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.