Chief”’ Humourous In the narrative “The Ransom Of A Red Chief” by O’Henry comic characters and comic situations create humor. Two men, Bill and Sam, kidnap Johnny Dorset , the child of a wealthy man, in order to acquire money from Ebenezer Dorset. However, to their surprise, the child seems to keep Bill and Sam on their toes as though Johnny kidnaps them. The author frames Bill, one of the kidnappers, in a manner of a comical character considering he acts the way others would not. As O’Henry writes in the tale, “They weren’t yells, or houls, or shouts, or whoops, or yawps, such as you’d expect from a manly set of vocal organs- they were simply indecent, terrifying, humiliating screams, such as women emit when they see caterpillars.” (73