Essay On The Shawshank Redemption

Darabont and Mccarthy both pick the settings of the texts to show the protagonist’s to survive.Both protagonists are struggling to survive in a hostile environment. Both are in constant fear for their lives due to their extreme environments. The setting for the road is in a post-apocalyptic world. No locations are used except the road that leads from the forest and once they have entered to the road Mccarthy uses techniques of withholding information to create mystery. In Shawshank Redemption, the setting is shown very visually with it first being shown with the use of camera angles particularly a birdseye view showing the whole prison. Both texts show both protagonists have had to adapt to being in these situations, neither of them were born into this environment but have had to constantly adapt to their environment. Cormac shows this by the introduction of the fathers old house. While Darabont shows Andy doing this as he is constantly making himself
Andy was willing to risk the wrath of the warden for the hope that one day he’d find a way to escape that as his salvation hope. The novel The Road used symbolism as the child who showed his humanity despite being born into the world as hostile as was. He often showed the good that can still be done and he symbolised the future for the world. This was further shown when the father died and he was adopted or joined the family as there were 2 other kids who were presumably in the same position as him. This symbolism was shown through the dialogue between him and his father and especially the description of their interactions “He sat there a long time weeping and then he got up and walked out through the woods to the road. When he came back, he knelt beside his father and held his cold hand and said his name over and over