Recently, I watched a classic and widely acclaimed movie called The Shawshank Redemption. I am positive that nearly everybody reading this has seen it. It's often a pleasure to view a movie you have not seen in many years, as I find that my brain forgets many of the essential little details and nuances that contribute to the uniqueness of that movie.
The Oxford Dictionary defines hope as a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen (2). To me, the key words in this definition are "expectation" and "desire." An expectation is defined as a strong belief that something will happen or be the case (3). Clearly, Andy fervently clings to the expectation that he will one day be free from Shawshank, for he would not speak with such passion about it if he did not. A desire is defined as a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen (4). By the same reasoning above, Andy desires to leave Shawshank.
At the end of the movie, we the viewers are shown how Andy escaped Shawshank. For every night over nineteen years, he meticulously chipped away at the soft stone wall of his prison cell with a small rock hammer, hiding handfuls of the chippings in his pockets and disposing of them in the prison courtyard the following day. He hid the rock hammer in his bible, and he hid the enormous hole in the wall with a poster. These actions were deliberate, focused, and goal-oriented, the goal being escape.
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