In Stephen King’s Novella “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption” King talks about two men who were both convicted of murder, Andy and Red. Andy maintained his innocence while Red knew he was guilty. Although these two men seem to be different, they have many similarities. Red admitted his guilt by staying “I fixed the brakes of the Chevrolet Cope her father had given us as a wedding present.” He then talks about how the whole plan went the way he wanted to except he didn’t know his wife was going to stop and pick up the neighbor and her young child. Andy on the other hand maintained his innocence no matter how much evidence placed him at the crime scene. Andy states how he bought a gun to kill himself after he found out his wife was cheating with her gulf instructor, Gulf Pro Glenn Quentin.
Andy had difficulties adapting to prison life. He got attacked and raped by a gang of men known as “The Sisters” in the laundry room while the guards stood by pretending they didn’t hear anything. Yet Andy never once lost his confidence or complained about anything. Red was well adapted to prison life and felt as if he belonged incarcerated. Red thinks that he will not be able to survive on the outside because he will be just another convicted felon, while on the inside he is known as “the guy who can get you anything.”
Andy had gotten a rock hammer and multiple posters from Red over the years which he used to break free. He slowly broke a hole in the prison wall in his cell, which he covered with one of the many posters he had gotten from Red. He had crawled through the wall and out through a sewer line that he knew would be down due to construction. Andy wasn’t discovered missing until morning head count the next day, he had left the guards confused on how he had escaped. That was until the warden ripped down his poster and found the hole in the wall. Red didn’t want to leave prison, so when he was paroled in 1974...