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What Is The Difference Between The Ransom Of Red Chief

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The story and the movie “The Ransom of Red Chief” have a bunch of differences. In the movie, Sam tells a random kid to send a letter to Mr. Dorset. But in the story, Sam took the letter to the post office and a mail man took it to Mr. Dorset. Another difference is that in the story, the kidnappers offered Johnny Dorset some candy and kidnapped him. But in the movie, the kidnappers didn’t offer him candy and just put him in a trunk.

There aren’t only just differences between the story and the movie. There are also some likenesses. First of all, both the movie and the story had Bill getting hurt by Red Chief the most. Also, they both had the father not even having a care for red chief. Finally, both of them had the kidnappers returning Red

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