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"The Shawshank Redemption" starts off with the familiar brutality of a prison movie. Convicted in the late 1940s for the murder of his wife and her lover, banker Tim Robbins is thrown into the slammer (the Shawshank penitentiary in Maine) for two consecutive life sentences. Seasoned inmate Morgan Freeman—the narrator in this story—watches as the soft-spoken, vulnerable prisoner undergoes the inevitable gang rape. Prison, Freeman tells the audience in that inimitably authoritative voice, "is no…

Daltin Smith Mrs. Horn English 11, 5th Period January 28th, 2015 “To Gain Redemption” Redemption is not already possessed, it is gained. Redemption is the act of repenting for what sins you have done, and being saved/forgiven by God from sin. One of the main characters, Mr. Shiftlet, tries to show us how to gain redemption. Sadly he was too late and his method was not enough for what he had done. In the book “The Life You Save May be Your Own”, Flannery O’Connor uses symbols, imagery, and…

million to almost 2.3 million (www.prisonstudies.org). Looking at The Shawshank Redemption (1994), the viewers see the elements of prison rehabilitation and incarceration at work. Unfortunately, for many of the prison bound, most tend to stay in prison. As seen through analyzing The Shawshank Redemption, getting rehabilitated to adapt to the outside world, and breaking…

The daily life of an incarcerated individual is spent wasting away the hours, searching for a glimpse of hope in their personal lives. The media, especially in the film industry, has portrayed what can be defined as a “utopian” life, as life outside of prison, a complete opposite of the dystopian characteristics of being incarcerated. The search for a “utopian” lifestyle is “analogous to a quest for grace which is both existential and relational” (Klonowska). To an average person, an…

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,…

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 the movie The Shawshank Redemption, Frank Darabont displays the characters in plan to illustrate how Shawshank prison was a hopeless and dreadful place; only the ambition of Andy is what will help him escape. How Andy handled situations in the prison is going to help Andy in…

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…

Vinoth Loganathan Mark 3.9 Frank Darabont – Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile Anne Bradstreet once said “Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.” Frank Darabont effectuates this simple principal in his work. He successfully illustrates and imparts this comprehension into the mind of his viewers making his impact in the world. It can be drawn that this principle is close to his heart as it is craftily presented in most of his works. Frank…

Pulp Fiction is a film directed by Quentin Tarantino, which stars John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, and Samuel L. Jackson, and it was released October 14, 1994. It takes a very different approach to film by using a vignette style with each vignette not necessarily in order. It follows the lives of several characters that revolve around the gang boss Marcellus Wallace, and how they intertwine. Vincent (Travolta) and Jules (Jackson) are two hitmen for Marcellus and they are charged with…

Prison Break Carmela Estrella B. Enriquez // BAJ 2-1D They locked him up in a closet for Twenty-four years but, he found a way out. He is, in fact, a mechanical engineer, bred with ingenuity and sparked with the right amount of madness. Twenty-four years he was locked up by the society’s machoism but one decision gave him the key to freedom. “I really learned how to strive hard and earn something from myself not from my parents, not from the people around me” he says. “Basically, that's my…