in this moment, Red stops telling the board what he believes they want to hear and finally speaks the truth. Red has been rejected by the parole board every time he has met with them, but when he gives this speech after 40 years behind bars, they set him free. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit." Red So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left. I want to try to talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. Not because I'm in here, because you think I should. "There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Additionally, Andy must literally crawl through the plumbing in order to escape from Shawshank. Andy was sent to prison for murders he did not commit, and Red suggests that he had to climb out of this figurative "river of shit" to find freedom. Red says this about Andy after Andy has escaped from prison, and it has both a literal and a figurative meaning. "Andy Dufresne, who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side." Red
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