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Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption How can one face everyday challenges? Hope gives people the courage to face challenges. As seen in Stephen King’s Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, it displays hope as a powerful emotion in which individuals can use to carry themselves through challenges. In the novella, hope is shown through the character Ellis â€Å"Red† Redding, a man who on the inside was â€Å"a man who could get you things†, but on the outside was something much different. It is shown to us through the life of Andy Dufresne, an innocent man accused of murder with a large amount of hope. Even though life throws challenges, it is important for one to have hope for the future, in order to completely enjoy a satisfying life. The Rita Hayworth poster is an example of courage to face challenges. When Andy receives the poster, he then has courage to try and escape. We will write a custom essay sample on Eng4C or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page â€Å"You look at those pretty women and you feel like you could almost not quite but almost step right through and be beside them. Be free. (55-56) Showing that if it wasn’t for the weak concrete, he wouldn’t have hope that gives people the courage to face challenges such as; try and escape the prison. A personal experience would be when my sister gets grounded and my mom sends her to my room for an hour and she’s not allowed to use any electronics. She hates being in her room for an hour without electronics. She would usually try to leave but it’s difficult. Therefore, Andy Dufresne and my sister are similar in a way. They both need courage to face challenges; such as ‘escaping’ her room when grounded and escaping prison without the guards or my mom noticing. Secondly, hope can either drive a person forward to face challenges or destroy a person. Red, a man who can get you things, is an excellent example. When Andy first got to the prison, Red expressed a little bit of hope to leave. As shown after his parole interview in which they determine if a prisoner has been rehabilitated and can rejoin society, Red seemed very uncaring of being rejected. Red said, â€Å"These walls are funny: first you hate them. Then you get to know them. Comes a time when you depend on them. Red displays a lack of hope, believing that he and everyone else sentenced to Shawshank, is meant to be there for the rest of their lives, and should not waste their spirits on hope. But also at the end of the book where he says â€Å"I hope Andy is down there. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friends and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope. † (107) A personal experience would be when I hope for th ings; such as hoping to earn respect from everybody and in the end I get it. Like how Red hoped to see Andy, make it across the border, to see his friend and shake his hand and that the Pacific was blue like in his dreams. Red and I are somewhat similar in a way because he hoped for realistic things to happen once he was approved by the parole and everything he hoped for came true. That’s like me, when I hope for realistic things, they normally come true because I’m not aiming for something far and unrealistic. In conclusion, at one point in everyone’s life people are faced with challenges and hope gives them courage to face them like in Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.