![]() First-Person Peripheral Narrator: Red narrates but the focus of the story is on Andy.Divorce in Reno: Linda Dufresne was murdered right after she told Andy she wanted a Reno divorce.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. He has difficulty adjusting to the life outside, and considers committing some crime just that he could get back. Desires Prison Life: Red is paroled after spending 38 years in prison.Chekhov's Hobby: Andy is a "rockhound", an amateur geologist.Big Bad: Samuel Norton, the Warden of Shawshank Penitentiary who tries to cover up the fact that there is evidence of Andy Dufresne’s innocence and keep him locked up because he is aware of his money-laundering through his book-keeping job.This carries over to their civilian lives after they've been institutionalized, often to the annoyance of their work-release employers. Bathroom Control: Prisoners have to ask permission to use the restroom.The novella is nearly one hundred pages long (and unless Red has really small handwriting, the same story in longhand would probably consist of even more pages). Red at the end smuggles out the pages on which he is writing the manuscript with the same trick. ![]() Ass Shove: Andy smuggles five hundred dollars into the prison by this method.Stephen King is, however, on record saying he wishes it was. Approval of God: The scene in the film where Andy plays "Sull'aria" on the PA system is not in the short story.Animal Motifs: Red compares the sisters to jackals in that they tease their prey and hunt the most vulnerable.'.In addition to the novellas, the book contains an afterword by King in which he speaks about being typecast as a horror writer, and the plight of the unfortunate author who has written a story that is too short to be sold as a novel, and yet too long to comfortably be printed by short-fiction magazines and anthologies. The Breathing Method (or, A Winter's Tale) - A single woman wants to carry her child to term, no matter what.Made into a movie under the title Stand by Me. The Body (or, Fall from Innocence) - Four young friends trek into the woods to see another boy's corpse.Made into a movie by Bryan Singer starring Sir Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro. Apt Pupil (or, Summer of Corruption) - A teenage boy learns about the Holocaust right from the source. ![]() Made into The Shawshank Redemption in 1994. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (or, Hope Springs Eternal) - Hope springs eternal, even in prison.The four novellas in Different Seasons are, in order presented: Three of the four novellas were later adapted into feature films. Published in 1982, it represented something of a departure for King at that point, as three of the novellas were straight dramatic stories (albeit with some horrific elements) that did not deal with the supernatural fiction that he was known for. ![]() Different Seasons is a collection of four novellas by Stephen King. ![]()
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