Shawshank Redemption Compare And Contrast Essay

The way Shawshank Redemption is portrayed with similarities and differences between the novella and the movie is that the plot and climax are completely different. The novella is written by Stephen King and is titled: "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption." The movie is directed by Frank Darabont and is called: The Shawshank Redemption. There are many things such as the way the warden 's punishment was incorporated differently in the movie that the novella did not give insight through towards the plot and the climax. The novella and the movie have completely different plot structures in which the movie does a fantastic job at displaying a better job in comparison to the novella. The way the director, Darabont, establishes a distinction

Just how the characters are the same, Andy 's problems are still the same. Andy still has to deal with the sisters and this goes hand in hand with the movie, but the plot and climax changes. A way that the movie 's plot is different is that Andy sets up the warden, named Norton, to be framed, unlike in the novella. In the movie, Andy has been helping the warden make fake money checks and has been keeping tracks of the checks in a book in the warden 's office in a safe. Before Andy escaped through the sewer system he had a duplicate book and switched the information and put the duplicate book, which was a bible, in the safe and escaped with the actual book thus, setting up Norton. he frames Norton in the movie, unlike in the novella, and Andy is finally free. In the movie, Norton realizes what Andy has done after he escaped. With police at the warden 's office door, Norton commits suicide with a revolver to his head. In the novella, which is different, instead of Andy framing the warden whose name is also Norton, Andy just escapes from Shawshank. After Andy escaped they searched for him for three long months. The police did not find a single trail of Andy besides his old prison clothes near the sewage dump. The warden, Norton, retired after three months of Andy 's

In the movie, Tommy comes to Shawshank and he does not have his High School diploma. After learning that Tommy does not have his diploma, Andy helps him to take his test to graduate from High School. After months of Andy tutoring and teaching tommy, it was finally time for Tommy to take his final test. While Tommy was taking the final test, he gets angry and storms out after throwing the test away. Without Tommy knowing it, Andy still turned his test in and he passed. Tommy decides to return the favor to Andy and Tommy tells of a murderer that Tommy spent some time with in another prison that matches to the story of the way his wife and her lover were killed. Since Andy was close to the warden by helping him wrote falsified checks, Andy asks Norton to look in to this guy that 's located at a different prison. Norton agrees but talks to Tommy first about the information Tommy told Andy. Norton secretly talks to Tommy outside of the prison at night. As Tommy is convincing Norton to check in to the other prisoner at another prison, Tommy gets shot in the back by one of the prison guards. Norton set Tommy up to make it look like he escaped. The following morning the prison heard of Tommy trying to escape. Andy 's chances of getting out of Shawshank were gone. In the book, Tommy comes to Shawshank and he is later transferred out to another