2,000, but “Red Chief” causes so much chaos and havoc that the conmen are willing to give up the ransom just to get rid of him. Red Chief’s attempts to scalp, burn, and torture the two swindlers cause them to give up. He is especially cruel to Bill, which results in Bill pleading with Sam…

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    answered through how people act in situation, opinions, thoughts and perspective as well as actions and feelings, but there is infinite possibilities to why someone is who they are, all very personal realization the individual has to explore. Both Ransom Riggs and Michael Ondaatje explore this in their novels Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children and The Cat’s Table as they both tell a story about their childhood and life experiences that have impacted who they are and developed into.…

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    Irony means about the same thing as a discrepancy between what is expected to happen and what actually happens. A story that has situational Irony is the Ransom of Red Chief. The situational Irony in the Ransom of Red Chief creates humor and develops a theme by the characters expecting one thing to happen, but another does. The irony in The Ransom of Red Chief creates humor because they tried to kidnap a kid for money but in the end they didn't get any money. For example in paragraph 4,…

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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…

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    elements much like Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Gothic elements such as loss, monsters, and psychological issues are connected to Riggs’ novel, but also to well-known gothic short stories like “The Raven”, “The Black Cat”, by Edgar Allan Poe, and “The Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga. For example, the famous poem “The Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs, share the same gothic element of loss. In “The…

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