„h Discuss the opening scene in which Andy is wrongly accused and show how the director sets the stage for the audience to pity Andy.

„h Show the effects that the prison has on Andy i.e. the way he acts, the friends he makes, and the enemies that he makes.

„h Discuss Andy's plan and how it begins to take action. Include the difficulties he faces establishing the trust needed to get away with his scheme as well as the set backs he encounters, both internally and externally.

„h Show how prison can permanently change a man and make him virtually useless to the free world.

„h Show how Andy executed his plan, and why it is so inge

The story begins to introduce Andy's hardships in prison. At first he is quiet and keeps to himself, he is attempting to get use to life on the inside without any confrontations. At this point in the book the audience is introduced to several of the inmates serving time at Shawshank Prison. One of these inmates was Red. He becomes the narrator of the story and also Andy's first, and best, friend at Shawshank. Red and Andy develop a friendship that enables Andy to gain the trust he needs to actualize his plan.

The plot continues to lead toward vindication for Andy when one day, while Andy and Red are outside in the courtyard, Andy reveals to Red that should he ever get parole that there is a field in which Andy has buried something that he wants for Red to have. "Get busy living, or get busy dying" are the last words Andy ever says to Red inside the walls of Shawshank prison. The next morning, Andy Dufresne is gone! He has disappeared overnight. He had tunneled through the wall of the prison and then crawled through the septic line that drained into a river over 200 yards away from the jail. As Red put it "he crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other end". The following day, a man no one had ever seen before walked into half a dozen banks in the area and walked away with 500,000 dollars of the wardens dirty cash. He then mailed a letter to a local newspaper that described in detail the events that took place inside the walls and the ways in which the money had been laundered. This additional plot twist really adds a sense of fulfillment to the story. The next morning the police came to take the warden and several guards into custody. The warden was never going to be taken and put into the jail that he had run for so many years. Before the officers could arrest him, he took his own life.

„h Discuss the meaning of the title and what it leads the audience to believe versus what it actually stands for.

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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)