Ransom Written by Lois Duncan
Setting: The story takes place in New Mexico
Time: The story occurs during the winter.
Characters: Buck is one of the three people who are kidnapping the children. He is tempered easily. He doesn’t really care for others much. Rita is Buck’s wife. She is not very pretty and gets drug into schemes by Buck. She feels he will leave her if she doesn’t follow directions. Juan is the other kidnapper who does more of the dirty work. He is the one who calls the parents for the money. He’s the one who shot the bus driver. Glenn is one of the boys who were kidnapped. He’s very popular and has friends and thinks that nobody dislikes him. He’s handsome and very athletic. Glenn’s brother Bruce
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Jesse and Dexter talk. She tells him that the night before she heard Rita and Buck saying that he killed their bus driver. She gets scared and starts to cry. After hearing this, the boys decide that they need to leave. Back at Valley Gardens the parents are receiving the phone calls from Juan regarding the ransom. All the parents are discussing with their spouses the amount of the ransom are making plans to get the money except. But, Dexter’s uncle still hasn’t heard about the kidnapping yet. The parents are also faced with the question of whether or not to call the police. Back at the cabin, the kids finally decide that Marianne will distract Rita while Buck’s gone so Jesse can sneak and get the keys to the storage room to unlock the boys later. When Buck comes home, he and Rita go to sleep and the girls unlock the boys. The plan is to have Dexter hotwire the car with Glenn’s help, and for Bruce to transport messages between the boys and girls. Jesse and Marianne go back to the bunk beds and await the message from Bruce that they are ready when she hears Buck get out of bed and go into the kitchen. She tries to get Buck to go back to bed when the door comes open slowly and in walks Bruce. Bruce says quietly that they got the car hotwired, then he sees Buck. Jesse shouts ‘run’ and all three boys take off down the hill. The girls screamed when a pistol shot rang out throughout the forest. They saw a dark figure drop onto the ground. Once in
To begin with, the important characters in this book includes: Tj, his parent, and foster home kids. TJ is the main character who is used and abused by his parents. Even as young child TJ's parent treated him as an adult, but even though they abused him badly they still played
In her collection of poetry Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith brings real world problems into focus with “Solstice” and “Ransom”. The main idea in “Solstice” is the geese that forced the Hudson River plane crash in New York, while Smith writes of the Somalian pirates and sea pollution in “Ransom”. However, these are just the literal meanings behind the two poems that have deeper meanings relating to the state of the world and how humans are playing a role in it, politically and physically. There is a constant struggle in the poems “Solstice” and “Ransom” that where there is always an underdog, whether it be protesters attempting to make a change or Somalian pirates fighting back because their fishing waters have been corrupted.
1. Pony boy Curtis- The narrator of the story. Ponyboy’s love for literature and academics make him different from the rest of the gang. He’s also the youngest. Because his parents died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his brothers. His oldest brother accuses him of lacking common sense but, ponyboy is a reliable and observant character.
1.) Characters in the novel are John Grady, Lacey Rawlins, Belvins, Alejandra, Senor Rocha, Cole, Franklin, Captain and Perez. The most important characters throughout the novel are John Grady, Belvins, Rawlins, and Alejandra as they are the major characters.
Candy is a sad old man who has only one hand, lost his oldest friend, and has basycally lived on the farm. Crooks is a black man that has been kicked in te back by a horse. He lives in a time where blacks are frounded upon and he is luky to have a job being a cripled. Last we have Curlys wife who is trapped at the farm because she was not notified about being in the movies and henceforth the reason she marired Curly and lives in what she thinks is “hell”.
As Kendra and Seth look for clues they met dale who was carrying a two buckets in hand and was going somewhere in the woods. Seth when to the wood when told to not go there by Grandpa Sorenson . When Seth was following the trail he thought of going back, he change his mind and kept going deeper into the woods.
The characters are Breanna,Isaac,Gina,and Avery. Breanna is 16 years old,Isaac,Gina, and Avery are 17 years old. Breanna is the main character. Isaac and Gina are Breanna’s best friends. Then there’s Avery and she is the popular girl and a bully. They live in the state of Nevada and attended Highland High school. Isaac and Gina sometimes go to Breanna’s house to hang out. Breanna,Gina,and Isaac are shy, but they all love sports. Avery is into parties and fighting.They all are seniors in high school.
Cody Stricker Ms. Windish Creative Composition 27 March 2018 Who’s Really the Victim Here? In the story “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry a young child makes a fool of two kidnappers. The plot goes: two bandits decide to kidnap a kid in order to get ransom money for him.
The unamiable elements in the character of the Duke of Burgundy had been called into active exercise in very early life. While Duke de Nevers, he was defeated at Nicopolis, and made prisoner by Bajazet, surnamed "Ilderim," or the Thunderer. What rendered this defeat the more mortifying was, the boastful expectation of success proclaimed by the Christian army. "If the sky should fall, we could uphold it on our lances," they exclaimed, but a few hours before their host was scattered, and its leaders prisoners to the Moslem. Jean-sans-peur[Pg 62] was detained in captivity until an enormous ransom was paid for his deliverance. Giovanni-Galeazzo was suspected of connivance with Bajazet, both in bringing the Christians to fight at a disadvantage,
The characters are Johnny, George, Claire (George’s sister), Jason (Johnny’s brother) and Crystal and Alice (Johnny and Jason’s friends).
We are introduced to Clint, Lucy, and Wade. Clint has a huge crush on Lucy, but her boyfriend Wade keeps getting in the way. None of the characters are likable except the main character, but he is so bland and uninteresting. Lucy is the typical love interest and Wade is the typical asshole boyfriend while the rest of the characters are just there. Clint begins to teach his first class and a sick girl takes a chomp out of another boy’s face.
In the meantime, Travis and Harrison embrace their new “toy” – by driving at will, and playing with the arsenal of weaponry found in the back seat. However, they eventually hear a noise in the trunk – which turns out to by a shackled, bleeding man (Shea Whigham) that the sheriff was in the process of disposing of. And, when h’s finally freed, it sets up a showdown between the vengeful man and the en route sheriff – with the kids in the crossfire.
There are a lot of characters that show up a lot in the series, but two obvious main characters. The main two characters are Sadie Kane and Carter Kane. They are a brother and sister that have been separated their whole lives until now. I made sure the put a picture of both of them in it to show what they are supposed to look like. It is very easy to figure out they are the main characters because each chapter is narrated by one or the other. They have two very different personalities and that can be figured out very quickly and the pictures show how they are different. Sadie and Carter are the only two characters in every chapter and sometimes are the only two. The only other characters that would be considered main characters
I was on my way to a New York , but i passed a little town before i got there and though that i should stop and rest. I walk into the inn older lady greets me her dull brown eyes meet my green eyes. She looks at me like i was crazy for coming in at 10:40 pm for a room to rest in , or it might be that i look like someone crazy person with a red wild mess on my head that i call hair. The older lady finally spoke after a long silence.
The three main characters in the movie are Gus, Clark, and Richie. These characters are the outcasts who play baseball to stand up to their past bullies. Gus is a landscaper, married, expecting a child, loves to play baseball, and is now the leader of the team. Supposedly, Gus didn’t want to play in high school because he didn’t want the reputation as a jock. Clark works as a newspaper boy and is always seen wearing a helmet. He was always picked on in high school. Richie works at a shop called Video Spot and he also had been affected by bullying in high school. Clark and Richie went to the same high school and dealt with the same bullies. Gus went to a different high school, which meant that the other two didn’t know the real truth about him back then. Towards the end of the movie, they come to find out that instead of being bullied like them, he was the bully.