The Ransom of Red Chief Group
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College - FreshmanPosted by dalepowell1962 on Friday June 12, 2009 at 5:28 PMIn 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- a trait that given his parents, the Dorsetts, stunning counter demand, he has obviously inherited. Nothing he assumed about the boy was correct.
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