Determination You can’t cage a free spirit. Andy was determined to live a normal life while in prison. Andy’s determination was very influential to his fellow inmates, and to his own life. It seemed at times that Andy had a sort of force field around him and that nothing around him could affect him unless he wanted it to. Andy’s determination to live a normal life and to be a free man …showed first 75 words of 402 total…

…showed last 75 words of 402 total…was a changed man after knowing Andy. Shawshank was never the same after Andy arrived, and it changed even more after he left. His influence on the inmates changed the environment forever. Shortly after Andy escaped there was an anonymous article submitted to the newspaper that exploited the cruelty of the Warden and his Guards and they were arrested the same day. Determination was the gas that fueled the engine of change at Shawshank Prison.