Hope is the vital foundation for all future plans and dreams. Without hope, there is no reason to believe life can be better. Hopeful people never give up on their quest to beat life's circumstances.Life's difficult circumstances might just be like cages.But then, some birds aren't meant to be caged. Be that bird. You don't like how it is today? Wait, there's always tomorrow.
Red's sense of possibility is rekindled just by hanging around with his persistently constructive new friend. Thanks to Andy's proactive nature, the convicts get cold beer on a hot day, an expanded library collection, and the elimination of various prison predators who previously had their way too many times. Who knows what new and interesting things can happen when Andy/hope is around?
Stephen King's screenplay for The Shawshank Redemption is a testimony to the inspiring capacity of hope. Even prisoners can escape the inhumanity of their existence by maintaining a little hope. We all need to remain hopeful throughout our lives.I hope I don't sound proselytizing when I say so, but then for me there remains no reason to exist except hope.
By the end of the film, Red's outlook has come around completely, feeling the excitement of his life as-yet-unfulfilled. His final thoughts are, "I find I'm so excited I can barely sit or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope I can see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it is in my dreams. I hope."
Hope is a good thing . And a good thing never dies.
