3. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is a novella by Stephen King. The
story is about Andy Dufresne, a banker, is tried and convicted for the double
murder of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence. He is sent
to Shawshank State Penitentiary to serve a double life sentence. There, he
meets Red, a prisoner who smuggles items from the outside world. Andy, who
had been an amateur geologist before being imprisoned, asks Red to get him a
rock hammer for shaping rocks he collects from the exercise yard into small
sculptures. He later requests a large poster of Rita Hayworth, that he hangs on
the wall above his bed. Over the ensuing years, Andy regularly requests
updated posters from Red, of the latest pin-ups, including Marilyn Monroe
and Raquel Welch. When asked, Andy tells Red that he likes to imagine he can
step through the pictures and be with the actresses.
4. For his first 3 years in Shawshank, Andy is repeatedly the target of a gang of
prison rapists called "The Sisters. When Andy work in the roof senior guard
named Byron Hadley complaining about the amount of tax he will have to pay
on a sum of money bequeathed to him, after this moment Andy has
protection from the guards - also called screws - from all threats, including
that of the Sisters. When the newest corrupt warden of Shawshank, Samuel
Norton, realizes that a man of Andy's skills is useful, his privacy is restored.
Norton starts a program called "Inside-Out," where convicts do work outside
the prison for slave wages. Normal companies outside cannot compete with
the cost of Inside-Out workers, so they offer Norton bribes not to bid for
contracts. Andy helps Norton launder the money, among several other illegal
enterprises orchestrated by Norton.
5. In February of 1963, Andy hears from another prisoner, Tommy Williams, that
his former cellmate named Elwood Blatch had bragged about killing a rich
golfer and his lover - the wife of a "hotshot banker" who was convicted of the
murders. On the morning of March 12th, 1975, after he has been incarcerated
for 28 years, Andy disappears from his locked cell. The current poster pasted to
his wall (Linda Ronstadt) covers a man-sized hole - Andy had used his rock
hammer not just to shape rocks, but also to slowly chip away at the wall. Once
through the wall, he broke into a sewage pipe, crawled through it, emerged into
a stream 500 yards beyond the prison's outer perimeter, and vanished. In March
of 1977, Red is paroled. After that he searching for suitable hay fields from
Andy's "directions“ and find the letter and cash. The story ends with Red
violating his parole to follow Andy to Mexico.
6. 1. Andi Dufresne
2. Ellis Boyd or Red
3. Samuel Norton (warden)
4. Byron Hadley (senior guard)
5. Tommy Williams
6. Brooks Hatlen
7. Elwood Blatch
8. Bogs Diamond
9. Peter Steven (fiction name)
CHARACTER
7. The point of view of this story is the third person as an observer.
POINT OF VIEW
8. This novel tells the story of the struggle of an Andy Dufresne from being
accused, tortured in prison, and how he got out of prison. The novels have an
implicit meaning about us as humans must complete our difficult task. The
never give up of Andy Dufresne while running away from prison also has a
implicit meaning for us who actually won no word to give up before getting.
MORAL VALUE
