...Christmas Stocking" (1899). He used a pseudonym, Olivier Henry, only once and changed his pen name to O. Henry, not wanting his readers to know he was in jail. He published 12 stories while in prison. After serving 3 years of the five-year sentence, he was released for good behavior. He moved to New York City in 1902 and wrote a story a week for the New York World, and also for other publishers. His first collection of stories was "Cabbages and Kings" (1904). The next collection, "The Four Million" (1906), included his well-known stories "The Gift of the Magi", "The Skylight Room" and "The Green Door". One of his last stories, "The Ransom of Red Chief" (1910), is perhaps the best known of his works. Among its film adaptations are Ruthless People (1986) with Danny DeVito and Bette Midler, The Ransom of Red Chief(1998), The Ransom of Red Chief...
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...“Irony on Red Chief” The irony in the “The Ransom of Red Chief “creates humor and develops a theme by helping the readers understand what it happening between Bill and Sam. The type of irony this story has is a Dramatic Irony. It has a Dramatic Irony because the audience is aware of something the characters in the story are not. The story “The Ransom of Red Chief” uses humor to develop a theme. I think that the humor is between Bill and Red Chief. In paragraph 23 it states,” Just at daybreak, I was awakened by a series of awful screams from Bill”. To me this is funny because you could never think a child could hurt a grown man intentionally. In paragraph 24 it states,” I jumped up to see what the matter was. Red Chief was sitting on Bill’s...
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...That is what Ransom of Red Chief and home alone have in their theme. Theme is the message or lesson in the story, movie, book etc. It states in Ransom of Red Chief they said hey little boy, do you want some candy and a nice ride is what Sam and Bill said when they tried to take Red Chief. In Home Alone the crooks try to break into the house and steal the family's belongings, but Kevin knew that they were coming and fought them off with stuff around his house because he didn’t know them. Those are both examples of beware of strangers Another example is don't judge a book by it’s cover. In Ransom of Red Chief looked like a calm respectful kid who wouldn't hurt anybody, but it turns out that he is a rowdy kid that doesn’t like to listen to anybody,...
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...How Red Chief Creates Irony The situation irony in the Ransom of Red Chief creates humor and develops them because when Red Chief was kidnapped it caused a situation in the story. I know it was this irony because of the story is wrote and the situation in it. In the story it shows how irony was created by humor and how irony develop into a theme. In this paragraph I would like to talk about how irony is created by humor in the story. In paragraph #16, sentence #1 it states " I like this fine. I never camped out before; but I had a pet 'possum' once, and I was nine last birthday." What I think this quote means is that even know him got kidnapped he having fun. This story show that there is a problem but he is do things he has never...
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...«The Ransom Of Red Chief» O.Henry. Analysis. O.Henry was a prolific American short story writer, a master of surprise endings, who wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. William Sydney Porter was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. When he was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother and aunt. At the age of fifteen he left school. In 1897 he was convicted of stealing money. In prison he started to write short stories to earn money to support his daughter Margaret. After three of the five years sentence he came out of the prison. In 1901 he changed his name to O. Henry and died of cirrhosis of the liver on June 5 1910 . It is shown by the authors way of writing that the genre of the Ransom Of The Red Chief is a non-fiction because the characters, places, the events and actions in the story seem almost real. O. Henry describes the characters in a very delicate manner. He shows that Red Chief is a very active and mischievous kid . He has made the life of his kidnappers hell. The author uses chronological order to tell the story and to state the events that took place. He starts by introducing the main characters , the setting , then makes his way through by adding some twists and turns. The story finishes with a touch of irony . -They kidnapped Johnny. -They sent a letter to the father with demands. -The father replies the letter by an offer. -They accept the offer. -They return Johnny and pay the father the...
