The Shawshank Redemption

Frank Darabont

Director of The Shawshank Redemption

What does this quote mean? "These walls are funny. First you hate 'em. Then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on 'em. That's institutionalised."

How easy it is to become institutionalised, and how the routine and order of Shawshank allows this to happen

What theme does this quote relate to? "We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men."

Hope, and how Andy gives it to the other prisoners

How does this quote relate to hope? "It was like some beautiful little bird flapped in to our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free."

The impact of hope, and how Andy helps the prisoners to achieve their own freedom in small ways

Who said this and what does it mean? "There's something inside they can't get to, that they can't touch. It's yours. Hope."

Andy's belief in hope, and how he manipulates it to keep himself sane

Who said this and what does it represent? "I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope."

Represents how Red's perspective on hope has changed, and the importance of hope in achieving freedom

What does this quote mean? "The funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook."

The irony of the justice system and the lack of effective rehabilitation in prisons

What does this quote mean? "Rehabilitated? Well now, let me see. You know, I don't have any idea what that means... Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word."

The lack of effective rehabilitation, because Red doesn't even know what rehabilitation means. Therefore, if prison is a place for rehabilitation, it is not effective, at least for Red.

"They send you here for life, and that's exactly what they take. The part that counts, anyway."

the effects of institutionalisation, and prison on person's soul

Who said this and what does it mean? "Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane."

Red's initial perspective on hope and how he uses it to keep himself sane

Who said this and what does it mean? "Forty years I been asking permission to piss. I can't squeeze a drop without say so."

Red. Institutionalisation and the long term impact of prison - contrast between prison and outside

Who said this and what does it mean? "No way I'm gonna make it on the outside. All I do anymore is think of ways to break my parole, so maybe they'd send me back. Only one thing stops me. A promise I made to Andy."

Red. Institutionalisation, but also the importance of hope and how Red and Andy's relationship represented hope

Who said this and what does it mean? "That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory."

Andy. His hope to be freed of his painful past, hope that keep him sane while he is captive in the prison

How does this quote relate to hope? "There's something buried under it I want you to have."

Andy giving Red a piece of 'hope' to hold on to, - giving him the opportunity to hope for himself

How does this quote relate to hope? "I had to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright."

Prison cannot take away Andy's inner freedom and eventually he gets actual freedom all because of his hope.

What is the symbolic meaning of the Medium shot of Brooks leaving the prison? - Prison bars casting a shadow over him

Shows that the effects of institutionalisation are long lasting - his time in prison will always cast a shadow over his life

Andy Dufresne

creates the identity of Randall Stevens

Capt Hadley

inherits $35,000 from his dead brother

Warden Norton

agrees to mail Andy's letters

Brooks Hatlen

almost kills Heywood

Andy Dufresne

"the only guilty man in Shawshank"

Tommy Williams

in prison for stealing TVs

Elmo Blatch

shared a cell with Tommy

Warden Norton

has a needlepoint sampler on the wall

Brooks Hatlen

hangs himself

Red

the "man who can get things"

Andy Dufresne

impresses Norton with Bible quotes

Heywood

wins the bet that Red loses

Capt Hadley

is said to have cried "like a little girl" when arrested

Red

played the harmonica when he was young

Andy Dufresne

loves rocks and chess

"Fat A**," the new inmate

cries and screams during first night in jail

Tommy Williams

only convict known to have a wife and child

Red

arranges for his friends to get release duty tarring the roof

Elmo Blatch

admits he killed Andy's wife and lover

Warden Norton

Andy calls him "obtuse"

Bogs

runs with a group called "The Sisters"

Brooks Hatlen

keeps a crow in his pocket

Heywood

is a fan of Hank Williams music

Bogs

is beaten up as payback for Andy

Capt Hadley

kills Tommy from above

Elmo Blatch

shared a cell with Tommy

Andy Dufresne

loves chess and rocks

Red

buys a compass

Warden Norton

"It's a conspiracy! That's what this is! And everyone's in on it. Even her!"

Red

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

Brooks

"It's hard work. I try to keep up, but my hands hurt most of the time."

Andy

"I had to come to prison to become a crook."

Warden Norton

"I'll pull you out of that one-bunk Hilton and cast you down with the Sodomites."

Brooks

"The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry."

true

The guards reschedule their baseball season to coincide with tax season.

false

Red gets paroled on the 2nd hearing the viewer sees.

Describe Red:

-narrator of the story

-planned and carried out his wife's murder by disabling her brakes, which accidentally killed a neighbor and child as well, which earned him a life sentence at Shawshank Prison.

-smuggles almos anything into the prison for a price

-once paroled he struggle, with his newly found freedom and job

Describe Andy Dufrense:

-former VP of a bank in Portland, Maine

-30 years old when he enters shawshank for the murder of his wife and another man and he is fifty-eight when he escapes

-rarley reveals his true inner character

-becomes prison librarian and financial wizard

-innocent

Describe Samuel Norton:

-prison warden

-institutes the "inside out program'

-claims to be a strong Christian

-Andy hides his illegal earnings

-eventually commits suicide after Andy's escape.

Describe Byron Hadley:

-prison gaurd

-tall with red hair, loud, and threatens prisoners to behave using violence

-Pessimistic, cynical, and paranoid, he feels the world is out to get him

-inhertis $35,000 from long lost brother and Andy offers to help him figure out a way for him to not pay taxes on that money

Describe The Sisters:

- gang of inmates who prey on weaker prisoners (inmates Bogs Diamond and Rooster MacBride)

-maintain their dominance in the hierarchy of prisoners by beating and gang-raping new inmates, including Andy (Andy always fights back even though he usually loses)

-Andy eventually wins protection from the Sisters after helping the guards and wardens with their finances.

Describe Tommy Williams:

-young imate

-criminal career

-served with Elwood Batch, the man who actually admitted to killing Andy's wife and lover

Describe Brooks Hatlen:

-given parole after 50 years in prison

- committed suicide because he was institutionalised.

Who said this? And about who?

"they trained him to like it inside the shithouse and then they threw him out."

Red said it about Brooks Halten

What year does Andy escape Shawshank Prison?

1965

What is the name on the fake identity that Andy has after he escapes?

Peter Stevens.

How long does the text say the pipe is that Andy crawls out of?

The length of five football fields.

When tarring the roof Andy asks Hadley

If he trusts his wife

Andy's patient persistence helps him______

Make the prison library exceptional.

According to Andy, the Pacific Ocean ____ ____ ____________

Has no memory

How does the beer on the roof make the men feel?

Like free men

What's the name of Norton's corrupt work program?

Inside Out

Norton won't let Andy pursue a re-trial because __________

He thinks Andy belongs in prison.

Why does Andy say he wants a poster of Rita Hayworth?

To remind him of freedom.

Warden Norton's most prominent feature is:

a. his eyes.

b. his voice.

c. his fussiness.

d. his hypocrisy.

His hypocrisy

Andy's favorite hobby is

Geology

What does Andy care about that Warden Norton promises to destroy?

Library.

How long did it take Andy to dig his hole and escape?

27 years

Institutionalized means

Gradually ​become less ​able to ​think and ​act ​independently, because of having ​lived for a ​long ​time under the ​rules of an ​institution: