1. Read the following excerpt from "The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry.
Just at daybreak, I was awakened by a series of awful screams from Bil. They weren't yells, or howls, or shouts, or whoops, or yawps, such as you'd expect from a manly set of vocal organs-they were simply
Indecent, terrifying, humiliating screams, such as women emit when they see ghosts or caterpillars. It's an awful thing to hear a strong, desperate, fat man scream incontinently in a cave at daybreak
I jumped up to see what the matter was. Red Chief was sitting on Bill's chest, with one hand twined in Bill's hair. In the other he had the sharp case-knife we used for slicing bacon and he was industriously and
realistically trying to take Bill's scalp, according to the sentence that had been pror.ounced upon him the evening before.
I got the knife away from the kid and made him lie down again. But, from that moment, Bills spirit was broken. He laid down on his side of the bed, but he never closed an eye again in sleep as long as that boy
was with us. I dozed off for a while, but along toward sun-up I remembered that Red Chief had said I was to be burned at the stake at the rising of the sun. I wasn't
nervous or afraid; but I sat up and lit my pipe
and leaned against a rock
"What you getting up so soon for, Sam?" asked Bill
"Me?" says 1. "Oh, I got a kind of a pain in my shoulder. I thought sitting up would rest R."
"You're a liar!" says Bill "You're afraid. You was to be burned at sunrise, and you was afraid he'd do it. And he would, too, if he could find a match. Ain't it awful, Sam?
Which character from the excerpt shows evidence of being a static character?
A.both bill and Sam
B. Red chief
C. The narrator,sam
D. bill