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...Synthesis Essay H.P. Lovecraft said, “Classics are a story of the past but shall live longer than any man as ever seen.” When you read the classics, such as: Dr. Seuss’ stories, The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, and the Raven by Edgar Allen Poe, you get an insight to history. A classic is only a classic if it talks about, or tackles, the problem of the day that it was written or the problems of the future. Classics are historical books that have an outstanding meaning to them and they all relate to life and they are relevant today because the meaning portrayed by them, transcend over time. Classics are classics if they consist of one of these topics: love, death, and wishes. The first theme you’ll see most commonly used in a classic is love. In the stories, “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 130” by W. Shakespeare, and “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe, they all portray that love is a wonderful thing. In Sonnet 18, lines 1-4, it states, “So long as man can breathe or eyes can see so long lives this, and gives life to thee.” The meaning of this is that your beauty and love for one another is never failing as you continue to live. In sonnet 130,lines 9-11, Shakespeare wrote, “I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound. I grant I never saw a goddess go.” As you can see, love can be a good or bad thing. In this case, love is a hideous thing and Shakespeare wrote about how love is funny. In a change to the meaning of love we move to the light...
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...Character: Chief Bromden (Chief Broom) is the narrator of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Attending for over ten years, he is the longest patient to stay the psychiatric hospital in Oregon. Bromden’s hallucinations brought him into the ward, in which he also gets paranoid and bullied. Because of these hallucinations, he must be medicated. In the beginning of the novel, Bromden reveals how the other patients believe he is deaf and cannot speak, however he is not. In the first chapter, Bromden writes, “They don’t bother not talking out loud about their hate secrets when I’m nearby because they think I’m deaf and dumb. Everybody thinks so. I’m cagey enough to fool them that much” (Kesey 3). Bromden himself does not know if what he is seeing is true or not and lies to his inmates about his disabilities, proving how he is an unreliable narrator....
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...“The Ransom of Red chief” O’Henry (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910) The text under analysis is ‘The ransom of red chief’ written by O’Henry, one of the most famous American short story writers of 19th century. O. Henry’s real name was William Sydney Porter and he was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. Let me start from the summary. The story runs about two crooks - Bill Driscoll and Sam. They decided to pull off a "fraudulent town-lot scheme” but for this scheme they needed money. So, they decided to kidnap a little boy of the wealthy man of town of Summit. But they couldn’t imagine what was waiting for them. This story opens with PROLOGUE where the author introduces to us the beginning of the story. And in the prologue two characters are presented to us: the narrator Sam and his friend Bill Driscoll. This text is written in 1st person narration. O’Henry uses it to create the atmosphere of the situation itself and to give us the opportunity to be involved and to feel ourselves as participants. In the very beginning the author keeps us in suspense with the words: but wait till I tell you. The setting of the story is town of Summit in West Illinois. Further go RISING ACTIONS which include selection of the victim, hiding in the cave, games with the boy and writing a letter to the father of the boy Johnny. Here we meet other characters: a little boy of 10 years, who is described directly and his father, Ebenezer Dorset. But Ebenezer is opposed to Bill, Sam and Johnny as...
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...In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, O’Brien makes it clear that the minor characters he includes play a chief role in the story’s significance. For example, Linda is introduced as an insignificant character, but the reader finds out that she plays a critical role in the development of the story’s main theme regarding the power of storytelling, and how the memories from these stories keep people alive. O’Brien constantly repeats himself by stating, “Stories can saves us,” making it a reoccurring theme in his book, and it is especially exemplified throughout his story about Linda. In the last chapter titled, “The Lives of the Dead,” it is the point where O’Brien begins his story about Linda, his lover, at the end of his overall story....
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...Compare and contrast two characters completely in Chapter 1 using themes? http://www.yoanaj.co.il/uploadImages/UserFiles/352.pdf Using themes and representation of character Golding’s Chapter 1 of Lord of the Flies, sets the tone of the story as it introduces us to its main characters. Ralph and Jack Merridew, are two characters who represent conflicting themes of civilisation and savagery that are developed throughout the novel.Chapter 1 sets up the emotions such as fear and excitement,and the clash between two different mindsets The novel’s protagonist, twelve-year-old English boy, Ralph represents human beings’ civilising instinct, as opposed to the savage instinct that Jack embodies. He is the representation of order, civilisation, and...
