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        <title><![CDATA[why does the narrator walk to poplar grave?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[why does the narrator walk to poplar grave?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In short stories, the turning point is the most dramatic moment -- the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In short stories, the turning point is the most dramatic moment -- the one where what has been a crisis or conflict is about to be resolved.
In "The Ransom of Red Chief," the turning point occurs when the kidnappers receive a reply to their ransom note.  The crisis/conflict has been building since they kidnapped Johnny Dorset and found out that he was going to be so much trouble to deal with.
In the turning point, the kidnappers find out that...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the turning point of "The Ransom Of Red Chief"?
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the turning point of "The Ransom Of Red Chief"?
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        <title><![CDATA[In my classroom, I teach my students that Imagery is a fancy word for...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In my classroom, I teach my students that Imagery is a fancy word for Sensory Details, or using these senses: sight, smell, taste, touch/feel, and hearing.  Text that adds specific details is the key.
...About two miles from Summit was a little mountain, covered with a dense cedar brake.
...That boy put up a fight like a welter-weight cinnamon bear; but, at last, we got him down in the bottom of the buggy and drove away. We took him up to the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:01:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are some examples of imagery in this short story by O. Henry?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are some examples of imagery in this short story by O. Henry?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:29:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This question has been previously asked and answered. Please see the...]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 11:05:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the narrator's name in The Ransom of Red Chief?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the narrator's name in The Ransom of Red Chief?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:56:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Actually, the only character whose behavior is NOT really surprising at...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Actually, the only character whose behavior is NOT really surprising at the conclusion of this ironic story is that of the kidnapped boy. From the beginning, Johnny is described as a hellion; he is captured while chucking rocks at a kitten, and throughout the story the behavior of this "captive" is fiendish. It is hardly surprising, therefore, when he resists being "reunited" with his loving family.
The kidnappers, on the other hand, begin by...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:19:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Whose behavior is most surprising by the end of The Ransom of Red Chief?
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        <description><![CDATA[Whose behavior is most surprising by the end of The Ransom of Red Chief?
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        <title><![CDATA[what is sam's full name on ransome of red cheif]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what is sam's full name on ransome of red cheif]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The story itself never states directly what year it was.  So, we have...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The story itself never states directly what year it was.  So, we have to do a bit of research, and inferring from the text, to try to guess what time period it took place during.  All of the evidence seems to point to the time period of the late 1800's.
If you look up information on O. Henry, his life span was relatively short.  He lived from 1862-1910.  Most of his stories seem to be set in around this time period, so we can probably...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2009 17:03:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Around what era, or year did "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry take...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Around what era, or year did "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry take place??]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bill Driscoll is one of the kidnappers in this story, a story I...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Bill Driscoll is one of the kidnappers in this story, a story I frequently used as a warning to my children when they were young about what would happen if they were kidnapped.  The narrator is Sam, the other kidnapper.  As we read the story, it appears that Sam is in charge of things, and that Bill is the weaker of the partners.  But we can also see that while these men might be capable of trying to commit crimes, they are severely...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:02:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who is Bill from "The Ransom Of Red Chief"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who is Bill from "The Ransom Of Red Chief"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:46:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Irony appears in several parts of Ransom of Red Cheif.  In the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Irony appears in several parts of Ransom of Red Cheif.  In the beginning, Johnny goes from being the one captured to holding his captors hostage.  He literally takes Bill captive during their 'game' (where Johnny becomes 'Red Cheif'), and then the men become his captives when he refuses to return to his family after Sam and Bill have realized they made a mistake taking this child.
Another ironic incident in the story is when Sam mails the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever been around a mischievous or hard-to-discipline...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever been around a mischievous or hard-to-discipline child can appreciate the irony in this story.  The two bumbling kidnappers, Bill Driscoll and the narrator, are going to try to get $2000 in ransom for a fraud scheme up in Illinois.  They select the son of a well-to-do mortgage broker, who they expect will pay every dime of the $2000 that they need.  Their first hint that this might not go well should have been when they...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the irony in the story of "The Ransom of Red Chief" By O. Henry?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the irony in the story of "The Ransom of Red Chief" By O. Henry?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:51:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In O Henry's "The Ransom Of Red Chief", Sam is the "brains" (if there...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In O Henry's "The Ransom Of Red Chief", Sam is the "brains" (if there are any brains) of the operation.  At the beginning of the story, he reasons that given the size of a child that a child would have to do what he says.  He also wrongly assumes that "Red Chief" will be afraid of them and that the parents will gladly pay a ransom to get him back.
He is wrong.
At the end of the story, he discovers that the boy is both cunning and conniving-...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How do I Describe Sam's feelings about Red Chief by the end of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How do I Describe Sam's feelings about Red Chief by the end of the story?  How does he change from the beginning of the story?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Certainly an incongruity exists between what the men expect to happen in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Certainly an incongruity exists between what the men expect to happen in Summit, Alabama, and what actually occurs.  Thinking themselves too sophisticated for the "yeomen" of such a place, Sam and Bill assume their "kidnapping idea" an easy way to make quick money.
However, there are many surprises for the men. For instance, usually after the disappearance of a child in a small town, the citizens are unified in a searrch for this child. ...]]></description>
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