What can happen to a man, if he in his prime gets two life sentences for the murder of his wife and falls into the darkest prison of America? It was a story about Andy Dufresne. He may lose the meaning of life and sink to the level of criminal personalities around him. Or maybe he can just dream. Dream that he can prove his innocence, and go beyond the barbed wire.
In prison, everyone lepers, but someone is trying to be a man among beasts and such people are few. Story of Brooks Hatlen, who spent half a century in prison, where he had the respect and love, and at liberty nobody loved him, he was an old man and nobody needs him. He died suddenly, although he lived an interesting and instructive life. He was in charge of the prison library.
The story narrated by a third person, Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding. He spent thirty years of his life sentence and accustomed to life in prison. He met Andy there. As time went on and they became friends. Andy changed the prison and laundered money for the director, from which we conclude that it ennobles life imprisonment a number of privileges.
But he still dreamed about freedom and that dream has moved him throughout the term of imprisonment, every person wants to get out of the cell.
Freedom, love, life outside the walls. All this seems like a pipe dream, but this dream - the only incentive to life. Andy Dufresne escaped from these shackles of proving that we should fight for freedom.
Andy Dufresne has done the impossible. He lived in his dream, and he realized it. Red also changed his outlook on life. He would not have survived in captivity, but the prison also became his home. It will be really hard, to start life again.
Maxim