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...Henry Fleming, along with most Civil War soldiers, endured psychological struggles when faced with the reality that death is inevitable. Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage as a realistic novel by using average soldiers and conflicts that the average person could easily understand. Crane also included naturalism in this novel by associating the setting with the protagonist. Stephen Crane’s use of these psychological struggles made The Red Badge of Courage a truly unique novel of its time. The Red Badge of Courage is set in during the Civil War at the three day long Battle of Chancellorsville. The Civil War lasted for about four years in which the Union Army fought the Confederate Army, to preserve the United States, in sixty-seven full-scale battles, three hundred and ten engagements, and 6,337 skirmishes (Bowman 280). The Civil War claimed approximately 360,000 Union soldiers’ lives and left hundreds of thousands of men disabled. More than 400,000 men died of diseases, accidents, and other causes than war (Bowman 280). The war also severely hurt the economy. The property losses would cost billions of dollars by today’s terms. The total cost of the Civil War was fifteent billion in 1860 dollars which is equal to three hundred and fifty billion in 1990 dollars (Bowman 280). These losses resulted in the restoration of the American Union and the emancipation of four million enslaved African Americans. The Confederate Army fought against the mighty Union army for their...
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...and exploitation, as well as cultural cleansing of Native Americans. It also addresses internal struggles within the Chocatow tribe, including corruption, leadership, and the concepts of trust and spirituality. The early story, essentially, is about Red Shoes, the Chocatow Tribe Chief, and the murder of his wife. The coping mechanisms used and the investigation of the murder open a window into Native life, and how tribal spirituality transcends centuries....
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...demonstrated on the way they lived, and treated each other. An additional example, from John Smith, “Virginia, New England, And the Summer Isles,” is “But now was all our provision spent, the sturgeon gone, all helps abandoned, each hour expecting the fury of the savages, when God the patron of all good endeavors, in that desperate extremity so changed the hearts of the savages, that they brought such plenty of their fruits, and provision” (Smith 60). Demonstrates how strong their faith in God was. And lastly, according to “The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley,” “Phillis was a deeply religious woman, and religious themes dominate her poetry.” You can see how religion was becoming stronger over time, how it was shaping colony’s culture....
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...A Guide to Writing the Literary Analysis Essay I. INTRODUCTION: the first paragraph in your essay. It begins creatively in order to catch your reader’s interest, provides essential background about the literary work, and prepares the reader for your major thesis. The introduction must include the author and title of the work as well as an explanation of the theme to be discussed. Other essential background may include setting, an introduction of main characters, etc. The major thesis goes in this paragraph usually at the end. Because the major thesis sometimes sounds tacked on, make special attempts to link it to the sentence that precedes it by building on a key word or idea. A) Creative Opening/Hook: the beginning sentences of the introduction that catch the reader’s interest. Ways of beginning creatively include the following: 1) A startling fact or bit of information Example: Nearly two hundred citizens were arrested as witches during the Salem witch scare of 1692. Eventually nineteen were hanged, and another was pressed to death (Marks 65). 2) A snatch of dialogue between two characters Example: “It is another thing. You [Frederic Henry] cannot know about it unless you have it.” “ Well,” I said. “If I ever get it I will tell you [priest].” (Hemingway 72). With these words, the priest in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms sends the hero, Frederic, in search of the ambiguous “it” in his life. 3) A meaningful quotation (from the book you are analyzing...
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...SD’H Hospitality Lecture Series: Guest Speaker: Mr. Edmund Chua Former STB Assistant Chief Executive School D’Hospitality launched the first of her SD’H Lecture Series on 31st May 2012. Keeping with the institution’s mission to “inspire and develop future leaders and professionals for the hospitality business,” the lecture series was launched with the objectives of helping our students stay current to industry trends and development as well as encourage our students to develop critical thinking and practical application through the provision of a platform for interactive questions and discussions on hospitality related topics. The Branding and Shaping of a Nation’s Tourism: Singapore The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is the country’s leading economic development agency in tourism, one of Singapore’s key service sectors. Known for forging partnerships, driving innovation and ensuring excellence, the Board champions tourism and builds it into a key economic driver for Singapore. It was a red letter day for School D’Hospitality (SD’H) on the 31st May when special guest speaker, Former Assistant Chief Executive of the Singapore Tourism Board, Mr Edmund Chua gave an inspiring and informative lecture address with Q & A before some one hundred SD’H students. The topic was on “the Branding and Shaping of a Nation’s Tourism: Singapore.” It was a timely topic and indeed a treat for both our international and local students to learn how...
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