![]() ![]() After years of trying, the finally send Andy some books and a letter kindly asking that he stop sending letters. With no funding allotted, Andy was forced to write letters to the state requesting resources. ![]() Andy never abandons the idea that his life was his one and the prison was never going to take that away from him.Īndy’s status at the prison grew, as his position as helped to the warden and other guards not only made him popular with them, but he was able to use his leverage to convince the warden to build a library. Sitting with a little smile on his face, Red realizes that all Andy was trying to do is maybe just get a little piece of his former free life back. A good example of this is when he talks Captain Hadley, the toughest guard at Shawshank, into giving each of his fellow inmates a few beers apiece for tarring the roof, even though he did not drink. More than just hoping for some terrific thing to come and save him from his fate, Andy continuously worked to gain little pieces of himself back, almost as if he were picking up pieces of his shattered life a little at a time. Once Andy proves useful to the prison officials and employees for his financial wizardry, another aspect of his prison life changes. Most viewed Andy as a cold killer, but they came to realize that he was just a bit different. He begins to develop a friendship with fellow inmates, including Ellis “Red” Boyd and his circle of friends. All the while, Andy continues to remain detached, almost removed from the horrible circumstances of the prison, as well as the course of events his life took. ![]() Shawshank Redemption SummaryĪndy endures the initial time at Shawshank, from the humiliating delousing and march into his cell naked, to the constant attacks by fellow inmates that only wish to sodomize him. Even though the new life Andy embarked upon was one filled with suffering, it was still a life and he respected it. He could have very well found a way to end his suffering and kill himself, but he chose to persevere. Or maybe it's just luck - he was due for some.With his wife cheating on him, then tragically killed, and then him becoming the victim of injustice forced to spend the rest of his life behind bars, Andy had every reason to denounce life and living. In the film, he takes a ride out into the country, and though he has to walk around for a while, he locates the box with relative ease. In fact, in the book, he spends weeks searching for the box under the volcanic rock near the old stone wall from Andy's years-old description, all during the downtime from his shift bagging groceries at the store. Instead, he made the part his own and even earned an Oscar nomination for it.Īnother small but significant difference between Red's trajectory in the novel and the film is that he finds the box by searching himself in the book, with less direct guidance from Andy's clues than he has in the film. The sought-after Morgan Freeman even shied away from the role at first because he read the novella and thought, "I can't play an Irishman." Of course, he didn't play one, as the movie creatively worked around including the line by passing it off as a joke. Red's character was Irish in the novel, not African-American. ![]()
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