Arguments For Andy

When Tommy Williams entered prison, he quickly made friends with Andy, Red, and the others. After a year later, James revealed to Andy and Red that he met the man who killed Andy’s wife and lover. After knowing the truth, Andy tried to get the warden on board with getting Andy another trial to prove that he was innocent all these while but warden refuse to. The warden wanted to keep Andy so that they can make money. Because of this, the warden would restrict Andy to go anywhere. Andy was trapped in prison and the warden would do anything to keep him there. The warden killed Tommy so that that makes it look like he was trying to escape the prison so he had a “good” reason to get the guards to kill Tommy. Arguments for this kind of behavior is that the warden is doing great things for the prison with all of this money, even has a library in the prison as well. These new things benefit everyone in the prison, so killing one person to make all of these people happier makes good sense. An argument against is that it was completely unnecessary, it is unknown if the trial would have gone anywhere without the known whereabouts of the man who killed Andy’s wife and lover. So killing Tommy was pointless. The argument in the book for this is the wrongness of killing. …show more content…
The warden at some point announces a program where the inmates work outside of the prison doing other things like logging, paving roads, etc. Because of the extremely cheap price the warden is charging for the service of the inmates, he is effectively putting other options out of business. Reasons for doing this is that he is giving the city and state a cheaper option to do this services. Reason against is that it is destroying other businesses and putting people out of the industry. The argument in the book for this is the benefits