1. Why do Sam and Bill need money?
2. Who do they choose to kidnap?
3. Why have they selected this particular person to kidnap?
4. What is the boy doing when they pick him up? Is this foreshadowing?
5. Where do they hide the boy after they kidnap him?
6. Tell about four instances Sam and Bill encounter while they have "Red Chief".
7. Why did Sam and Bill sign the ransom note "TWO DESPERATE MEN"?
8. What is the father’s reaction to the ransom note?
9. What is "Red Chief’s" reaction to finally being brought home?

1. What point of view is the story told from?
2. Plot analysis – Give specific details for each of the following:

1. Exposition : the setting, emerging conflict, main characters and mood
2. Conflict
3. Rising Action
4. Climax
5. Falling Action
6. Resolution
1. What type of characterization is used: direct (the author tells the reader what kind of characters they are by using words such as brave, crude, intelligent) or indirect ( the author describes and shows the reader what the characters do or say ? How do we get to know the characters?
2. Is there any irony in the story? What kind: verbal, situational, or dramatic? Explain.
3. Write a sentence about the theme.

Glossary:

1. Undeleterious: harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way <deleterious effects> <deleterious to health>
2. Philoprogenitiveness:1 : tending to produce offspring : prolific 2 : of, relating to, or characterized by love of offspring
3. constables : a high officer of a royal court or noble household especially in the Middle Ages2: the warden or governor of a royal castle or a fortified town
4. diatribe :1archaic : a prolonged discourse2: a bitter and abusive speech or writing3: ironic or satirical criticism
5. provisions
6. buzzard:any of various usually large birds of prey (as the turkey vulture)3: a contemptible or rapacious person
7. imp:  a small demon : fiend b: a mischievous child : urchin
8. reconnoitre: recognize
9. yeomanry:

   1: the body of yeomen; specifically : the body of small landed proprietors of the middle class2: a British volunteer cavalry force created from yeomen in 1761 as a home defense force and reorganized in 1907 as part of the territorial force

10. sylvan:one that frequents groves or woods; living or located in the woods or forest b: of, relating to, or characteristic of the woods or forest
11. somnolent
12. peremptory:putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay; specifically : not providing an opportunity to show cause why one should not comply <a peremptory mandamus>;expressive of urgency or command <a peremptory call>3 a: characterized by often imperious or arrogant self-assurance
13. acceded: to become a party (as to an agreement) b: to express approval or give consent : give in to a request or demand2archaic : approach3: to enter upon an office or position
14. solitary
15. stockade: a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense2 a: an enclosure or pen made with posts and stakes b: an enclosure in which prisoners are kept
16. surreptitiously:done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine 2 : acting or doing something clandestinely : stealthy <a surreptitious glance>
17. wabbled-wobble: to move or proceed with an irregular rocking or staggering motion or unsteadily and clumsily from side to side b: tremble, quaver2: waver, vacillate
18. depredation:to lay waste : plunder, ravage
19. cauterized:to sear with a cautery or caustic <cauterize a wound> ;to make insensible : deaden <must oust the feeling, or cauterize it
20. ineffable:incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable <ineffable joy> b: unspeakable <ineffable disgust>2: not to be uttered : taboo <the ineffable name of Jehovah>
21. palatable
22. calliope: capitalized : the Greek Muse of heroic poetry;a keyboard musical instrument resembling an organ and consisting of a series of whistles sounded by steam or compressed air
23. trippingly:adv. a nimble or lively manner <the new name…may not roll trippingly off the tongue

Title of the Movie: The Ransom of the Red Chief  (genre-drama, horror)

Cast
John Trivolta-the boy’s father
Samuel Jackson-Sam
Bill Cosby-Bill

 Scenes:

Scene 1

-Setting: Summit, a remote town in Alabama
-Event (action): Sam and Bill kidnapped the “Red Chief”

 Scene 2

Setting: the Cave
Event (action):

 Scene 3

 Scene 4

 Ending: You may change the ending by adding more details or imagining what may happen to the devious Red Chief.

Create a Collage for the movie poster ( clip out images from newspaper or magazines and rearrange them in a way  that reveals the nature of the movie-The Ransom of the Red Chief). Remember you are trying to sell the movie. Visit the movie poster site.