ENSAYO EN INGLÉS "THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION"

The Shawshank Redemption. By Fernanda Moreno C.

In 1947, Andy Dufresne is a banker who was convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, golf pro. He was sentenced to two life sentences, and sent to the Shawshank Prison in Maine. Andy always claimed his innocence.

About a month later, Andy approached Red because Red could smuggle things from outside for a fee. He asked if Red could find him a rock hammer, an instrument he claimed he need for his hobby in rock collecting. Andy also wanted to get a poster of Rita Hayworth. Her film's Gilda was shown to the inmates in prison quite a few times already & they seemed to enjoy watching it over & over again.

Over the first two years of doing time, Andy worked in the prison laundry. He was regularly beaten up, and raped by a group of sadistic thugs known as the "Sisters".

Andy offered his service to help Hadley for tax shelter in exchange for some cold beers for other fellows.

Andy was sent to work with Brooks Hatlen who works in the library.

Beside that, Andy began to write letters once a week for authorities outside Shawshank, asking for funds to improve the library. He continued sending letters week after week without any reply. Yet he kept on writing.

Andy laundered money for the warden by setting up many accounts in different banks using a fake identity : " Randall Stephens ".

After 2 years of writing letters, Andy received money for the library. Instead of following their request not to bother them anymore, Andy doubled his campaign of letter writing. He received more funds & materials for the library.

In 1965, a young prisoner named Tommy came to Shawshank . One day he happened to mention that some years ago, he had a cellmate who boasted about working at a golf club & that he had killed a club member who was a golf pro and his lover during a robbery at the man's house. With this new information, Andy, full of hope, brought the matter to the warden's attention, expecting he could help him get another trial with Tommy as a witness. The reaction from Norton was the contrary of what Andy had hoped for. Fearing the end of the lucrative ill-gotten money that Andy was looking after for him, Norton had Tommy shot dead by Hadley and Andy sent to solitary confinement for 2 months.

Afterwards, he told Red that if one day he would be paroled, he should go to a field in Buxton, Maine & look for a metal box buried nearby an oak tree which Andy intended to leave for Red. Andy refused to reveal more what's inside the box when Red asked him.

Red and friends started to worry that Andy might contemplate suicide. The following morning, Andy was not accounted for as usual from his cell. At the same time, Norton became alarmed when he found out Andy's shoes were

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