Ransom

In 1853 a professor named Ransom Dum set off on a two-year journey to raise funds for Hillsdale college, a learning in Michigan. There are donations and charities going on nationwide every single day. Generosity is happening this second. I see people that even have less giving more…

In “The Ransom of Red Chief”, the two main characters are greedy for money and decide to kidnap a boy for ransom. “You bring Johnny home and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars in cash, and I agree to take him off your hands.” (O. Henry 24) The irony ends up being that instead of gaining money, the men are so…

The hysterical tale of two moronic kidnappers and one terror of a child will make baby- sitters everywhere quiver and potential kidnappers reconsider. O.Henry’s short story “The Ransom of Red Chief “ is a high caliber comedy that utilizes irony and allusions to convey the conception that although it is not what seems most favorable, a sense of justice will play into everything we do. The irony in the story is very unexpected, making it even more hysterical, but at the same time making the reader…

In the story “The Ransom of Red Chief”, written by O. Henry, two main characters Bill and Sam kidnapped a young boy. However, their actions turned out to be a mistake. They had originally planned to get the boy, then return him for money. With their hopes, they were trying to gain two thousand dollars from the kidnapping, but unfortunately for them it didn’t go the way they wanted. The ten year old boy, Red Chief, was more than they realized they could handle. Not only was this situation a huge…

There is one theme that stands out between the short story The Ransom of Red Chief and the movie Home Alone. The theme of both the story and the film is that you need to be careful for what you ask for. On page 61 of the story The Ransom of Red Chief it states, “ It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were down South, in Alabama, - Bill Driscoll and myself- when we thought of this kidnapping idea. It was during an instant of momentary madness, as Bill said afterward. But we…

“The Ransom of Red Chief” has a theme that is crime doesn't pay. He shows this through the actions and dialogue of Sam and Bill throughout the text. The whole story is about how Sam and Bill kidnap Johnny. But in the beginning of the story Sam drops a big hint of what is going to happen later on in the story. On page 11 paragraph 1“It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you.”Right away they tell you that all isn't as good as it seems.So somethings gonnna happen to the criminals all…

The first thing I noticed about The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was how the camera remained mostly objective for the entire movie. I thought that this was interesting since the story is mainly told through the perspective of Ransom Stoddard who seems to be the main character and yet I don’t think there’s a moment in the film where we get a shot entirely from just his perspective. I wonder if this had been done on purpose to remove the viewer from the action on screen and allow them to have a…

actively choose virtue. Take C. S. Lewis’ character, Ransom, from his science fiction novel, Out of The Silent Planet. He proves to be virtuous throughout the story by retrieving a young man whom he did not know, by hunting an alien beast with an alien tribe, and by visiting the alien ‘leader’. Ransom’s first virtuous act was retrieving a worried mother’s son from his work. While on his walking…

of my favorites. Ransom, a philologist, is kidnapped after saving a clueless little boy on a deterred road. When Ransom wake, His kidnapers Weston, one of Ransom's old roommates, and Devine, tell him he is on a…

choices crafted by the protagonist Dr. Ransom, a kidnapped, but inquisitive college professor. Fighting to escape from his captors, Dr. Ransom finds himself in a flipped representation of his world, which deniably becomes his new home. Desperately seeking a way to return back to earth, even if it involves jeopardizing his own life, becomes his goal, along with rating his chances of survival on this bewitching planet. Stranded on a freakishly uncanny planet, Dr. Ransom is compelled to forge…