In “The Ransom of the red chief” O’Henry uses irony to create a humorous tone. the story is full of twist and turns you would not expect. bill and Sam are looking to kid to kidnap for a ransom when they find a boy bill asks the boy if he wants a “bag of candy and a nice ride?” the boy response is to hit bill in the eye with a brick. This creates humor because you don’t expect a kid to react that way when someone is trying to kidnap him. When bill and Sam saw the town named Summit, they were not expecting it to be as “flat as a flannel-cake.” bill had the idea of kidnapping the kid and getting the money from the kid’s father but we learn that Mr. Dorset, made a counter-offer asking for them to pay “two hundred and fifty dollars in cash”
