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* DesiresPrisonLife: Red is paroled after spending 38 years in prison. He has difficulty adjusting to the life outside, and considers committing some crime just that he could get back. Only thinking about Andy keeps him from doing it - he doesn't want to throw away the freedom Andy worked so hard to win back.

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* CrimeOfPassion: {{Discussed|Trope}}. The district attorney prosecuting Andy Dufresne says that Andy finding his wife and lover in each other's arms, it might have been ''"understandable"'', if not condoned, if Andy had simply shot them in the heat of the moment. But as he points out, that isn't what happened. Each of the victims received four shots from a revolver, meaning that Andy had to empty the gun, reload, then fire again. [[spoiler:Though, for the record, Andy really wasn't the killer, but was unable to provide his revolver for forensic comparison as he'd chucked it in a river, and so he was convicted of the crime, anyway.]]
* DesiresPrisonLife: Red is paroled after spending 38 years in prison. He has difficulty adjusting to the life outside, outside and considers committing some crime just that he could get back. Only thinking about Andy keeps him from doing it - he doesn't want to throw away the freedom Andy worked so hard to win back.
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: When it turns out that Tommy's testimony could help Andy earn his freedom, Warden Norton sets up a transfer request. Andy is screwed one way or another, since Tommy can either say nothing or find himself in an even worse worse prison than Shawshank. The only real question is whether or not Tommy is willing to accept conditions at the relatively benign Cashman prison and use the furlough program there to spend time with his family again, at least on weekends. [[EveryManHasHisPrice He is]].

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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: When it turns out that Tommy's testimony could help Andy earn his freedom, Warden Norton sets up a transfer request. Andy is screwed one way or another, since Tommy can either say nothing or find himself in an even worse worse prison than Shawshank. The only real question is whether or not Tommy is willing to accept conditions at the relatively benign Cashman prison and use the furlough program there to spend time with his family again, at least on weekends. [[EveryManHasHisPrice He is]].
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: When it turns out that Tommy's testimony could help Andy earn his freedom, Warden Norton sets up a transfer request. Andy is screwed one way or another, since Tommy can either say nothing or find himself in an even worse worse prison than Shawshank. The only real question is whether or not Tommy is willing to accept conditions at the relatively benign Cashman prison and use the furlough program there to spend time with his family again, at least on weekends. [[EveryManHasHisPrice He is]].
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* RefugeInAudacity: Red tells a story about a Shawshank prisoner who escaped by simply walking out the front door while the gate was open and the guards were changing shifts.

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* RefugeInAudacity: Red tells a story about a Shawshank prisoner who escaped by simply walking out stoically driving a piece of yard machinery through the open front door gate while the gate was open and the guards were changing shifts.



* AxCrazy: In the book, Todd is ''seriously'' messed up and his fixation on the Holocaust doesn’t help matters much. [[spoiler: It gets to the point where he pretends to snipe at drivers from the top of a highway ForTheEvulz before losing it completely and going on a killing spree.]]

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* AxCrazy: In the book, Todd is ''seriously'' messed up and his fixation on the Holocaust doesn’t help matters much. [[spoiler: It gets to the point where he pretends to snipe at drivers from the top of a highway ForTheEvulz before losing it completely and going on a real killing spree.spree using that method.]]



* CrisisOfFaith: Morris Heisel survived the Holocaust, while his first wife and his two daughters perished. Decades later, after he falls from a ladder, breaks his spine and becomes crippled, he declares what he has long believed is true; there is no God. [[spoiler:He regains his faith in God after he ends up in the same hospital room with Dussander, who was the commander of the camp he was imprisoned in, and manages to identify him, which leads to Dussander's capture.]]

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* CrisisOfFaith: Morris Heisel survived the Holocaust, while his first wife and his two daughters perished. Decades later, after he falls from a ladder, breaks his spine and becomes crippled, he declares what he has long believed is true; there is no God. [[spoiler:He regains his faith in God after he ends up in the same hospital room with Dussander, who was the commander of the camp he was imprisoned in, and manages to identify him, which leads to Dussander's capture.exposure.]]



* SequelHook: "Yes, always more tales. And perhaps, one day, I'll tell you another." (In fact, there is a sequel-of-sorts about the Club at 249B: "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands" from ''Literature/SkeletonCrew''. Unfortunately, this is the only other story from the club.)

