This story takes place in a cave near Summit in Alabama. As the narrator of the story says : "
There was a town down there, as flat as a
flannel-cake, and called Summit". The other gives us the example of vivid irony with the help of simile. This setting reflects Bill and the narrator’s personality and the cave resembles their way of life which is moving from a place to another. If the setting was in another place like a village, the father of the kidnapped boy would probably not be able to pay the ransom. And probably the kidnappers wont get their two thousand dollars. Besides,
the criminals chose this town because: "
It contained inhabitants of as undeleterious and
self-satisfied a class of peasantry as ever clustered around a Maypole.
We
knew that Summit couldn't get after us with anything stronger than constables
and, maybe, some lackadaisical bloodhounds and a diatribe or two in the Weekly
Farmers' Budget. So, it looked good".
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