The movie Shawshank Redemption is a redemption tale. I think this is movie lives up to its name because most everybody in there makes up for their mistakes. For example Reds mistake was murder and he made up for it by serving 40 years in prison. Red ended up leaving prison thoughtful and very wise.

 This movie has two main characters that are redeemed. The main character that I will talk about first is Andy.  Andy got put into prison for killing his wife and her lover. Andy made the best out of prison by helping a lot of people out. He helped Tommy a lot by tutoring him to finally get him to get his GED. When Andy first got to prison he didn’t talk to anyone for a while until one day he need something from his Red. Andy asks Red for a rock hammer because he always loved rocks. When Tommy came into the picture he was telling Andy how his old cell mate said he kill a girl and her lover but make it look like it was Andy. After that Andy tried to go back to court to try and get out of prison. The warden didn’t want Tommy to testify for Andy so he took him out back and had Tommy killed. Andy didn’t loss hope when his plan got killed he stayed positive and change his plan. Andy’s plan then was to dig a hole to get out of prison. His best friend red never even knew about his plan. His plan was to dig a hole through the wall using a rock hammer. After the hole he made it to the sewer pipe that he crawled through till he was finally out free. Andy stuck to his plan for 19 years which took some passion and hope.

   The next main character was Red he was in prison for 40 years because of murder.  Red said that he did something really stupid as a child and now he has to regret it and pay for it every day. He was always a kind helpful man. If you meant him you would never understand why he was in there or why he would kill someone.  When Red finely gets out of prison he does the one thing that Andy ask him to do. Andy gave Red all the money he will need to come find him in Mexico. The story ended with Red meeting Andy on the beach and them hugging it out. The story ended showing that bad men can come out to be good people.

This movie was like a very touching story showing that just because you make one little mistake when you where young doesn’t make you a horrible person.