Use Of Situational Irony In The Ransom Of Red Chief

In the story "ransom of Red Chief" the irony creates humor in the story. For example, the author states "What's $250 after all?" referring to them paying too get rid of Red Chief. I find this ironic and funny, because it is quite strange to see kidnappers paying to get rid of someone they kidnapped.

Situational irony occurs when there is a situation which appears to have an assumed conclusion, but then something ironic happens and the end result is different than what was expected. Harrison, the unique son of George and Hazel, is a tall, strong man who is attempting to overthrow the government. He manages to break out of jail and takes control of the television station, declaring himself the Emperor. Just as it appears that he is going to succeed in his takeover, the Handicapper General came into the studio. ”She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor.” This is not the expected outcome and creates irony in this situation.

In the very beginning of the story, Jonathan Harker is traveling to Dracula’s castle in place of his boss who couldn’t go. His intentions are good so he can help his boss and make some money off of the land he is planning to sell, however his intentions get turned around when Dracula traps him inside the castle and he fears for his life. These are examples of situational irony.

One example I’m going to show you is about dramatic irony is Madame Schafer she see’s fire when they are on the train to Auschwitz from a very long distance and keeps on screaming that they are going to be burned alive so the people on the train had to quiet her down by hitting her in the head over and over till she had stopped yelling and crying and she was quiet again. Every

In the book “ The Book Thief “ irony is used a great deal of the time. Irony is an event that is different than what you would expect to happen. The book thief is about an orphan who lives with a family while the Holocaust is happening, the story is told by Death.

Guy de Maupassant uses situational irony to produce the effect of justice in “The Necklace.¨ For instance, Matilde spends 10 years in misery for nothing. She spends ten years trying to regain the money lost and pay off the debt even though it was fake. For ten years

After losing what she thought was an expensive necklace, her and her husband had to replace it. The paid forty five thousand francs for an identical new one. They accumulated debt and sacrificed as much as they could. Guy de Maupassant wrote, “Madame Loisel came to know the life of abject poverty” (7). This an an example of situational irony because she feels that she deserves more than what she has but in the end she has less. The reader feels sorry for her because despite her greed she still lived in abject poverty for ten years. Another example of how the author uses situational irony to make the reader feel sympathetic toward a character is when it turns out that the necklace was fake. This is ironic because Mathilde and her husband paid forty five thousand francs to replace the necklace when they only need to pay about five thousand. Mathilde finds this out at the end of the story when Mathilde confronts Madame Forestier and Madame Forestier replies, “Oh my poor Mathilde! But mine was an imitation it was worth at the very most five hundred francs.” (8) The author produces pity in the reader because mathilde suffered in poverty when she didn't have too. Guy de Maupassant clearly uses situational irony to make the reader feel pity

Do you know what irony is? There are three types of irony; verbal, situational, and dramatic irony. The situational irony in the Ransom of Red Chief creates humor and develops a theme by the reader not knowing what will happen in the next act of the story whenever they read.

The Ransom Of Red Chief Two men got more trouble than they had expected when they kidnapped a bad kid. In The Ransom of Red Chief, O. Henry tells the tale of “Two desperate men” in this comical short story. The men end up kidnapping one of the worst kids ever. The innocent kid that they kidnapped proves that his bark is not as bad as his bite. Can Sam and Bill survive the Ransom of Red Chief? O. Henry uses situational irony, verbal irony, and dramatic irony to make the story humorous.

Imagine there is an agent who works for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and he is one of their best agents. One weekend, the gets pulled over for speeding, and the police officer notices prescription drugs that are his in his car. The officer then conducts a search on his car and finds a plastic bag full of cocaine. This is an example of irony. Literary irony can be used to get the readers attention, to cause the reader to stop and think, and to emphasize the author’s main point or idea. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” has many instances of irony. These instances of irony are used as ensure the reader’s attention, to provoke thought, and the most important use is to emphasize the idea of how oppressive some marriages can be and how that oppressiveness can be a secret to other loved ones.

O Henry, kidnapped Johnny Dorset from his front yard. By examining these two stories ¨ The Ransom of Red Chief ¨ and ¨ The Necklace¨ it is clear O Henry, got out of jail, and decided to kidnap Johnny Dorset from his front yard because his father has a lot of money. Johnny was the happiest he could ever be kidnapped in the cave acting like a normal kid playing around. This situational irony comes from the short story ¨ The Ransom of Red Chief .¨ In O Henry's story, he shows situational irony, he surprises the people reading his short story and also fill the readers with many emoticons. Guy de Maupassant shows in his short story too. In ¨ The Ransom of Red Chief ¨ and Guy de Maupassant both in their short story ¨ The Necklace ¨ and ¨ The Ransom

“It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you”(Henry 1). This is the first sentence in the short story “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry. The story begins with two men who decide to kidnap the son of a wealthy man for ransom. They kidnap the boy and take him up into the mountains to hide in a cave. The boy was a handful and while playing Indian he tried to scalp one of the men.

For instance, Guy de Maupassant uses situational irony to create the effect of pity. Mathilde wants to be the richest of the rich, and ends up being the poorest of the poor. Even though Mathilde lived a comfortable middle class life she felt as though she deserved more. “She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury,” (1) so when Loisel, her husband, gets the two of them invited to a fancy gathering,

Additionally, we studied another form of high comedy, situational irony. To demonstrate, in "A Day's Work", an excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Mark Twain reports that while Tom had to whitewash on a beautiful day when he would rather be playing, he ended up conning his friends into doing his work for him while he sat back and enjoyed the so called treasures that they gave to him so they could do his work, including "a dead rat and a string to swing it with"(44) and "a brass door-knob"(44). Despite having a slight understanding of what irony was before this unit, I had never heard of situational irony before. Situational irony leads readers to believe that the story is going in one direction, then suddenly revealing a twist that makes it humorous. If I were to have read this excerpt before learning about situational irony and its aspects, I would have been thoroughly confused. However, now that I have been introduced to this idea, I can understand and enjoy the often comical product of situational irony. Even though Tom had been willing to give up some of his treasures at the beginning, by the end he was rolling in riches without lifting a finger.

Another example of situational irony in the story is that Monsieur and Madame Loisel bought a real diamond necklace, even though the original was fake. They went into unnecessary debt just because Madame Loisel was unhappy with her life, and decided to borrow a necklace from Madame