Shawshank Redemption Essays

The movie “Shawshank Redemption”, written and directed by Frank Darabont is about Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) who in 1947 is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover. However, only Andy knows that he didn’t commit the crimes. Sent to Shawshank …

Two life sentences, an innocent Andy Dufresne accused of killing his wife and her lover! The prison doors slam, he’s there for one week, two weeks, three weeks, then four, and eventually a year passes. It’s not looking too good for Andy, it looks as if he could be here …

Whenever the moon and stars are set whenever the winds are high all night long One viewer described their tape of The Shawshank Redemption as ‘like a friend in the sitting-room, who talked to me and picked me up when I was down’. And from such intimate encounters came the …