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__Essay __ Steve  In the movie __Shawshank Redemption__ by Steven King, the characters Andy and Red are not that similar. Red is institutionalized, he thinks of jail as his home because he has been there so long. On the other hand, Andy gets accused of murdering his wife and her lover and gets sent to jail for two life sentence’s. Andy wants to get out, he has hope for outside of jail in the real world, and Andy knows he is innocent and should not be in jail. First, Red keeps going to the parole board about getting out of jail, but he knows that they will not let him out. Red wants to be free but wants to stay there with his friends; to Red, jail is home and he does not want to leave. Once Red left jail he started his life, he asked to go take a piss because for 40 years of his life he had to ask for permission to. Red kept Andy’s promise and looks for the rock and underneath was a container with a not to him. Second, Andy has to go to jail for being convicted with murder, he was set up and ends up in jail. Andy becomes friends with Red and asks for a rock hammer, that rock hammer becomes Andy’s ticket to get out of jail. But before Andy breaks out; he gets a new library started after Brook’s had left and committed suicide, Red and Andy decided to name the library after Brook’s. Andy and his friend’s are on the roof covering it in tar and over hear one of the guards talking about money problems; he offers advice and help him with his taxes for three beers for his friends. Andy locks one of the guards in the bathroom and then locks himself in the room and turns the record player on with Mozart; instead of turning it off he turns it up louder, as Andy’s punishment he has to stay in the hole for two full months. Third, Red goes to the parole board for the last time and tells them how he really feels; they finally approve of it and release him into the real world. Red misses the jail and was thinking of a way to get back in but instead he buys a compass instead of a gun at the pawn shop. Red packs his stuff up and carves “so was Red” next to “Brook’s was here”. Red goes down to the Pacific in search of Andy as his promise was. Therefore, Red and Andy are similar in some ways but mainly different from each other. Red gets all these things for the other convicts and helps them out by getting them smokes or whatever they need. Andy just has hope of freedom from jail, he carves rocks and does taxes for the guards to waste time.