A security guard is falsely accused of taking the money and as for the radio another young boy is accused of taking the radio and is beaten and the security guard kills himself. After being underground for a period of time Fred decides to leave his underground home upon hearing a broadcast from a radio station about war calamities and his goes to the police station where he gives a strange confession that make the police man question his sanity. He brings them to the man hole and as he descends into the hole the police offer shots him. His reason for doing this he says is because “You’ve got to shot his kind. They’d wreck things.” He was left dead in the sewer just like the dead baby.
A Clockwork Orange is about one teenage boy named Alex whose goal in life was to mainly cause trouble. He was in a “gang”, so to say, with his three other friends and they would go around either create adultery by raping women in their homes or going to the local stores and wrecking up the place. When Alex was finally stabbed in the back by his so called “friends” he was sent to jail for murdering a woman. While spending time in jail he learned of a therapy technique that was looking for candidates for testing and would initially take time off the prison sentence for participating. Alex was initially chosen and soon learned that this “therapy” was more like torture and he was forced to watch countless hours of gruesome crimes, some that he committed himself.
Later in the film Andy takes a young prisoner named Tommy under his wing and finds that Tommy’s old inmate was the real murderer. Andy explains it all to the Warden and he finds it to be a very thrilling fictional story that Tommy cultivated to entertain Andy. Andy had a secretive plan up his sleeve to save him from all those years of misery and gets revenge on the Warden for being such a hypocrite and “obtuse”. As we watch this
While Andy is serving his sentence he comes across a man named Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, played by Morgan Freeman. Ellis is serving a life sentence and has become well customed to the traditions during his imprisonment. Red’s area of expertise inside the prison is the “import/export” business. Red’s first impression of Andy is that he is quite different from the average inmate, which of course works against Andy’s favour. As the movie continues Andy begins to befriend many of his fellow prisoners as well as the guard in order to reap the benefits only they could provide.
Racism is used when Mayella, a character in this story, accuses Tom Robinson, a local black man, of rape. Also, the Lynch Mob was an example of racism because they had gone to the jail where they were holding Tom to kill him. Courthouse segregation was another example. The blacks could only sit on the balcony during court hearings. When Tom was accused of rape, this was the most racist point in the book to me.
He is denied the request. Red then leaves the council and walks out to the prison yard when the siren goes off telling the inmates new prisoners are about to arrive. Some of the inmates make bets as to which of the new inmates will breakdown and cry first. It is now night and the other inmates are trying to make the newbie cry to win the bet. Heywood (William Sadler) makes the fat guy cry first and so he is the winner.
However, we all know that it is wrong. So why do we feel the need for revenge? I have three examples of revenge for you to read. In the film 'Sleepers', four young boys are sent, by court order, to the Wilkinson Home for Boys. Whilst staying there in the home for boys, four grown men, who were guards, sexually abused, harassed and humiliated the boys.
In the film, Red has a reputation for smuggling items from the outside world into Shawshank Prison. Each character individually asks for things in return for other goods. Red smuggles playing cards, whiskey, cigarettes and posters. In the film, Andy had asked Red to smuggle in a rock hammer and Red replied back with “No worries”. In the beginning of the film, we learn that Red was a menace to society, this is said in one of Red’s parole hearings sarcastically.
The Shawshank Redemption The film, The Shawshank Redemption directed by Frank Darabont, is based on the lives of several prisoners at Shawshank State Prison. All of the prisoners and the prison itself are somehow redeemed or changed in the duration of the film. They battled against institutionalisation and fear and some learn to hope for a better future. The main character in the film is Andy Dufresne. He is a young banker who is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to life at Shawshank State Prison.
Everything seems to be in Alex’s favor until his gang grows tired of his tyranny, and decides to trick him, landing him in prison after murdering a widowed cat lady. After serving a partial jail sentence, Alex is let out for what he comes to know as the “Ludovico Technique” which using nauseating drugs and overly violent films, conditions Alex against his violent nature. The novel, which was later adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick, became a controversial subject of debate for many years, as several copycat crimes followed its release. According to fiction writer Joseph Aisenberg; “a woman was raped by assailants performing “Singing In the Rain”; boy gangs marauded around England dressed as the droogs; Arthur Bremmer, who shot George Wallace, reported in his diary having watched the movie and been inspired to get Wallace all through it” (Aisenberg, 3). The existence of violence in the novel is paralleled by an immersion of fine art and culture, but is severely limited due to the narration style of the story.