Media Analysis of the Shawshank Redemption
Media Analysis of The Shawshank Redemption
Craig Moody
ENC 1101 Composition I
July 20, 2011
James Slama
Andy Dufresne is an innocent man that is sent to prison for murder that he did not commit. There is a lot of innocent people in are prison system. For example, George A. Souliotes is convicted of setting a 1997 fire that killed a woman and her two children. George is currently serving life in prison because evidence showed that the substance on his shoes were the same as the substance that started the fire. Years later when a scientist reevaluated the substance on George’s shoe it was a chemical, but it was not the substance found at the scene (Los Angeles Times, September 21, 2010). In the movie Andy was convicted and sent to prison for the murder of his wife and her lover. The evidence that was reviewed at Andy’s Trial was circumstantial evidence. Andy is sentenced to two life sentences at Shawshank state penitentiary in Maine. Which is ran by the Warden Samuel Norton. Andy makes friends with Red an inmate that is doing a life sentence that gets rejected four times. Red is known as a guy that can get things. When Andy is sent to prison Red had already served two life stretches for his crime. In 1965 an inmate name Tommy Williams joins Andy and Red’s circle of friends in prison. While Andy is helping Tommy get his GED Tommy starts telling Andy about another inmate named Elmo Blatch at another prison had committed the exact same crime. Tommy could help prove that Andy is innocent. When the warden finds this out the warden has Tommy killed? Because the warden did not want to lose the prisons tax accountant which was Andy. If the warden did not have Tommy killed then Andy’s appeal would set Andy free because of new evidence. Andy then escapes from prison in 1966 by using a rock hammer tunneling through the wall and swimming through the sewer to his freedom. When Andy escapes from prison Red will have served 40 years of his life. After Red gets his
Craig Moody
ENC 1101 Composition I
July 20, 2011
James Slama
Andy Dufresne is an innocent man that is sent to prison for murder that he did not commit. There is a lot of innocent people in are prison system. For example, George A. Souliotes is convicted of setting a 1997 fire that killed a woman and her two children. George is currently serving life in prison because evidence showed that the substance on his shoes were the same as the substance that started the fire. Years later when a scientist reevaluated the substance on George’s shoe it was a chemical, but it was not the substance found at the scene (Los Angeles Times, September 21, 2010). In the movie Andy was convicted and sent to prison for the murder of his wife and her lover. The evidence that was reviewed at Andy’s Trial was circumstantial evidence. Andy is sentenced to two life sentences at Shawshank state penitentiary in Maine. Which is ran by the Warden Samuel Norton. Andy makes friends with Red an inmate that is doing a life sentence that gets rejected four times. Red is known as a guy that can get things. When Andy is sent to prison Red had already served two life stretches for his crime. In 1965 an inmate name Tommy Williams joins Andy and Red’s circle of friends in prison. While Andy is helping Tommy get his GED Tommy starts telling Andy about another inmate named Elmo Blatch at another prison had committed the exact same crime. Tommy could help prove that Andy is innocent. When the warden finds this out the warden has Tommy killed? Because the warden did not want to lose the prisons tax accountant which was Andy. If the warden did not have Tommy killed then Andy’s appeal would set Andy free because of new evidence. Andy then escapes from prison in 1966 by using a rock hammer tunneling through the wall and swimming through the sewer to his freedom. When Andy escapes from prison Red will have served 40 years of his life. After Red gets his
References: Los Angles Times. (September 21, 2010). Man sentenced to life in prison will get to argue his innocence. Retrieved from http://www.truthinjustice.org/imprisoned.htm Marvin, N. (Producer). (1994). The Shawshank Redemption