Shawshank Redemption page 91-101

In the next pages of the novel we got reminded of Red being the narrator as well as a character in the story. Red recaps and goes back in the story to give us a better understanding of how Andy escaped. He explained that when Andy bought the rock hammer he had no intentions of using it to escape from Shawshank, but use it to carve into rocks as a hobby. Andy realized that he could use the rock hammer to chisel through the wall when he tried carving his initials into the wall and when doing so he discovered the concrete was very weak, and a big piece of the wall fell out. This is when the poster came in handy to him, he used it to cover up the hole in the wall and because the posters would keep decaying over time, he had to keep ordering new girls to replace the old one. In October 1967, Andys rock hobby turned into a 4 foot hole in wall. Andy didn't escape until 8 years after he realized he could actually escape. The summer of 1975 Red had gotten a postcard sent to him with no writing on it except from where it was sent from. Zihuatanejo, Mexico was where the card was sent from, and immediately Red knew it was from Andy because of there talks about that being the place Andy wants to spend the rest of his life. I liked these pages because Red had connected all the hints throughout the story and told us about how Andy manged to escape.

Shawshank Redemption Page 58_68

Tommy Williams came to Shawshank in November 1962, because of stealing, he considered himself a professional thief. After asking around Tommy had become very interested in Andy Dufresne's trail. He couldnt believe Andy had killed pro golfer Glenn Quentin. Tommy had let loose of a bunch of information to Andy he told him about how he spent some time in Rhode Island prison with a creep named Elwood Blatch who had been sent there for murder, burglary, and robbery.  Blatch told Tommy about how he killed Glenn Quentin and a woman, and that some other guy (Andy) was doing the time for him. At this part in the novel we find out that Andy is accually innocent and he did not commit the murder he got sent to Shawshank because of.

Shawshank Redemption page 48-58

Andy started working in the library and soon became the librarian, he improved the library and finally god approved for a donation check for library funds, it started at $200 and rose to $1000. By 1951 Andy was doing tax returns for half the officers at Shawshank, and by 1952 he was doing them for almost all of them. Due to this Andy became a very important person at the jail, and the guards paid him in good will.  The prisons population had been growing slowly, but expanded incredibly in the 60's. Byron Hadley died of a heart attack in 1961. Andy had a poster of Rita Hayworth that hung in his cell until 1955, after that Marilyn Monroe took over until 1960, then Jayne Mansfield. A year later  Hazel Court took over, then in 1966 Raquel Welch hung in his cell for 6 years. Finally the woman that had hung in his cell was Linda Ronstadt. A new warden had come into Shawshank he was the most awful, hypocritical man that held great power that had come into the place. Norton had worked at the prison for 16 long years, and everyone grew sick of him immediately.

Shawshank Redemption page 15-25

In the beginning of the book we are introduced to our 2 main characters Red, and Andy Dufresne. Shawshank Redemption Prison, is where the story takes place and where the 2 of them currently are. Red is the narrator, aswell as a character in this story. Red tells us about his background and why he is at Shawshank, aswell as he tells us about Andy and why he's there. Red is at Shawshank serving three life sentences because while intending to kill his wife by cutting the breaks on her car, he also kills a lady and her child whom his wife picked up after getting in her car; all three of them died. Andy is at the prison because he is believed to have killed his wife and her lover whom she was cheating on him with. We aren't 100% sure is he did it yet. I liked the beginning of the book mostly because it made me want to keep reading. I can't wait to continue!