Response To Cultural Adaptation

Andy’s hope throughout the novella illustrates that hope is a positive quality to have in order to get through difficult situation in life. For example, Andy is persistent writing letters to the state, asking for more money for building a better library. This suggests that Andy is hopeful for additional funds for his library, which not only improve his relationship with the other prisoners, but also insures he is on good terms with the guards and is left alone while planning to escape. King uses this to reveal how hope can be constructive towards forming a better life, even when stuck in a terrible place such as prison. Additionally, when a new prisoner comes to Shawshank with evidence that Andy is innocent, Andy does not give up hope. When Warden Norton tells Andy that any attempt to prove his innocence won’t work, Andy exclaims, “Well, it’s a chance, isn’t it?”(King 66). This confirms that Andy hasn’t let himself become institutionalized and desires to leave prison and prove his innocence. Andy’s hope leads him to not be afraid of questioning authority, even though he is powerless. Without hope, Andy will be controlled by Norton and exploited. Furthermore, when Andy is talking to Red about escaping to Mexico, Red describes that Andy “strolled off, as if he were a free man who had just made another

Prisoners like Brooks were trained to like routine for so long, that they became used to the way they were treated. Andy became subject to extortion when the administrator used him to do their tax returns ; “By April of 1951, Andy was doing the tax returns for half the screws at Shawshank , and by 1952, he was doing almost all of them” (51) This quotation shows that lack of empathy , and morals used by the administration at Shawshank. Shawshank as a prison was highly corrupt and the prisoners suffered from mental abuse by use of extortion and punishment.

A man by the name of Andy Dufresne was convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in Shawshank prison. He was an obvious black sheep among the prisoners, but as time went on he grew relationships with the crooks and realized the injustice in the justice system. In the creation of friendship between Red and Andy, hope was spread throughout the prison. While many themes are present in the film The Shawshank Redemption, hope, friendship, and injustice are also relevant in the world today.

reds relationship with the guards and inmates are the only reason red has had a successful stay at shawshank. throughout shawshank red makes many deals with the guards not only improving his time at shawshank but giving him a higher status in the prison " Nine or Ten names drawn out of hat and two of them happend to be Andy's and my own" (Page 40) It can most deffinitely be inferred that red made some sort of deal with the gaurds to get the both of them on the roof top considering it was a desired job and nearly seventy other men also wanted the job. Red's relationship withthe gaurds gets him the things he wants when he wants giving him a more positive outlook on the time he is serving. Red is known as the man who can get you things arounf shawshank. Nearly everyone comes to him for anything from cigarettes to a rock hammer. He not only makes a profit off of the items he gets for people he gains a source of power within the prison. Red being the man who can get things is really what sparked the relationship between Andy and Red. " I heard your the man who knows how to get things" (Pg 27) Short but sweet some of the first words shared by andy to red. This is a major monent in the novella because this

Andy’s hope of escaping Shawshank prison to Mexico is used by King to show the reader how hope can be a positive quality to have, such as Andy who uses hope as motivation to not become institutionalized. Andy is persistent writing letters to the state, asking for more money for building a better library. This shows that Andy is hopeful for additional funds for his library, which not only gets him on better ground with the

His example of hope was more drawn out and thought over. His plan to escape prison took years upon years. He had to gain the trust of his inmates and the guards to get his plan in progress. While he was hopeful his plan would work to escape he had other things going on throughout his years at Shawshank. Andy was sought out by many of the men in prison.

At the beginning of the Shawshank Redemption, Andy gets framed for the murder of his cheating wife. Which makes his life take a darker turn with him going to Shawshank prison. Shawshank prison is one of the worst prisons ever, the prison guards abuse the prisoners, and the warden orders them to do so and will do anything for money. The prison uses fear as a way to keep the prisoners in line. When you first show up to Shawshank they take you in, strip you down, and spray you with water. After that, they throw this powder on you then give you your clothes and walk you to your cell naked. The prisoners have a game to see who breaks down first, so they yell at the new prisoners until one breaks. Their goal is to break the person they bet on this shows fear because when a new prisoners break they cry and become very scared and the one who broke in the film was murdered by a guard.

In the criminal justice system, violence and barbarity run rampant, increasing the death toll of prisoners that died due to attacks against other prisoners. In The Shawshank Redemption, it is heavily impressed that this violence creates many problems for the prison guard and new prisoners that haven’t yet adapted to the life they have entered. In fact, Andy himself was brutally beaten and raped repeatedly despite being completely new to life in prison by a group called the Sisters. This group has been known to rape many prisoners throughout the years they have been there. Despite the fact that Andy is the one being attacked, these attacks often land him in the infirmary and, sometimes, solitary confinement. Another example of prisoner brutality would be the death of a new prisoner that came in at the same time as Andy. On his first night, he was distressed, facing the horrible reality that this would be his life forever when prisoners started slandering him. A few

Andy appears to be good hearted man, which is what makes us believe he was innocent. He also shows the quiet side of him when he first arrived at the prison. Red is the narrator of this film, a man who had killed someone in his teens. He was also able to smuggle almost anything into the prison from the outside world.

