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This short story “The Ransom of Red Chief” it’s about a boy that takes control of Bill and Sam life's ones they kidnap him. For Example, ”He immediately christened me Snake-eye, the Spy, and announced that, when his braves returned from the warpath, I was to be boiled at the stake at the rising of the sun”. This shows that the kid he's already forcing them to play with him.That he was going to be boiled at the stake at the rising of the sun. Making the two men play with him so he doesn’t get bored. This kid would constantly talk and talk. “ I like this fine. I never camped out before; but I had a pet 'possum once, and I was nine last birthday. I hate to go to school. Rats ate up sixteen of Jimmy Talbot's aunt's speckled hen's eggs.” These are

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