Literary Devices in Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
What's Up With the Title?
Thanks to its movie adaptation, most of us know this story by its shortened title, The Shawshank Redemption, but the book actually has three parts to its title:Rita Hayworth: movie star and incredi...
What's Up With the Ending?
The ending is an odd one in Shawshank, so odd, in fact, that the movie took creative license to clarify certain details that Mr. King left out (Hollywood hates leaving us hanging.). The story ends...
Tough-o-Meter
King didn't become a kajillionaire by making his books hard to read. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemptionis narrated by Red, and we get our prose in quick, clever chunks. King is quite eloque...
Trivia
Andy's pipe-dream town, where he intends to open a hotel, is a real place. It has about 100,000 people, probably a lot less when Andy busted out, and it features a beautiful bay and a lot of sandy...
Steaminess Rating
As befits a guy who became fabulously rich writing about Satanic clowns and haunted hotels, Stephen King doesn't pull any punches. That not only means salty language and the occasional racial epita...
Allusions
The Miracle of '67Stephen King is a lifelong Red Sox fan and always finds ways to slip his team's ups and downs into his books. Before 2004, the Sox epitomized hapless losers, suffering under a "cu...