Society can quickly make us institutionalized individuals who follow a continuous cycle. In this world, there is fear and hope, but it is up to the individual by which he will choose to live. Everyone has those moments when it seems impossible to overcome the situation, but it’s just a matter of how the person deals with it to become a better person. In The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont, Darabont symbolizes how one doesn’t have to be in a prison to feel like one is trapped. If one doesn’t have hope, one is still a prisoner. Andy Dufrense, played by Tim Robbins, Red Boyd Redding, “Red”, played by Morgan Freeman, Warden Samuel Norton, played by Bob Gunton, and Brooks Hatlen, played by James Whitmore, play a vital role exemplifying the havoc fear can cause if hope is not present and how life can be more meaningful when it exist. In The Shawshank Redemption, there are constant waves of fear and hope, but hope is the only factor able to set a “prisoner” free.

If book were set in a different prison, Andy wouldn’t have the same opportunity he had at Shawshank, as stated in the book by Red “it would have taken 600 years to break through the wall with the rock hammer” hence, Andy and Red staying in prison waiting for the chance of parole. However, in Andy’s case maybe resulting in a retrial and is

Andy Dufresne arrives at Shawshank Prison in 1947. He has been given a life sentence for murdering his wife and her lover in cold blood. After having lived a straight and narrow life as a successful banker before imprisonment, Andy maintains his innocence throughout the movie. Red describes Andy as having a quite way about him. “He strolled, like a man in a park without a care or a worry in the world.” When Andy first approaches Red, it’s to acquire a rock hammer that he can use to carve the stones in the yard to make chess pieces. Andy understands that in Shawshank, Red is the man that can get you things. Red agrees and over the next few years they become close friends.

Throughout the millions of years that humans have existed in the world, we have continued to grow, evolve, and change with the times. As our towns grew to cities and our huts grew to houses and buildings we continued to grow and adapt to these changes to live a better life. The two main ways that adapt is through biological adaption and cultural adaption. While both of these help us grow, they do so in very different ways. Biological adaption is the ways in which for example we adapt to harsher weather conditions. For example, shivering when we get cold or sweating when we are hot are examples of biological adaption (Kottak). Cultural adaption is when people create culture to further society. Creating tools and technology in order to further propel society as

The film talks about the prisoners being “institutionalized”, and the thought of spending the majority of one’s life inside a penitentiary would scare anyone (Politics and Film). There comes a time when a prisoner becomes very accustomed to the life they were living inside prison that they were dreading the day when they had to leave and go back to the society as a reformed person (Politics and Film). In the film, Brooks tried to hurt a fellow prisoner just so he could stay in Shawshank. Each of the prisoners inside Shawshank is locked up metaphorically as well as literally (Cinematic Carcerality: Prison Metaphors in Film). The forms of isolation in Shawshank range from the large, enclosed recreation yard to the small work crews down to the cellblock, cells and solitary confinement literally (Cinematic Carcerality: Prison Metaphors in Film). The bars, strict schedules, heartless prison guards and predatory sisters add a sense of entrapment to the layers of isolation (Cinematic Carcerality: Prison Metaphors in Film). There are also examples of socioeconomic diversity in the film. Andy shares an idea with the prison guards who are unaware of the tax law. Also, when Andy explains to Red about what a rock hammer is or stones (Cinematic Carcerality: Prison Metaphors in Film). When The Shawshank Redemption was first released it

An important factor at Shawshank prison that would have altered the story of Rita Hayworth and Shawshanks Redemption, a novella written by Stephen King, if it had occurred in a different setting, meaning another prison would have been the large courtyard that contributed towards the book’s ending. First and foremost, the courtyard where Red does his special trading of contraband items was larger than any prison in the country, as aforementioned in the book, “Our yard is big, much bigger than most. It’s a perfect square, ninety yards on a side.” Red, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank’s Redemption, chapter 2 First contact/ the sisters, page 27. Accordingly, it was easy for him to trade, as there was sufficient room for him to deal and get out safely. Arguably, if the book were set in a different prison, Red undoubtedly would not have had the job he had at Shawshank. Conversely, Andy wouldn’t have approached Red for a rock hammer, dozens of rock blankets and/or the countless sizable pin-up queen posters. Furthermore, were