Key Themes

Hope, freedom, redemption, fear, friendship, suffering, punishment, imprisonment

Redemption (n) - The act of redeeming.

Redeeming (adj) - Serving to compensate for faults or deficiencies.

Redeem (vb) - 1. To recover possession of by payment of a price or service. 2. To convert (bonds or shares) into cash. 3. To pay off (a loan or debt). 4. To recover (something mortgaged or pawned). 5. To exchange (coupons) for goods. 6. To fulfil (a promise) 7. To reinstate someone's good opinion. 8. To make amends for. 9. To recover from captivity, esp. by a money payment.

Taken from,

The Collins Pocket Dictionary, HarperCollins Publishers, England, 1989.