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* SequelHook: "Yes, always more tales. And perhaps, one day, I'll tell you another." (In fact, there is a sequel-of-sorts about the Club at 249B: "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands" from ''Literature/SkeletonCrew''. Unfortunately, to date this is the only other story from the club.)
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When he's talking with Andy about making a chessboard, Red specifically says he's in for murder, same as Andy and says he's the "only guilty man in Shawshank".


* InsuranceFraud: This version of Red is a little more evil than the movie's (which never revealed his crime, though he described it as "terrible", probably to be sympathetic with audiences). He took out insurance on his wife and then cut the brakes to her car. She was killed in a crash with some neighbors she'd given a ride to, netting him life in prison.

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* InsuranceFraud: This version of Red is a little more evil than the movie's (which never revealed his crime, though (where we only learn that he described it as "terrible", committed murder but no details, probably to be sympathetic with audiences). He took out insurance on his wife and then cut the brakes to her car. She was killed in a crash with some neighbors she'd given a ride to, netting him life in prison.
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* ClosetKey: Red mentions that some inmates didn't realize until prison that they're gay or bisexual, having never been with a man before getting into a relationship with one while inside.
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* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: After being paroled, Red is ill-prepared for life outside prison, despite his wishes to be freed.
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* ''The Body (or, Fall from Innocence)'' - Four young friends trek into the woods to see another boy's corpse. Made into a movie under the title ''Film/StandByMe''.

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* ''The Body (or, Fall from Innocence)'' - Four young friends trek into the woods to see another boy's corpse. Made into a movie under the title ''Film/StandByMe''.''Film/StandByMe'' in 1986.
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* SkinnyDipping: The boys do this when they come across a small pond next to the train tracks. Too late do they realize the pond is filled with leeches.
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* FoodInterrogation: This was Kurt Dussander's favored interrogation method at the concentration camp he was an officer in:
-->''In the room Dussander used for prisoner interrogations there was a hotplate and a homely kitchen table covered with a red checked cloth much like the one in his own kitchen. There was always a pot of lamb stew bubbling mellowly away on that hotplate. When contraband was suspected (and when was it not...) a member of the suspected clique would be brought to that room. Dussander would stand them by the hotplate, where the rich fumes from the stew wafted. Gently, he would ask them Who. Who is hiding gold? Who is hiding jewellery? Who has tobacco? Who gave the Givenet woman the pill for her baby? Who? The stew was never specifically promised; but always the aroma eventually loosened their tongues.''
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* ''Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (or, Hope Springs Eternal)'' - Hope springs eternal, even in prison. Made into the [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption 1994 film]].

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* ''Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (or, Hope Springs Eternal)'' - Hope springs eternal, even in prison. Made into the [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption 1994 film]].''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' in 1994.
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* SpreeKiller: [[TeensAreMonsters Todd Bowden]], a seemingly ordinary boy who is secretly a [[AxCrazy budding psychopath]] with an obsession with Nazi war crimes fantasies about going on a killing spree, regularly thinking about murdering his loving parents and girlfriend, and at one point pretends to snipe drivers from a top the highway. He only holds off for fear of the reprisal that would occur. [[spoiler:At the climax realising it will all come out about his involvement with Kurt Dussander, a former Nazi commander in hiding, and all the [[SerialKiller homeless people he murdered]], he decides to embrace it. Taking his .22 rifle he first murders his guidance counsellor Rubber Ed, then heading to a highly-populated location opens fire on random citizens for five hours straight before being killed by the police.]]

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* SpreeKiller: [[TeensAreMonsters Todd Bowden]], a seemingly ordinary boy who is secretly a [[AxCrazy budding psychopath]] with an obsession with Nazi war crimes fantasies about going on a killing spree, regularly thinking about murdering his loving parents and girlfriend, and at one point pretends to snipe drivers from a top the highway. He only holds off for fear of the reprisal that would occur. [[spoiler:At the climax realising it will all come out about his involvement with Kurt Dussander, a former Nazi commander in hiding, and all the [[SerialKiller homeless people he murdered]], he decides to embrace it. Taking his .his father's .22 rifle he first murders his guidance counsellor Rubber Ed, then heading to a highly-populated location opens fire on random citizens for five hours straight before being killed by the police.]]

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