The Ransom Of The Red Chief Analysis

How would you feel if you were taken by two strange men,would you be scared,worried,sad, maybe even happy,well this kid had an emotion that you probably didn't expect. In the story The Ransom of the Red Chief the author illustrates the theme, If a person is determined to do something they could be blind to the things around them that could change how they feel about someone of something. In the story the two men think that since they have the boy they will get the ransom from the boy's father and get away with it “We demand fifteen hundred dollars in large bills for his return,”The two men expect the father to listen to their request but the plan ends up backfiring on them and they end up with a different offer for the kids return because they don't want him anymore and they want to get rid of him.They also think that

'I don't have any fun at home. I hate to go to school. I like to camp out. You won't take me back home again, Snake-eye, will you?'.” The boy obviously didn't want to go home because he didn't like his lifestyle because it was to boring and being out in the woods was an adventure to him that he didn't want to end.Also the boy said something that made the two men a little worried.”It's an awful thing to hear a strong, desperate, fat man scream incontinently in a cave at daybreak.I jumped up to see what the matter was. Red Chief was sitting on Bill's chest, with one hand twined in Bill's hair. In the other he had the sharp case-knife we used for slicing bacon; and he was industriously and realistically trying to take Bill's scalp, according to the sentence that had been pronounced upon him the evening before.”The men are afraid that the boy will do something dangerous to them but they know that he won't leave because he enjoys the woods to much but the men are still a little