“... bring Johnny home and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars, and I agree to take him of your hands”(O. Henry 3). Showing that the dad knows his son is annoying and that he will get his son back. O. Henry’s short story “The Ransom of Red Chief” is a low level comedy that uses comic characters and word play pun to convey the idea that people that do bad, don 't think about the consequences that could happen to them. O. Henry’s story is a low comedy because of the plot and the physical mishaps. In the story the boy hits bill again with a rock. “When I got to the cave, I found Bill backed up against the side of it. He was breathing hard with the boy threatening to strike him with a rock… I hit his ears”(2). The author reveals the setting