Red is the mediator or polemicist, meaning that he’s a smooth talker and debater. In Shawshank he’s know as the man that can get anything for you from the outside … for a price of course. He’s a crook with a good heart and somewhat good intentions, but he confides to the prison walls to blur the lines of reality outside in the real world. Inside the prison he has value to his name and his insecurities are concealed by the opaque violence, and hard stance of Shawshank’s environment. Hope motivates him, but he does anything in his will to cloak that fact.
He has a low morality and immaturity. Clyde is low in moral because he commits crime in the name of poverty instead of taking effort in a proper way such as legally working in a company. He has self-righteousness for being a robber as he sees himself as a justifiable hero. His ideology of justice is based only on a children book story, Robin Hood (Cawelti and Free 102). His judgment is based on Robin Hood’s judgment as well, who is portrayed to be a hero in the storybook for stealing money from the avaricious people only.
The conch is used throughout the book to represent order and authority. The boys on the island know to listen to whoever is holding the conch and respect it. Ralph is fair when it comes to making decisions; he does not choose himself and uses a voting system like democratic leaders. Jacks way of leading in lord of the flies is very different to Ralphs. Jack is more of a dictator, a violent, forcing leader, giving no one else freedom of speech.
He, like Ongka, was not a formal leader but used fear and persuasion to become the “big man” of the crack houses. Ray earned “juice” when he raped a man which caused the people around him to fear and respect him. His way of persuasion is offering protection to all his workers. Ray could not
Andy Dufresne was a banker, which represented ‘Middle class America’, everything that most prisoners would hate. Red had the intelligence to see through Andy’s frosty demeanour and see that Andy was a ‘glass half full’ person. I think this is a good lesson for my age group to learn that we shouldn’t judge others by the way they look and the way they act. Another feature of the movie I enjoyed was the film techniques. At the end of the film there is a scene where Andy breaks out of Shawshank and the director wants us to feel his sense of freedom.
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.
Norton is one of the major characters that affect the story in the film but he isn’t even a big character in the written story that in place of one warden there are three, Warden George Dunahy, Greg Stammas, and Samuel Norton. The short story has Greg Stammas is the one who forced Andy to start an accountant business and run his illegal business of stealing all the money from the prison into his bank account. even though, in the film Warden Samuel Norton is the person behind those crimes, which later gives Andy the reason to look for revenge on him. same thing with the cold blood guard Byron Hadley. in the short story he doesn’t do anything significant, and he has a heart attack and retires in the middle of the story, but in the film he is an
The Shawshank Redemption Often regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ is the story of one man’s persecution and his undying hope of freedom, which ultimately overpowers him into redemption. After being wrongly convicted of murdering his wife and his wife’s lover, banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) he is sentenced to serve two consecutive life-sentences in Shawshank State Penitentiary. In there, he meets fellow inmate Ellis “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman),and the pair form a close friendship. Andy is also great interest to the prison Warden, who uses Andy’s banking skills for money laundering operations. When Andy finds a way to prove his innocence, the Warden soon suppresses the opportunity as he realizes the true worth of Andy and his activities.
It is the practice of obtaining power, influence, or other personal gains through illegitimate means, often at other people’s expense. The more widespread and acceptable corrupt methods are in a given society, the more corrupt that society is said to be. Corruption has resulted to crises in many parts of the world, and those on top have used it to take advantage of others (Corruption Watch, 2013). Corruption exists in any institution where legitimate means of getting ahead are circumvented by allowing individuals to enhance their personal power with money or favors. As a result, it becomes harder or impossible for others to operate above board.
Police Corruption is defined as the abuse of police authority for personal or organizational gain. This comes in many shapes and sizes, from the major drug trafficking and money laundering to looking the other way on minor everyday violations of the law. Ever since the concept of rules and regulation came about there have been certain people who were chosen to enforce those regulations. Some of those law enforcement personnel have been persuaded to look the other way on certain violations committed by their friends or family. Payments for these inconsistencies could come in the way of personal favors, bribes, or gratuities.