Comparison Of Rita Hayworth And The Shawshank Redemption

Today, society is capable of culturally and socially identifying each one of us by referring to society’s norms and values. This could be an indication that some of us are indecisive because they are not conforming to society’s cultural and social acceptances. However, I feel that the some of us that do not conform to society’s norms and values are not indecisive. Instead, I think that some of us have acute senses of social awareness and cultural awareness that are practiced with caution. By using these acute senses, they would be able to justify their reasons for progressing through life at their own pace. Hence, this would provide the learning experiences to help them take back control of their own social life, and become capable of defining
The writing style feels authentic because Red’s vocabulary used to describe his experiences gave us insight to his awareness of the social relations between the problems, difficulties and hardships in the prison community and in Maine’s society, and awareness of the cultural relations that develop and produce open-minded and flexible mindsets towards thinking about life after prison. Red started off describing his function in the prison community as being reliable in fulfilling reasonable requests from other prison mates. When Andy began to communicate with Red to obtain a rock hammer and eventually several pin-up posters of actresses, this could be seen as the initiator of Red’s journey to finding his sociocultural identity because Red does learn from Andy that the items he would request symbolized his desire to return to society as a free spirited individual. As Red became attentive to Andy, he found that Andy went against the status quo because he would not conform to the culture of Shawshank State Prison and took control of his social life during his time in this environment. For instance, Andy demonstrated how he viewed himself in the world by applying the skills he acquired when he was in Maine’s society where it was a societal norm and value, to the prison community as a way to get a service in exchange based on his functional value. As an example, Andy used his knowledge of taxation to help one of the prison guards on how he could legally shelter money from taxation. Thus, his usefulness gained the trust of the prison guards and in exchange they had protected Andy from “The Sisters,” rather than accepting Shawshank State Prison culture by allowing “The Sisters” to have their way with him every time without a fight. After