What I
could do is give an entirely specific down to each point type of summary of the
movie/film The Shawshank Redemption,
but, believe it or not, I won’t do that. But instead I will fully and properly
do my best to fully and properly answer the blog prompt without going on about
what I am and am not going to just to use random words to fill up the page to
get this blog done and over with which is exactly what I have just done. But
I’m not done with the blog yet so I must go on.
So to
start off with, is the Shawshank
Redemption a redemption tale, and if so, does it live up to its name? Well I
guess so and I know that that’s not very convincing, but to be honest I don’t
have much of an idea of what redemption means. So as for our next question,
which man is redeemed? Well for me it’s hard to tell because, once again, I
have almost no idea of what redemption means so I guess I could just answer
this question quickly and get it done and over with, but I won’t do that and in
fact I will instead put some thought into it. So, now that I have put some
thought into it, I could say that Andy is the one that has been redeemed and be
done with it and let that be the end of answering this question, and I could
say this because he’s technically the main character. But again, to be honest I’d
rather put some deep thought into this and along with that, I could say that
Red is the one who’s been redeemed and I could say this for a couple reasons. These
reasons start off not with the fact that he was the second main character, but
with the fact that he was in prison longer and with that being said; I guess
one could say that that place had become his home. I mean that because when
someone spends so much time of their life in a place it basically becomes all
that that person knows and it’s hard to imagine a place outside of it and those
images turn into faint memories. So anyways, when Red did eventually get out
things were different and he had three main choices; to live his new life the
best he could, end his life in all, or do something to get himself sent back to
jail. Fortunately, he took the first choice and made a life for himself so I guess
one could easily say that he was the one redeemed. But then again, I could be
completely wrong. So in all, who truly was redeemed? Was it our main character
who had escaped prison after being sentenced for something that he hadn’t even
done and started a completely new life under a fake name, or Red; the man who
served out his long grueling prison sentence and struggled but maintained/managed
to create a new life for himself? Well that’s that. The end.
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