Analysis of Shawsank Redemption

A detailed Summary of Analysis of Shawsank Redemption

The movie, Shawshank Redemption, is about a story of two men, Andy Dufrane and Red Abbott, who spent most of their lives in a prison together going through the ups and downs of prison life. Andy, who was once a vice-president at a bank, was in prison for murdering his wife and her lover, when he caught them in bed together; he was giving life in prison. Whereas Red, also a convicted murderer, got life but with a chance of parole. The two grew close to each other because they were both very educated men and had the same interests. After five years of doing the laundry, the warden thought it would in the prisons best interest to use such an educated man as Andy in the library. So they transferred Andy from the laundry to the library to assist the librarian, Brook Hadlen. After being Brook's assistant for a while Brook's got paroled and Andy took over the library job as well as did taxes for all the guards and the warden. There was not much to the library so Andy asked the warden if it would be all right if the started sending a letter and week to the Senate to get funds, and the warden agreed. He sent a letter a week until, finally, six years later he got a response. He went down to the warden's office and he saw stacks of o

Andy needed something to use as a vent and music did just that. This form of communication is called displacement, the ability to vent aggression towards something other than what you're directly angry towards. This is how Andy showed his displacement by playing the music and felt like a regular human being again. He has been in prison for over six years at that point and was starting to feel the stages of becoming an "institutional man." An "institutional man" is someone who has been in the prison system for a while and it becomes all they know. An "institutional man", Red says, would not be able to make it on the outside because it is to fast moving in the real world and not done by a schedule like prison life.

Other types of communications where gestures by Andy leaning back in the chair, completely relaxed, with his legs on the desk and arms behind his head. It showed that he was at ease with the situation and himself. Feeling statements are the thoughts the inmates had when everyone turned in complete bewilderment and just stared toward the speaker. A feeling statement is an expression of a person's emotions that come from an action done by the sender. This also showed when Andy turned on the loudspeaker for all to hear.

While Andy was sitting in the warden's office he was using a type of communication called defensive listening which means when a receiver of a message perceives a speaker's comments as an attack toward them. For example, as the warden was threatening Andy to turn the record off Andy disregarded him and instead turned the volume up while giving the warden a little grin. I'm sure Andy and the warden both were having mixed-emotions about the situations. Mixed-Emotions is the ability to feel different emotions at the same time. Disregarding what the warden said made a big impression on the warden because it showed that Andy was not going to be put down by him and that no one else had to either. It also could be said that the warden and Andy use complementary communication, communication where one person has a powerful position while another has a subservient position. Andy is the prisoner where he must take orders whereas the warden is the one giving the orders.

ld books, magazines, and records sent from libraries that did not use them anymore and also a check in the amount of two hundred dollars to go toward the building of a new library.

Although, Andy's action in playing the music was welcomed by some, others thought that he was trying to teach the warden and guard's a lesson. The warden showed many different types of disciplinary communication when he tried to get Andy to turn off the music. One of those types was verbal abuse, a response that is supposed to cause pain mentally to another. The warden did this by screaming and knocking on the door yelling, "Open this door!" and also the warden impatiently yelled, "Turn that off, turn that OFF!" It showe

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