Red Chief

The Ransom of the Red Chief

Summary: Two strong men named Bill and Sam travel into American territories looking for money. Until a man name Johnny Dorset and his father Ebenezer Dorset comes and ask them to do them a favor. They give them money to kidnap a boy. When they do people get suspicious after there hideout was only two miles away from town. Then the people who asked them said if you need help with the kid they would have to pay them 2500 dollars. They had no choice but they had to do it without people seeing so they dropped him off like he needed to go somewhere. Luckily the boy escaped Sam Bill and the Dorset’s, when he outran Johnny when he came to the house.

Characters: 

Sam 

Bill

Johnny Dorset

Ebenezer Dorset 

Plot Elements:

Exposition: Johnny Dorset and the kidnappers.

Rising Action: Kidnapping the boy and the two men in the remote cave. 

Climax: When they are forced into submission by Johnny and his father and tries to take the kid. They had to pay in order for Johnny and his father to take him.

Resolution: They boy ran out of the kidnappers hands.

Analysis: This book was like a movie in my head. I love action movies and books I don’t really like slow books. This one was fast paced and easy to read. Some books I say when is it over. This one I wish they added more but then again it is a short story. I would really watch it to see if it was what I thought it was going to be like. I also like when books have movies so I can put it my mind and then watch it. 

This author is very descriptive he seems to know what he is talking about. I like how he made it drug out with them having the boy with them, and how the story started with him getting kidnapped. He made it very descriptive also because he made four people hold him captive.

I don’t really know why he made this story, but this happens everyday with some crazy person kidnapping someone. It would be really hectic and terrifying if I got kidnapped or I know someone that got kidnapped. It was such a relief when he escaped because going through all of that at a very young age is to hard.