Short Essay On The Shawshank Redemption

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Losing something that you have had for a long time can affect the way you act and feel. In the movie The Shawshank Redemption, Andy, experiences the death of his wife. The movie follows Andy Dufresne who is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to a tough prison. However, only Andy knows he didn’t commit the crimes. Andy deals with the death of freedom by helping the prison employees with their financial problems, expanding the library and planning an escape in prison.
Andy uses his knowledge and understanding to help manage financial matters for the prison employees. At first, Andy helped Captain Hadley legally shelter his inheritance money from his dead brother and later helped another guard, Mr. Decans, with his children’s trust funds. This led Andy to reassign to another job in prison, an …show more content…

Andy is reassigned to another job in prison to assist with an elderly inmate, Brooks Hatlen. When Andy had a chat with Brooks about how he was able to manage to work in a small library in prison by himself for 50 years. At that point, Andy thought it would be a great idea to ask the warden to expand the library. When he found out the warden wasn’t able to provide enough money for new books and to reconstruct the library, Andy took action and started to write letters daily to the state government for funds to help improve the decaying library. It took 6 months for Andy to receive a letter back from the state government, numerous amounts of used books and a $200 cheque to help build a new and improve library in prison. Andy had high hopes that he could perhaps change things around in prison by never giving up. If I was in a similar situation, I would also do my best achieving my goal no matter what circumstances I face. Andy used his ability to persuade the warden to expand the library leading him to reach his

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