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    Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank redemption is all about relationships‚ there are many that influence Andy (the main character). He changes in many different ways throughout the book‚ these relationships influence the different ways Andy changes. The relationship I would like to discuss is one between Red and Andy. The relationship between Red and Andy is more brotherly like because they look out for each other. During the opening of the book Red and Andy aren’t very close they talk but not very

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    TX GOV M. Champion The quote that jumped out at me was number 13. This short sentence really does summarize today’s political mishaps of the delegates in office. Let me start by saying that anywhere you are in Texas or the country‚ for that matter‚ everyone has opinions about politics and what the government should or should not be doing. Do these individuals have any intelligence on the subject? Probably not as much as they think they do. But being a democracy‚ intelligence doesn’t matter

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    Darabont’s use of symbolism in the film The Shawshank Redemption. Explain some of the significant symbols in the film and what they are used to convey.” Frank Darabont’s film ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ is a prison drama that tells the story of Andy Dufresne‚ a banker who is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover‚ however; only Andy knows he did not commit the crimes. He spends twenty years in Shawshank Prison‚ during this time he befriends a fellow

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    In the film “Shawshank Redemption” directed by Frank Darabont it shows that good and evil personalities are shown as opposite to the stereotypes society holds. One expects characters like the warden and the guards to be good people and the prisons to be the bad people yet they are proved different after watching the film. The use of different cinematic techniques such as lighting‚ camera angles‚ music and different shots are used in the film to display the powerful difference between good and evil

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    Put your trust in the Lord. Your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank." These words‚ spoken by Mr Norton‚ the prison warden‚ greet the men as they arrive at Shawshank prison. An indication of what they should expect of the place. "Shawshank Redemption" is a film about a banker named Andy who is sentenced to prison for two life sentences for a crime that he did not commit. There are many injustices shown throughout the film. The main injustice shown is that which occurs inside the prison‚ and not

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    The prison of Shawshank is a fictional Marine state prison‚ where the story takes place. The prison is also mentioned in several other Stephen King novels. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption is a novella‚ which is originally from his collection‚ Different Seasons. Another book overshadowed by its film adaption is Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption‚ the fiction story is written in the present in the year 1976‚ where Red‚ the main character‚ is prisoned for murdering his wife. The

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    In The Truman Show‚ the director Peter Weir uses various film techniques to have effect on the audience and make them feel different emotions. The film techniques that he uses are camera angles‚ music and sound and lighting. The major technique that is used in this film is camera angles. Throughout the film there are various camera angles‚ the main shots that Weir uses are angled‚ tilted shots to show that there are hidden cameras filming Truman. When Truman is driving in his car the camera is

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    Rehabilitation vs institutionalisation The film The Shawshank Redemption addresses the process and consequences of institutionalization. Released in 1994 and directed by Frank Darabont‚ it is based on a novella by Stephen King titled Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption. Both works trace the lives of long-term prisoners in Shawshank Prison. The fictional penitentiary‚ located in Maine‚ is run by the corrupt Warden Norton and guard captain Byron Hadley‚ the former involved in money

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    for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing‚ so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.”(Rachel Kushner). This relates to Red in Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption as through his narration of the story‚ one learns more about his character. At the beginning of the novel‚ it appears as though the story is one that centers around Andy Dufresne. However‚ as the novella continues‚ it is evident that the contents of the book are focused on Red

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    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

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