Shawshank Redemption
In the movie The Shawshank Redemption, the movie shows how prison life affects prisoners when they are released from jail. Prisoners can choose to go down two different paths. One path they can take is to live their life, or they can choose to take their life. In the movie there is an important character named Andy. Andy was put in jail for the murder of his wife, which he knows he did not do. He becomes good friends with Red and the Guards like him because he is a banker. Andy is an outspoken prisoner with a lot of common sense. In one part of the movie Andy says, "Get busy living or get busy dying." This quote plays an important role in the movie because Red and Brooks who are two important characters get out of jail and must make the choice to either "Get busy living or get busy dying." When people are in jail for a long period of time, they get used to the simplest things in life. Prisoners get food, have a place to sleep, have clothes to wear, and have books to read. They adapt to the guards always telling them when to wake up or when to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. Prisoners get so used to these things that when they get out of jail, they don't know what to do with themselves. They h
Red had been in jail for a long time, as well. Red was denied parole several times because he told the parole board what he thought they wanted to hear everytime. One day when he went in a told a different story from the heart and the board approved him. Red talked to Andy before Andy left. Andy told Red that if he left, he should go to this place by a long stone wall under a big oak tree standing alone and find a rock that doesn't belong there. Red was at first scared to leave Shawshank. When he got out, his parole officer got him the same apartment that Brooks had lived in. Red also contemplated killing himself. "Why am I still living? What do I have to live for?" he thought. Then he thought about what Andy told him about joining him in Mexico by the clear blue water. Red decided that he would get on living his life. Red broke his parole and went down to Mexico where Andy was. Unlike Brooks, Red "got busy living." Brooks was an older man who had been in jail for many years. When Brooks heard about his release he grabbed another prisoner and took a sharp tool to his neck. He said that he was going to kill him so that he could stay in jail. Andy came to the scene with Red and convinced Brooks to put down the knife because everything was going to be alright. Brooks was then released from Shawshank. Later, on the outside, he is walking
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