Dexter Morgan

To think or not to think. To wonder or not to wonder. That is the question. Sociology comes up in many ways in The Shawshank Redemption defines a large multitude of sociological terms. The instances in this movie are tragic, concerning, and yet wonderful. They make your mind jog at the speed of light as you realize “That’s a social group!” or “That’s a style of Culture!”. So many instances that in fact, the list would possibly consist of 76% of the sociological knowledge. This movie truly does…

Introduction A journey is often more important than the destination you reach; a popular message that is represented in both the films Cool Hand Luke and Shawshank Redemption. Both of these movies focus on the themes of determination and self worth, even while being set in the bleak lives of prisoners in intense prisons with seemingly no hope. Still, these films create a sense of motivational drive in individuals and have even changed the lives of the people who view them. Furthermore, it is…

A moving story about an up and coming banker Andrew “Andy” Dufresne (Tim Robbins) who finds himself an inmate at the Shawshank prison. There, he learns how to adapt to prison life and learns about life through fellow prison inmates who become his friends. The Shawshank Redemption was released in 1994, the movie was written and directed by Frank Darabont but based on Stephen King’s “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”. Andrew Dufresne, known as Andy in the film is the main character. He is…

obstacle and fears we encounter. Approaching obstacles with confidence will ease fear that hinders our goals. The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont, illustrates how Andy Dufresne, played by Tim Robbins, Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, played by Morgan Freeman, and Brooks Hatlen, played by James Whitmore, react to the repercussions of despair and the promise of hope. In 1947, Andy is wrongly convicted of butchering his wife and is sentenced to life in prison. In prison he meets Red, an…

Prison is not a friendly place. Knowing that point, does prison have to be a place where one’s life comes to an end? In the United States, there is an incarceration rate of almost 700 people to every 100,000 people; this means the United States has the highest prison population in the world; over a period of ten years (2000-2010), the number of prisoners has increased from 1.937 million to almost 2.3 million (www.prisonstudies.org). Looking at The Shawshank Redemption (1994), the viewers see the…

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Essential Questions: How does having a belief (in something or someone) help us to conquer fear and keep hope alive? Answer: having a belief in someone help us conquer fear because it leads to a greater hope in the future. Throughout the movie, Andy establishes a close relationship with Red and before Andy left, he told Red that to find a rock in a location in the middle of nowhere to find Andy in Mexico. When Red was released, he had the hope to find andy and…

The Shawshank Redemption is my favorite film of all time and I can almost watch the whole film just by closing my eyes. The film is about a man named Andy Dufesne who is sent to prison on belief that he had killed his wife and the man she was cheating on him with. He is only a banker who claims to be innocent to the crime and is found guilty and sentenced to life in prison at the Shawshank State Penitentiary. While he is at Shawshank he remains to believe that he himself is innocent while the…

Two men with the same name who grew up in thee same part of town have very different fates based on many different aspects of their lives. The Other Wes Moore is a story written by Moore himself. He tells the story of both their lives and how they started the same but ended with him being a Rhodes scholar and the other Wes in jail for the rest of his life because he murdered a cop. Both of these men had influences that made their lives so different today. Parent influences, personal experiences,…

Through the days in Shawshank, Andy never lost hope. Loosing hope inside of Shawshank is like Captain Hadley beating “Fat Ass” in the first scenes. “Fat Ass” lost all hope as soon as the prison doors shut and he knew there was no escape. Andy took this into consideration to always have his guard up and not let things get to him. When meeting Red he met somebody who reflected Andy’s life. Seeing how Red was a down to earth guy helped Andy throughout his time in Shawshank prison. The director of…

Shawshank Redemption takes place in Maine in the middle of the twentieth century. The narrator is known as “the guy that can get it for you (1),” referring to a guy that can get things those in prison might want, like cigarettes, alcohol, or anything else within reason. This makes him a very important man in prison, because in order to get what people want, he has to have connections on the inside and outside. Given that he is the only one the reader knows about that is able to do this, he seems…