THE COMPARATIVE QUOTES!!!

he’d come home with the back of his coat covered in spit

bill was bullied in his childhood

well there’s girls out there that get in trouble, that much you do know

even biulls wife is capable of judging him

no boy to carry on the family name

mother superior shaming bill, and referencing not knowing who his father was

Out working with a farmer you should be instead of getting your head filled with high notions.

Mena to Sive

It isn't everyday of the week £200 will come your way.

Thomasheen

'Money is the best friend a man ever had.'

Mike to Mena

You will not command the lives and happiness of two people who love each other.'

Liam Scuab

We will mind whatever money we make.

Mena

Four cows on the top of the mountain and a few acres of bog.

Mena’s marriage

Long enough we were scraping

Mena struggle

The priest we must go for the priest

Mike at the end

Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Andy tells Red that hope is a good thing

I have no enemies here

Andy describes his relationship with the other inmates

I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel

Red is released from Shawshank

Hope is a dangerous thing

Red tells Andy what he thinks about hope

"I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank"

The Warden speaks with the new inmates

"Salvation lies within"

Warden Norton hands Andy the Bible unknowing that the rock hammer was hidden inside

I can't believe how fast things move on the outside

Brooks is released from Shawshank

Only guilty man in Shawshank

Red fully admits to the murder he committed as a young man and his guilt has stayed with him all these years.

That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you

Andy explains to Red why he played the opera music

"Get busy living, or get busy dying"-Andy

Andy is taking his life back into his hands

These walls are funny. First you hate 'em. Then you get used to 'em.

Red describes how easy it is to become institutionalised

"We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men."

Red feels hope after Andy gets the inmates beers

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

Andy describes the irony of the justice system and the lack of effective rehabilitation in prisons

Forty years I been asking permission to piss. I can't squeeze a drop without say so

The impact of institutionalisation on Red

The convent was a powerful- looking place…

Quote that describes of the convent's imposing facade in the opening

Furlong had come fom nothing. Less than nothing, some might say.

Furlong's childhood/ background

His mother, at the age of sixteen, had fallen pregnant

Quote describing Furlong's mother and society's very strict rules for sexual mores

When his mother's trouble had became known…her people made it clear that they'd have no more to do with her.

illegitimate

Adjective to describe Bill Furlong Bill was branded

attention was fixed on providing for his girls

Quote that displays one of Bill's core values/ his love for his daughters Bill's

The times were raw.

Simple quote that illustrates a troubled, harsh society, rife with suffering

The dole queues were getting longer.

Quotes describing the increasing levels of poverty/ recession

Girls of low character

Quote describing the the girls in the Magdalene laundry

where common, unmarried girls went in to be hidden way after they had given birth

Quote indicating that the community knew what was going on behind the convent walls

Just take me as far as the river. That's all you need do.

Quote - What a young, suffering women says to Furlong in the convent

If you want to get on in life, there's things you have to ignore.

Quote portraying the neglect and willing ignorance of the community/ people around Furlong

the ordinary part of him wished he'd never come near the place.

Quote describing Furlong's inner conflict of wanting to help and maintaining the life he has

It's no easy task to find a place for everyone.

Quote - the Mother Superior's veiled threats