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A brief Synopsis of the Shawshank Redemption in 1946 a man named Andy was convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover. He is sent to jail were the inmates are giving him a hard time with the adjustment of prison life. Making things harder the Prison is filled with corrupted Correctional Officers from the warden on down to the lowest Correctional Officer; Allowing Violent crimes to happen in the prison such sexual assault, murder, and abuse of inmates. Andy is forced to work for the Warden. Andy a former banker uses his banking skills to help out the warden plus some guards, doing business schemes and helping with investments of most of the prison staff. In exchange, he is able to improve the prison library. Today’s prison population …show more content…

They also can no longer relate to civilian life-style or understand it anymore. Inmates should have some source of educational material allowing them to learn a trade or educated themselves to prepare for the outside word and prevent them from returning to prison; when it comes to books and educational material of course the money topic arises, with free labor inmates can work towards something and see their hard work pay off. Let’s say a company out sources to prison for services to produces material inmates can work and the prison can use that money to buy books, also provide teachers willing to teach in jail; this will allow inmates to learn a trade or reach educational milestones such as a GED. After serving years in prison you found find out you’re not guilty and the evidence is found that exonerates you. Personally I would like an apology from the prosecutor, judge and all those involved. What should be the states responsibility to an inmate, a Back pay of an average salary of a government worker to the inmate based on the amount of years served/ Free college tuition due to the lack of educational opportunities in jail/clean record of the inmate/and the finding of a

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When he escaped, he left Shawshank out of a woman, his pin-up girl, and crawled through 500 yards of muck to freedom. He was "reborn" as a free man. Put this all together, and the theme portrayed by Andy Dufresne is that hope, more specifically hope for a

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The Shawshank prison is a corrupt prison with underhanded actions from the guards and inmates. Before Andy Dufresne entered prison, he was a banker and he followed the law, like a ruler. When Andy was put in prison

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In the visual text Shawshank Redemption director, Frank Darabont, uncovers the impact of institutionalization on prisoners showing that in prisons inmates lose all self-reliance and fall into a monotonous routine forgetting the independence needed to survive in the outside world. There is an emphasis on this idea in the scene of Brooks’ demise. Darabont focuses on the techniques; lighting of Brooks’ face in the library, the slow dolly to his face in the bus, as well as acting, dialogue and a low angle shot to show the idea of institutionalization. Together they all show the impact institutionalization had on Brooks’. Brooks’ demise scene opens with a mid tracking shot of Brooks in the library being lit by light coming through the window freeing his pet crow, Jake.

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In an institution where you have little to no control inmates tend to allow people to do as they please because that’s the way it always has been and will be. In Shawshank there’s a group that they refer to as “the sisters,” this group specifically targets and preys on the weak, inexperienced, and young. Andy was a target as soon as he walked into Shawshank, every chance they got they would corner him and try to get what they wanted. One day, behind the washers in the laundry room Andy was threatening them with Hexlite he tripped and fell and in that instant they jumped him. After “the sisters” accomplished their goal in the laundry, they came after him one more time and as Red says, “He must have come to the conclusion that others before him had come to, namely, that there are only two ways to deal with the sisters: fight them and get taken, or just get taken…

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Life constantly bombards us with series of twists and turns which we inevitably have to battle. In these times of struggle, we often look up into the light for small glimmers of hope that helps motivates us to push forwards. While we struggle, hope has always been by our side. In Stephen King’s novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, and its film adaptation, directed by Frank Darabont, The Shawshank Redemption, the theme of hope is perpetuated through Red’s character. It tells a life story about Andy Dufresne, a life sentenced convict who proclaims his innocence, who is sent to Shawshank prison.

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