Shawshank_Redemption

Shawshank Redemption Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the novella by Stephen King, has great literary value. A book with literary value influences its reader and keeps them interested from start to finish. This book most certainly meets these criteria. First, it contains themes and life lessons that can be learned throughout life. One of the themes is the hypocrisy of the prison system; guards that can be influenced for the right price, and a warden, a “man of the church,” who is downright evil and accepts bribes from corporations to compete with his slave labor “Inside-Out” program. Another theme is the strength of the human spirit; “King’s visionary flight in [this novella] shows us the natural shape of the human soul” (Atchity in SSC 263). Andy manages to maintain hope throughout his duration in prison. Also, the inmates looking out for themselves show the life lesson of “every man for himself.” Tommy Williams, a prisoner who knows the real killer of Andy’s wife and her lover, agrees with the warden not to release this information in exchange for money and a transfer to a shawshank, redemption, value, literary, life, themes, language, great, rita, right, prison, novella, lessons, hayworth, everyday, book, way, warden, throughout, through, subject, ssc, shape, person, one, man, king’s, king, interested, human, common, best, because, another, writes