During his long prison life, Andy kept secrets from everyone. On the one hand, he prepared to dig the wall to escape from prison, on the other hand, he arranged his identity after he got out of prison. At the same time, we can make prison life look more free, more dignified and more valuable: build and manage the library and teach illiterate Tommy to take the exam by himself.
Once, Tommy learned the truth about Andy's unjust imprisonment and was willing to testify in court. However, it was murdered by the warden and the prison guard in collusion. In a place like prison, it is as evil as outside the law. This made Andy feel desperate.
The whole story takes place in the most desperate place in the world, the prison. However, Andy realized his hopes and dreams. Almost soon after Andy entered the prison, he actually made up his mind to set the goal of regaining his freedom, and then worked hard for this goal day after day. 19 years, his dream finally came true and he was free. By the way, I also helped my friend Rhett embark on the road to freedom.
I was particularly moved by a passage in it: Andy found a record in a pile of old books, then locked the door of the warden's office and played the record. All the prisoners were shocked by the opera and enjoyed a few minutes of "spiritual freedom". He was locked up for two weeks, but he was relaxed. He said: I don't feel lonely with Mozart in my head. He explained why this record was played, and he hoped that the inmates would understand that even in prison, we can have a part of ourselves completely, even in a prison where we eat and drink Lazar.
This passage reminds me of frankl's "Living the Meaning of Life", telling us that even if we live in a precarious place like a concentration camp, we can have the freedom to choose how to face it. In the final analysis, living in the most cramped and unrestrained place gives us the last free space.
Andy went to prison and frankl went to a concentration camp. They all realized the same thing. In fact, for everyone in our life, when we are young, we may all be expected to have high hopes, or we may have dreams. So, in fact, everyone is not trapped in an invisible cage. This cage may be shallow knowledge, may be lazy, may be someone who claims to love you, or may be a tragic past ... Someone "escaped" and succeeded, and finally achieved his goal, realized his dream and lived what he wanted to be. And some people, however, follow the big slip, give up their dreams and live like ants.
Self-discipline seems to be very useful in the journey beyond the cage of life. Since he was in prison for about a month, he asked for a crane's beak hammer and began to fight for freedom. Walking every day is better than walking around, because he is shaking off the mud dug by digging the wall. In the first half of the story, Andy's self-discipline is shown by another thing: he wrote to the government every week to apply for the budget of running the prison library, and the government paid him $200, so he wrote twice a week instead, and so on for several years, and finally succeeded. The beauty poster on the wall was changed three times, which lasted 19 years. Finally, he cut through the thick wall of the prison, broke the sewer pipe in the night of lightning and thunder, endured the stench and climbed out.
It is not enough to have the dream of escaping from prison. We must persist in digging day after day and never give up the spirit of giving up no matter what difficulties we experience, so that we can wait until it rains cats and dogs and scream freely. Andy said that hope is a great thing, maybe the best thing. None of them.