The situation irony in The Ransom of Red Chief creates humor and developing them by giving little hints about what will happen and what might happen. Situation irony is a discrepancy of what will happen and what might happen. In movies or TV shows. The Ransom of Red Chief has a lot of examples of irony.
The first example is how the boy thinks that he is going camping but really he is being kidnapped and sold back to his parents. According to paragraph 16 sentence 1 it states"I like this fine. I've never camped out before" This means that the boy didn't know what was happening and he just enjoyed it. He talked and talked on and on after that while eating. They probably expected him to be afraid or scared, but he seemed quite happy with living in a cave with two men that he has never seen before in his entire life. Also how the little boy just seem to take over and be the head of office or something like that. In Paragraph 12 it says"Ha! cursed paleface do you dare enter the camp of Red Chief, the terror of the plains." Which basically means that the little boy didn't know what was going on and he didn't care he was just having fun and making the best out of being away from home.
The next example is what they expect the boy to be like when they pick him up form his house they said that he put up a …show more content…
Sam and Bill didn't expect to have the little boy to be so happy and having what seem to be the best day of his life. The irony of that was the men lost even more money than what they wanted to gain. They also lost a boy that they could have sold or gotten more money from the little boys father. The situation irony in the The Ransom of Red Chief created humor and developed them by giving the audience something to laugh and enjoy about while also making the characters think about their