Hope is important for humans. It allows us to push through the hard times and allows us to keep going with our lives. In the film "The Shawshank Redemption" directed by Frank Darabond the prisoners are an example of why hope is important and what hope does to a person both positively and negatively. First we have Brooke. In the film he was presented with a chance to leave the institution and be free but since Brooke was dependent on Shawshank, he lost all hope causing him to change becoming an unpredictable and dangerous man nearly killing his own friend to stay in the prison. This not only shows the Truthfulness of Red's quote "Hope is Dangerous, Hope can drive a man insane" but also shows how important hope is for humans. When the Covid pandemic hit, lots of humans lost hope. They lost their job, their business, and as a result the lack of hope not only tore families apart but completely changed the people affected …show more content…
A smart and intelligent person who was presented with a chance to be found innocent. This gave Andy hope, A reason to fight and keep going but when the warden denied his request of a retrial, he lost all that hope forcing him to change and become almost broken. When he was released from solitary confinement he was shriveled up in a corner almost with the same thousand yard stares formed in veterans that fought in wars. During those wars, The soldiers that fought saw things that the majority of us will never see in our lives. They saw their fellow friends and sometimes family killed in front of their eyes which (most of the time) stripped their hope away from them making them feel like there's no reason to live or to keep going and as a result it changed them. Broke them. In my opinion this can connect to the way Andy was feeling when he lost that hope. He felt like the inside of the prison was the only place he would get to in his life, breaking him until he was given a new hope, a new reason to keep going. A way to