Rising Events introduces us the criminals plan" Bill and Sam kidnap Ebenezer’s son ( The kid was a boy of ten, with bas-relief freckles, and hair the colour of the cover of the magazine you buy at the news-stand when you want to catch a train. ) and hide him in a cave.
- They keep his son in the cave and send the father a letter demanding to be pay ransom in order to get his son back.
- The men start to get bothered by the son. In this section, the father realizes that his son was kidnapped. The author shows how the kidnappers treat Ebenezer’s son , how the men lived in the cave , and a part of their personalities. The author also shows how they plan to collect the money but the difficulties with the kid's behavior makes men (especially Bill) nervous and tired : I suppose you'll think I'm a renegade, but I couldn't help it. I'm a grown person with masculine proclivities and habits of self-defence, but there is a time when all systems of egotism and predominance fail. The boy is gone. I have sent him home. All is off. There was martyrs in old times," goes on Bill, "that suffered death rather than give up the particular graft they enjoyed. None of 'em ever was subjugated to such supernatural tortures as I have been. I tried to be faithful to our articles of depredation; but there came a limit." Bill sends the kid home but Red Chief comes back because there he has fun. That brings Bill nervous break down : Bill turns and sees the boy, and loses his complexion and sits down plump on the ground and begins to pluck aimlessly at grass and little sticks. For an hour I was afraid for his mind."
Climax of the story :the father suggests that they return his son and pay him two hundred and fifty dollars. In return he will take his son of their hands. In this section the kidnappers are forced to accept the offer and return Johnny home and pay the ransom to the father: " One more night of this kid will send me to a bed in Bedlam. Tell you the truth, Bill," says I, "this little he ewe lamb has somewhat got on my nerves too. We'll take him home, pay the ransom and make our get-away."
Anticlimax : -Bill and Sam take the kid back home.
-They pay the ransom.
-The father allows the kidnappers to run away.
In this part , things seem to head towards a resolution. And the men stick to the preposition. The men are forced to return the son without getting any money.
"How
long can you hold him?" asks Bill.
"I'm not as strong as I used to be," says old
Dorset, "but I think I can promise you ten minutes."
"Enough,"
says Bill. "In ten minutes I shall cross the Central, Southern and Middle
Western States, and be legging it trippingly for the Canadian border."
Resolution: The kidnappers escape, and head outside Summit to the Canadian Borders without the money.
There is no doubt that the conflict in this story is external. Two men who are in need of money decide to kidnap a well known citizen’s son in order to get a ransom of two thousand dollars. The conflict is introduced to us from the beginning of the story. It could also be described as man versus man , since the story describes how they kidnapped the kid
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