Redemption

           This blog will be about redemption. What is redemption you ask, Redemption is forgiveness or absolution for past sins or failures. You will find that many people in prison seek to be redeemed from something. It's a place to think on what your life was worth or what you did to get in there. The Shawshank Redemption is a good example of redemption. I am going to try to make you better understand redemption and show you who was redeemed in the film.
            At first I thought that the main character Andy Dufresne would be the one to be redeemed but as the film went along I realized that yes Andy did search to be redeemed but he didn't get redeemed. He helped people with their problems. He helped some of the prisoners pass high school. He remodeled the library after Brooks (the old librarian) killed himself. He did the guards taxes. After all of the things Andy did he was never redeemed. It could have been that he wasn't redeemed because he didn't actually kill anyone. He was the one truly innocent man in Shawshank. As much good that he did in Shawshank he didn't find what he was looking for. I believe that everyone in Shawshank that met Andy got something out of meeting him.
            I believe that the one person that was truly redeemed was Red. Red was in Shawshank for about 40 years. In the movie you saw Red get rejected a few times and he always said the same thing. The last time though he was accepted and that time he talked all about regret and how it was just words. Red realized that when he did the crime he was young and stupid and every day since he got into Shawshank he regretted what he had done. Regret is feeling sad and repent for something that you did or something that had happened to you. Throughout the film you saw that Red didn't really have any hope and he didn't wish to be on the outside world. In there he was the man that can get just about everything but on the outside he was nobody just some felon. Andy always had hope and he wanted Red to have hope to because without hope you have nothing.
            After Andy escaped from Shawshank Red started to realize that hope was something good to have. After Red finally got probation he got the same room as Brooks and the same job too. He thought of ways that he could get back into Shawshank and the only thing that kept him from doing it was the thought of seeing his friend again. After a little while Red left his job and the halfway house so he could do the one thing that Andy asked of him, to find what was hidden under a tree and under a rock. He found a letter and some money. The letter was from Andy and it said that Andy was glad that Red found his hope and he wanted Red to come down to Mexico to see him. Andy was the reason that Red got redeemed. Andy showed him what the meaning of life was and just because he had almost no chance of getting out of Shawshank that he needed to have hope. That is how Red got redeemed he just needed to find himself and to find the worth of his life first.