Hopeless?

The Swashank Redemption is a movie about a man (Andy Dufresne) who is sentenced a life time in prison, innocent. He meets another man in prison and they become friends. Some people have become used to the life in prison, but Andy can’t. Should you lose hope?

An old man in the movie died because he lost hope. He was an elderly and got free because of his age. He never thought that he could get out of prison and lost hope because of that. In the fifty years that he lived in prison, he got used to it. He was somebody, because he was the library man. When he got out he was a nobody and had to work in a supermarket. Because he lost hope over the years he became a stranger of the world outside and committed suicide.

Andy Dufresne never lost hope. His friends in prison could not understand why, cause they were never getting out including Dufresne himself! Dufresne saw what it did to the little old man and claimed to a friend that hope is the only way for not getting insane. With his hope and a little pickaxe he managed to dig a hole in 15 years time. He was a free man in a world that he always kept in mind.

Dufresne's friend learned a lesson of this. His story went the same as the old man that died. He was a stranger of the world outside and had to work in the supermarket. But Dufresne's positivism and plan gave the friend the hope to find him again. It was a difficult search but he did not give up hope and he found Dufresne. Sometimes things in life look hopeless, but there is always a way to get out of that situation.