Redemption Rock

The Shawshank redemption is a film set in the 1940's where a young banker by the name of Andy Dufresne is sentenced to life in Portland, Oregon based Shawshank prison on a false accusation of murdering his wife and another man. The rest of the movie is based around his journey to find his identity as well as his freedom and hope in order to survive. In this maximum security prison of Shawshank, prison life is designed to be harsh and breakdown the inmate’s spirits. On the inside the inmates…

Life for Stanley Yelnats is good, family, friends, school. One mistake changed his life. Finding a pair of shoes, and keeping them, getting chased by the cops, this is no mistake, this is bad luck. Four generations of bad luck, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He has a choice, jail, or sent to Camp Green Lake for 18 months. He decides Camp Green Lake instead of jail. Camp Green Lake changed his life, digging holes everyday for 18 months. One certain hole changed his family’s curse and…

After they had just escaped from the maze, our new beloved group of teens is on the run again, this time with baddies in hot pursuit. They’ve discovered that their would-be protectors, known as WCKD pronounced wicked, have something nasty planned for them. With that knowledge they fight their way through a zombie-riddled post-apocalyptic city and desert in hopes of finding the rumoured resistance movement, known as The Right Arm. The movie is filled with action, drama, and has even a small…

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 both “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption” written by Stephen King and in The Shawshank Redemption written and directed by Frank Darabont, Red tells us early in the story that Andy did not commit the crime he was Jailed for. Injustice can be defined many ways the most relevant being “violation of the rights of others; unjust or unfair action or treatment.” The theme of injustice is used throughout both works to further enhance and unfold the story. Andy Dufresne was one of the few…

The Shawshank Redemption is a movie directed by Frank Darabont and based off a novel by Stephen King called Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. It follows a main character, Andy Dufresne, after he is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover and he is sentenced to life in jail. While he is serving his sentence, he becomes friends with another inmate, Red. He also finds himself being protected by the guards after the warden of the prison begins using him for an illegal money…

The two movies I choose are Talladega Nights and Hardball. Hardball is an inspiring story in which a man who is on a bad path in lights loses all his money, and is forced to coach a baseball team of underprivileged kids and ends up caring for them. He leads the tea to a championship, and they lose a player to a gunshot, but they join together and win! Talladega Nights is the story of Ricky Bobby, a race car driver who was mistreated and abandoned by his father. He thought that he had to win to…

After being imprisoned of a crime that he did not commit, fourteen year old Alex Sawyer Thought that he had escape from the hellish place of Furnace Penitentiary. He had a perfect plan, he even felt the fresh, cool air on his face. But then the dogs came. Instead of escaping the hell he was in he finds himself where new darker horrors await him, in solitary confinement. Solitary is the next book of the Furnace series, Alexander Gordon Smith has made a very fascinating thriller. I was going to…

Deriving Power from Injury Evaniya Shakya Eastwood, a small neighborhood in Chicago, is weighed down by the world’s view of them; poor, predominantly black, violent and in need of “help” (9). In Renegade Dreams, Ralph tells the story of activists, gang leaders, patients and teenagers while constantly refusing to portray them as victims. He does not want our judgments clouded by statistics like “57% of all Eastwoodians were involved in some way in the criminal justice system” (10). He…

After committing a wrong or failing in some way, there are many people that believe they need to be punished for their offenses, with the reason behind it varying and sometimes unclear to whomever is observing their situation. Amir, the main character and narrator from Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, betrays his brother, Hassan, by abandoning him in his greatest time of need: Hassan is raped and otherwise abused by a group of boys that are easily able to overpower him. Despite the fact that…