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Have you ever been thinking about, how important your freedom is and whether you appreciate it enough? Often, we have our heads so far stuck up in our asses to acknowledge, how fortunate we really are.
We watch as the world goes by, wanting what everyone else has, never feeling like our lives have enough and are sufficient.
Until one day our walls come crumbling down and everything falls on our heads, which then puts a perspective on, how incredibly lucky we were.
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Page 35 ‘’Word got around that Shawshank was housing its very own pet financial wizard. In the late spring and the summer of 1950, Andy set up two trust funds for guards […]
Andy became even more important-but if I tried to tell you the specifics of just how, I'd be guessing. There are some things I know about and others I can only guess at.
I know that there were some prisoners who received all sorts of special considerations-radios in their cells, extraordinary visiting privileges.’’ The story indicates that Andy got much important factor for the guards in the prison.
Page 77, ‘’Andy kept up on the tax laws and the changes in the stock markets and so his usefulness didn't end [….] He was a good nigger. ‘’
Page 17, ’’Because of his small size and fair good looks ‘’
Page 1, ‘’I came to Shawshank when I was just twenty, and I am one of the few people in
our happy little family willing to own up to what he did. I committed murder [….] Bystanders said it must have been doing fifty or better when it hit the base of the Civil War statue and burst into flames. ‘’
Page 38, ‘’One day in 1958 I looked at myself in a small shaving mirror I kept in my cell and saw a forty-year-old man looking back at me. A kid had come in back in 1938, [….]
On that day I could see an old man inside, waiting his time to come out. It scared me. Nobody wants to grow old in stir.’’, which explains that he were young when he first entered prison, and now are looking at himself in the mirror as an old man.
The harsh and unforgiving environment in Shawshank takes up a lot of space in the story and contributes a lot to make it possible for the reader to feel the atmosphere and allows the reader to almost step into the story and be there themself.
But it is not just the thick prison walls or the small exercise yard, which contributes to a squeezed and tense atmosphere, it’s also some of the other inmates and the prison guards, who is supposed to watch them, and prevent inmates from beating and harrasing each other's, but they don’t seem to care, ‘’Andy punched back and bloodied the lip of a big, hulking sister named Bogs Diamond [….] the guards know about it and just let it be. ‘’, it gives a feeling of being insecure when reading the story, everything can happen since no one is going to protect the inmates, which contributes to a tense in the atmosphere.
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