The Shawshank Redemption: Crime Doesn T Pay
The Shawshank Redemption: Crime Doesn’t Pay
The story Shawshank Redemption is in many ways a classic example of the saying “crime doesn’t pay”. The author Stephen King uses the characters Andy, Red, Warden Norton, Hadley and Boggs to show how a life of crime and treating others badly will eventually catch up with a person, while living an honest life and treating others with respect and kindness, no matter how difficult, will benefit a person in the end.
Andy Dufresne is a banker from Maine who is accused of murdering his wife and her lover after finding out about their affair and that she is planning on leaving him for the golf pro. Andy gets drunk and plans to go confront the two of them, but changes his mind and throws the gun in …show more content…
Andy pretty much keeps to himself and doesn’t bother anyone, so it doesn’t seem fair that he is being harassed by other inmates. Boggs is the leader of the gang that bullies Andy, and he is the person that instigates the conflicts. It seems as if Boggs and the bull queers are going to torment Andy throughout the entire movie, and the villains are going to win after all. This goes on for two years, until Andy is able to get on the good side of Hadley, the foreman of the prison guards by helping him hide an inheritance of $35,000 from the IRS. Andy becomes a financial advisor to Hadley and the other guards at Shawshank and earns their respect. The rapes and beatings continue until one day Boggs and the bull queers attack Andy, and because he fights back, they nearly beat him to death. Seeking revenge for Andy, who has helped them tremendously, Hadley and the other guards beat Boggs in his cell until he is paralyzed and has to live out the rest of his days in a minimum security prison in a wheelchair. Boggs continuously tormented Andy by abusing him physically and sexually. He got away with it for two years, but eventually his bad deeds got the best of
The story Shawshank Redemption is in many ways a classic example of the saying “crime doesn’t pay”. The author Stephen King uses the characters Andy, Red, Warden Norton, Hadley and Boggs to show how a life of crime and treating others badly will eventually catch up with a person, while living an honest life and treating others with respect and kindness, no matter how difficult, will benefit a person in the end.
Andy Dufresne is a banker from Maine who is accused of murdering his wife and her lover after finding out about their affair and that she is planning on leaving him for the golf pro. Andy gets drunk and plans to go confront the two of them, but changes his mind and throws the gun in …show more content…
Andy pretty much keeps to himself and doesn’t bother anyone, so it doesn’t seem fair that he is being harassed by other inmates. Boggs is the leader of the gang that bullies Andy, and he is the person that instigates the conflicts. It seems as if Boggs and the bull queers are going to torment Andy throughout the entire movie, and the villains are going to win after all. This goes on for two years, until Andy is able to get on the good side of Hadley, the foreman of the prison guards by helping him hide an inheritance of $35,000 from the IRS. Andy becomes a financial advisor to Hadley and the other guards at Shawshank and earns their respect. The rapes and beatings continue until one day Boggs and the bull queers attack Andy, and because he fights back, they nearly beat him to death. Seeking revenge for Andy, who has helped them tremendously, Hadley and the other guards beat Boggs in his cell until he is paralyzed and has to live out the rest of his days in a minimum security prison in a wheelchair. Boggs continuously tormented Andy by abusing him physically and sexually. He got away with it for two years, but eventually his bad deeds got the best of