Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

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Andy and Reds Relationship

• Continues to grow
• Become friends
• Andys Gift to Red
• Carved and polished rocks
• Red thinks that they are beautiful
• He recognizes how much time and care it took to
  make the gift
• Red is genuinely moved
• Odd tone considering the setting of the novella

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Rita Hayworth

• Andy asks Red to get him a poster of the movie
  star

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Byron Hadley

• Head guard
• Very mean and brutal
• Inherits 35,000 from his brother
• Upset that the government will take taxes out of
  his inheritance

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Andys Plan

• Asks Hadley if he trusts his wife
• Hadley thinks Andy is mocking him and is ready to
  push Andy off of the roof
• Andy informs Hadley about tax loopholes
• As a form of payment, Andy asks for a few beers
  for each of his co-workers

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Administrative Corruption

• Prison administration has Andy doing financial
  advisement for the guards and wardens.
• Andy is helping the guards do illegal things, but
  in his mind, his actions are justified.

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Andys Compensation

• Protected from the other prisoners
• Gets a cell to himself
• Is able to work in the prison library
• Is able to expand the prison library