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    Hope is what you dream about coming true in your life. The film Shawshank Redemption directed by Frank Darabont is a story about a man called Andy Dufresne. Being convicted for the murder of his wife and her lover. Now he has to live his life in Shawshank prison for the rest of his life. Despite this, Andy tries to make the prison a better place by giving hope to the prisoners. Andy does this by giving beers to his fellow prisoners, plays music throughout the whole prison, and finally builds a library

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    The 1994 drama, The Shawshank Redemption was directed by Frank Darabont, and based off of the Stephen King short story, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. Darabont would later become well known for his work with The Walking Dead. Starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, the film tells the story of Andy Dufrense, portrayed by Robbins, serving life at the Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murder of his wife and her lover, a crime he adamantly claims to not have committed. While imprisoned

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    The 1994 film, The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont, presents a complex and brutal prison environment for both its guards and inmates. Andy Dufresne, an inmate who is wrongly convicted of murder, is faced with several facets of the grim and isolated nature of Shawshank penitentiary. Throughout the film, several correctional concepts are illustrated that present inimitable challenges for both Dufresne as well as other inmates in the prison. The major correctional concepts that shaped

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    The Shawshank Redemption is a movie of a man who is accused of killing his wife and her lover. The main character is imprisoned at Shawshank Prison and there, he suffers and undergoes hardships that he wouldn't have gone through, had they found out earlier that he was innocent the whole twenty years he had been imprisoned. He successfully escaped and managed to avenge for everything he had suffered through. To the people who had made him suffer, he left a departing gift. The image of hope plays

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    Hope is the intrinsic aspiration of attaining one’s wants and needs, and the stringent factor that determines, not who someone is but how their character is sculpted, and is hence an attribute of all humanbeings that is essential for the development of traits such as perseverance and resilliance, whereas the absense of hope can result in failure, fear, despair and even one’s demise. “Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free”, but concurruently, “Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive

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    In Frank Darabont’s American classic The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life in prison for murdering his cheating wife and her lover. As the story goes on, Andy begins to form powerful connections with both prison officials and influential convicts which help him cut through his time at Shawshank Prison. Through a series of emotional moments and plot twists, Andy begins to realize what he truly wants with his life. In particular, three scenes in the film

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    Freedom comes with a price. It may be sacrificing one’s life to defend their country or, in this case, persevering through a series of difficult trials. The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont, opens with Andy Dufresne being convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and sent to Shawshank State Penitentiary where he befriends fellow inmate Ellis “Red” Redding. Since Andy had experience as a banker, the warden uses him to launder money for him under an alias. After twenty years

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    The Shawshank Redemption is an American film written and directed by Frank Darabont. It was filmed the United States—specifically Maine—but the Ohio State Reformatory was set as the fictional Shawshank Prison and in 1994, Castle Rock Entertainment produced the film. Overview and Relevance The general perspective of the film is portrayed through the lives and stories of many of the prisoners of Shawshank. So the general perspective is of different prisoners of different backgrounds, who committed

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    The Shawshank Redemption Throughout human society there has always been a struggle for justice, equality, and control. While these concepts are ideal and socially acceptable to most people they can also lead to a state of being in power for other people. In the film The Shawshank Redemption, the filmmaker achieves a connection with the audience by showing reoccurring instances of the struggle for power between the protagonist Andy Dufresne and Warden Samuel Norton through social status and the

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    The movie Shawshank Redemption is a tale of hope in the midst of despair, of salvation on the other side of suffering. Andy gets sent to the Shawshank prison after being convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover. In the prison he meets Red a prison hustler who can get you anything you need, Red has been at Shawshank for the most of his life also for murder. Andy and Red become friends but Andy has something that Red doesn’t have on the inside, hope “First you hate them, then you get used

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