Raeann Tabor Critical thinking According to time.com, 120 out of 3,000 prisoners are wrongfully accused of a crime. Meanwhile, 105 out of 100,000 inmates commit suicide a year. Everyone faces difficult times in their lives that lead them to choose between two options where both could lead to bad things. In the movie Shawshank Redemption, three characters faced dilemmas that lead to a good time after prison or death after prison. The first dilemma that was portrayed in the movie was the death of Brooks Hatlen. Brooks was an inmate at shawshank and was also one of the oldest. He ran the library at the prison and was released into the real world. When he was released he was a bagger at a local grocery store and lived in a hathaway house. Brooks soon realised he was never going to be able to live anywhere else or work a better job. Brooks faced one of the biggest …show more content…
Andy was sentenced two life sentences in prison for the murder of his wife and the man she was sleeping with. Andy was wrongfully accused of the murder and sat in prison for nearly twenty years. He noticed that he was wrongfully convicted after a new inmate told him a story about a cellmate he had killing a lady and man. The story the new inmate told him was the story of Andy’s wifes murder. Working for the warden, Andy was able to swap bank statements and took care of the wardens financials and taxes. He swapped the money out and put a letter in the folder and put the letter in the safe. There were only two choices Andy had. Those two choices where to sit in prison for the rest of his life for no reason or break out of prison risk the chances of being caught and going back to prison. Andy broke out of the prison and was able to be set free with a new identity and a ton of money. Before escaping, Andy told Ellis about a spot where there was money stashed away and directions to where Andy would be