Questions

What happens to Andy and Red?
They become friends as both of them have been sentenced to life.

What do we learn from Andy and Reds characters introduction to Shawshank?
Red is a man who can get things. Andy is smart and intelligent, good with numbers.

What do we learn of the nature of the prison? Give examples
Rough, do what you have to do to stay alive; you will be punished if you do/say anything wrong or out of place. ‘Fatty’ is beaten to a pulp as he doesn’t stop crying.

What does Andy endure in the first few years?
Andy doesn’t really bond with anyone, he sticks to himself and doesn’t do anything wrong. He is chased down be the sisters and is raped. He is also scared of the guards and finds a way to become friends with them so he does there tax rebate.

What does the library represent to Andy?
Each week Andy would send off letters asking for money and second hand books for the prison library as Brooks kills himself when he is released from prison. Andy took over the library and made it for Brooks. He didn’t receive anything for two years and after a while he gets some books, he finds hope to keep doing it. He wants to help people learn and get them to pass school so when they do leave that they can get a good job.

Identify a scene were music is important
Music is important in this scene as he plays music and locks himself in the room and plays it over the loud speaker for all to hear, but in his actions he is treated to the hole.

Timeline, will be updated

Start
- Andy is framed in court
- Andy is taken to Shawshank prison
- We meet Red as he bets on who will be the first to break down in the prison.
- They meet warden and chief guard
- He gets his new clothes and a wash down
- ‘fatty’ gets bashed as he doesn’t stop crying
- Has breakfast by himself
- Bug asks if he needs a friend when they are in the showers together
- Andy first talks to Red and asks for a rock hammer
- Red warns Andy about sisters
- Andy gets raped by men
- Andy gets rock hammer
- Andy bargains with guards for suds with his co-workers
- Andy and co-workers chill on the roof with suds
- Andy asks for Rita Haywood
- Andy gets beaten up because he won’t do as bugs asks
- Bugs gets sent to the hole
- When bugs gets out of the whole he is beaten by guards and is paralyzed

Shawshank

Shawshank Redemption

I found that the library was a turning point in this movie as Andy was able to change the how he and others were treated in Shawshank. When he was sent to go work with brooks in the library, but both had no idea why Andy was there. Andy would help out Brooks with his runs but one day things changed as he told a prison guard how he wouldn’t loss all the money he inherited. Andy was nearly thrown of the roof for asking and suggestion such an idea, so after Andy was doing tax returns for all of the prison guards and others from other prisons in football season. Andy took control on how was treated in Shawshank as everyone was relying on him to do the taxes. Soon after he was doing taxes for the warden and the prison, which was a massive surprise. Brooks was let out of prison after spending his whole life in prison; once he was released he struggled to survive on the outside so he committed suicide. Andy felt as a friend of brooks he needed to do something to remember him. Andy started writing a letter a week to the board of prisons asking for money to do up the prison library and get new books. After two years he got a letter back with a box of books and two hundred dollars for them to spruce up the library. He said that he would start writing two letters a week now and after a while he got the funds to do up the library, so he and Red rebuilt up the library for Brooks. There were new books and magazines for prisoners to get there school education and Andy would tutor them. Andy knew this was the right thing to do as brooks spent his whole life in there and the library meant everything to him. They named the library after brooks.


Redemption
Mans deliverance from sin and damnation. the act or and instance of being redeemed