The book character grew up without a father and then married a woman who came from a rich family. Knowing that his wife had a sizable life insurance policy in place, Red planned her murder by cutting the brakes on her vehicle. In a dark twist, Red's wife had picked up her neighbor who brought along an infant.
So, what The Shawshank Redemption doesn't reveal is that Red actually killed more people three than Andy two was accused of, though it turns out Andy didn't commit the crime. In the movie adaptation, Red becomes a less hardened individual over time. He theoretically lost all hope after serving multiple decades at Shawshank, especially after the suicide of his "institutionalized" friend Brooks Hatlen James Whitmore , but it's Andy who restores Red's humanity in The Shawshank Redemption.
It's that spirit of friendship - which runs through lots of Stephen King's non-horror stories - During a crucial moment, Andy returns from solitary confinement and explains that Mozart's music helped him pass the time, giving him hope. After struggling to befriend the wives of a bunch of mobsters who frequented her and husband Dmitri's deli, Red punched the wife of the mob boss in the chest, accidentally rupturing a breast implant.
Her and Dmitri were then forced to undertake some extremely unpleasant jobs as punishment, including corpse storage at the deli. She invited a young boy she met at the playground to come to her house to play with her. He soon became scared and tried to escape via a fire escape but slipped and fell. Flaca sold fake LSD, made out of paper and water, to her fellow high school students. But one boy who bought the 'drugs' was suicidal and while thinking he was high, jumped off the roof of their school.
Blanca was arrested for covering up manslaughter when the woman she was caring for hit someone with her car - and she helped cover it up. Leanne was brought up in an Amish community. She briefly left the community with a number of her peers to experience what normal life is like, and during this time she discovers drugs. After deciding to return to her community, a rucksack full of drugs is discovered in a field near her home, and is traced back to her. To avoid being banished, she cooperates with the police and shops in her peers.
She is placed under house-arrest for her involvement but after running away because her and her family are being shunned by the community, she breaks her probation. A member of OITNB's gang of ex-meth users, viewers assume Angie's in prison for drug possession, though it''s not actually ever confirmed.
Mei Chang is involved in organised crime, which takes place out of her family's traditional Chinese medicine store. The store also deals illegal animal parts on the side. After two police officers approached Lolly while she was selling coffee from a cart in the street, voices in her head tried to convince her that the officers meant her harm, which triggered her to start yelling in panic and reach for her bell-stick a stick with bells attached that she shook to drown out the voices.
The officers assumed she was reaching for a weapon and she was tackled and arrested, most likely for perceived aggravated assault on a police officer. One night when Yoga Jones was keeping watch on her marijuana field, she got drunk and accidentally shot and killed an 8-year-old boy whom she had mistaken for a deer. After joining a cult and marrying the leader in the '70s, Norma pushes him off a cliff after he mocks her for wasting her life on him.
Frieda says at one point that she cut off her husband's penis with a butcher's knife that "wasn't even sharp. She also mentions that she killed four people in one year, plus a cop, but she doesn't remember if she was caught for that or not.
After falling for a guy called Donte, she became involved with his criminal activities and helped him rob a check-cashing establishment. During her time working as a coffee barista, she poisoned a number of Jewish people and African Americans.
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He follows his instructions and both of them embrace, when they meet each other again. Stephen King Wiki Explore. Explore Wikis Community Central.
Red finds it awkward to be around women. He keeps asking his boss for small things including going to the toilet, because he isn't used to doing anything without say-so. Red keeps thinking about breaking his parole rules and going back to Shawshank where according to him, things make sense.
But he keeps thinking of Andy and his escape and so he is able to keep a positive attitude. He acknowledges that he will not be able to make it on the outside but he hopes he can. After a while, Red travels to Buxton, Maine and finds the particular hay-field Andy asked him to find. There under an oak tree he finds a volcanic glass rock. He finds a tin underneath. Enclosed in it is 5, in cash and a letter from Andy which he wrote after escaping. The letter states that Andy is doing fine in 'the town he mentioned', about to start his own resort and needs a man like Red.
The letter also states that 'Hope is a good thing and no good thing ever dies. He then carves his name in the house he lives in, right next to Brooks' name which he carved just before committing suicide. Red then travels to Zihuatanejo and reunites with Andy.
Red is a cynical and pessimistic man. He presumably has had a rough childhood. He explains that he was full of hatred and impulsive rage when he committed his crime. Red is remorseful and extremely guilty about his crime. He however has a calm, talkative disposition. Due to this Red is able to mingle with other prisoners and be a popular man in Shawshank. Red has accepted that he is a criminal and he has no hope for a better life. He sees no future and no positive.
Red also says that since he has been in jail most of his life, he won't be able to make it on the outside. It is Red who believes in the theory of institution life, in which according to him, prisoners get used to jail and slowly depend on it and soon the jail is their only world. Their life outside is destroyed. However upon meeting Andy, Red's personality begins to change.
Due to Andy's influence, Red starts playing the harmonica as he did in his youth. He also gets good at playing chess. Red is closer to Andy than anyone else and they are very close friends. Red says that Andy made the prisoners feel free, and he himself felt a sense of freedom he never had before in jail. In the novel, Red says that Andy was the only prisoner who could make him forget that he was in for life.
At first Red dismisses the concept of hope. According to Red, hope is useless and it can drive a man insane. However he sees the positive effect Andy has on other prisoners as time goes by including himself. As time passes Red grows less pessimistic.
However when Andy tells him of his dream to live in Zihuatanejo, Red is very pessimistic and tells him to stop dreaming. The night Andy escapes, Red is expecting the worst to happen. However Andy actually escapes. He realizes that Andy made the best possible use of his time and skills and he also realizes that hope is the spirit that made him do it.
After this, Red begins to hope too and develops an optimist attitude. Red says that 'Rehabilitated' is a made up word that does not mean anything. However with Andy, Red embraces his guilt and atones for it, and achieves redemption. Hence he fails. In the last hearing he tells what he really thinks of rehabilitation as a concept and admits his guilt, saying that he regrets it.
In the novel too, Red says that given the chance he will not do it again.
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