Suffering leads to redemption.

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2002)

In life we are all challenged with gross injustices. To some it may be being passed over for a promotion, or to others it may be something as trivial as being served the wrong plate at a restaurant. How we deal with those injustices shape our lives or end our lives. In Shawshank we see how one man is dealt with one of the largest injustices known to man, and accepts the injustice. He never asks for sympathy, for he believes in a way he deserves his fate. However, when the new world that he enters deals him a new hand of unfairness, our man once again accepts the misdeeds that are dealt him. The irony of the story is the only illegal thing that our man Andy does is what sets him free and redeems his life.