Shawshank+Redemption

Class Notes 9/18 (recorded by Claudia Ruiz):


 * - Reasons why jail exist: **


 * ** Keep the public safe **
 * ** Punish the bad **
 * ** Rehabilitate **
 * ** Warn/ Deter **
 * One person’s action affects other people’s actions. **


 * Everybody stops when the music starts playing except one guy. **
 * Andy looks satisfied, content, feels like everybody is free. **
 * Andy thinks it’s funny that he is locking everybody out. **
 * When something tells you not to do something, your first insist is to actually does it. **


 * The danger of hope **

Class Notes 9/20 (recorded by Jenny Busch): Narration - Red narrates throughout the story - Keeps Andy a mystery, keeps the ending scene a secret throughout the whole movie. - Red had more experience in jail and could give a better perspective as to what prison life was really like, describes the workings of the prison (like the people and what part they have in the prison)

Hope - Red doesn’t want to hope because he doesn’t want to be let down, so it is easier not to hope. - Red kind of detaches himself from his want to get out of prison and is just angry when he goes in for the parole interview
 * o You see Red have hope during his parole interviews. He rehearses his speech and then the last interview he puts hope aside and just says what he wants. “__The truth sets him free.”__

Escape Scene - Andy’s escape scene when he is in the water could symbolize Baptism and washing him clean. - Things that didn’t make sense about the escape - Strange things he does after he escapes
 * o How did he get in the pipe
 * o How did he know where to go
 * o Where did he get the rock to break the pipe
 * o He goes to 12 banks the next day, that would take awhile to get those transactions to go through
 * § Somebody could have recognized him because he was a banker 20 years beforehand
 * o Goes to Buxton to bury the box for Red to find