![]() While Norton gave the advice with the expectation that it would lead Andy to give up hope of escape-since salvation lies "within," i.e., in one's mind rather than in external freedom, Andy flips the meaning, showing how he used the Bible, Norton's instrument of "internal" salvation, to hide his means of escape "within" it. In this moment, Andy has completely toyed with Norton's advice and turned it back on him, an ironic literalization of Norton's condescending advice. As the warden flips through the Bible, he finds a hole in the shape of the rock hammer in which Andy has been hiding his instrument of escape. In the front cover, Andy has written, "You were right, Salvation lay within," which echoes some spiritual advice Norton gave him earlier. The Rock Hammer in the Bible (Situational and Verbal Irony)Īfter Andy escapes, Norton goes to consult his Bible, but he finds that his own copy has been switched out with Andy's. The irony, Bogs finds out, is that if he puts that in Andy's ear, Andy's jaw will lock on whatever is in his mouth, and it will take a crowbar to open it up. He tells Andy he's going to put eight inches of a steel knife in his ear if he doesn't give him oral sex. ![]() In this moment, we see that Andy is an unusually generous person, made most happy by seeing that other people are enjoying themselves.īogs and his gang of queens have Andy held down in the film projection room. His generosity is ironic, in that it is unclear why he would risk his life to ask for a favor from the guard if it was not a favor that he wanted to enjoy himself. The men enjoy cold beers under the hot sun on the roof where they are working, but Andy does not partake. ![]() It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God.Buy Study Guide Suds on a Sunny Day (Situational Irony)Īndy, after giving Hadley financial advice, asks for three beers for every man he's working with in return for the information. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. ![]() In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. ![]() Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon. ![]()
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