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Hope is a

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fter the murder of his wife, hotshot banker Andrew Dufresne is sent to Shawshank Prison, where the usual unpleasantness occurs.

Over the years, he retains hope and eventually gains the respect of his fellow inmates, especially longtime convict “Red� Redding, a black marketeer, and becomes influential within the prison. Eventually, Andrew achieves his ends on his own terms.

Date: March 5, 1925

Doing Time

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hen the first night came, the chief guard, Byron Hadley, savagely beats an overweight and newly arrived inmate because of his crying and hysterics. The inmate later dies in the infirmary because the prison doctor had left for the night. Meanwhile, Andy still remained steadfast and composed. Ellis Boyd Redding bet against others that Andy would be the one to break down first and loses a considerable amount of cash. Red has been in prison for several plus years having been given three consecutive life sentences for the murder of his wife and two others along with her death.

Date: April 5, 1925 About a month later, Andy approaches Red, who runs contraband inside the walls of Shawshank. He asks Red to find him a rock hammer, an instrument he claims is necessary for his hobby of rock collecting and sculpting. Though other prisoners consider Andy “a really cold fish,” Red sees something in Andy, and likes him from the start. Red believes Andy intends to use the hammer to engineer his escape in the future but when the tool arrives and he sees how small it is, Red puts aside the thought that Andy could ever use it to dig his way out of prison.

During the first two years of his incarceration, Andy works in the prison laundry. He attracts attention from “the Sisters,” a group of prisoners who sexually assault other prisoners. Though he persistently resists and fights them, Andy is beaten and raped on a regular basis.

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Different Day" The Inside Man Red pulls some strings and gets Andy and a few of their mutual friends a break by getting them all on a work detail tarring the roof of one of the prison’s buildings. During the job Andy overhears Hadley complaining about having to pay taxes for an upcoming inheritance. Drawing on expertise being a banker, Andy lets Hadley know how he can shelter his money from the IRS, turning it into a gift for his wife. He says he’ll assist in exchange for some cold beers for his fellow inmates while on the tarring job. Though he at first threatens to throw Andy off the roof, Hadley, the most brutal guard in the prison, agrees, providing the men with cold beer before the job is finished. Red remarks that Andy may have engineered the privilege to build favor with the prison guards as much as with his fellow inmates, but Red also thinks Andy did it simply to “feel free.”

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Andy and his men shared beers in compensation for Andy helping the commander with taxes.

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“I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more grey.”

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“ The Cold Fish No. 37927 Appearance Height: 6’1” Weight: 201 lbs Eye Color: Green Skin Color: White Hair Color: Brown Right hand dominant No gang affiliations

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19 yrs

Time Fulfilled (Life Sentence)

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$370,000 +

Letters Written (6 Years)

Hobbies

A short, neat, meticulous man with sandy blond hair, he has small hands and wears gold-rimmed glasses. Most of the other inmates think that Andy is cold and snobbish because he’s always so calm and composed, rarely revealing his inner thoughts or true character. Andy eventually becomes the prison librarian and financial wizard, offering free tax advice to guards and wardens in exchange for protection and favors. He’s one of the few innocent inmates at Shawshank.

• Rock Carving • Reading • Writing Letters •Geology • Banking • Teaching Inmates

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• Swimming • Chess • Accounting • Playing Records

Illegal Offense Crime: Two counts of first degree murder Sentence: Lifetime sentence

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Admitted From: Portland, ME

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“Hope is a good thing, may be the best of the things. And good things never die.”

Durability Inside Connections

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items smuggled (38 Years)

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A convicted murderer serving a life sentence, Red writes the story to try to make sense of his friendship with Andy, his life in prison, and his hopes for the future. Red is a key figure inside prison, a lifeline to the outside world who can smuggle almost anything into the prison — for a price. Once paroled, he struggles with his newfound freedom, dissatisfied with his job and still without hope for a better future.

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• Trading • Chess • Smuggling • Throwing • Baseball • Harmonica

• Gambling • Story Telling • Item Collecting • Reading • Relaxing

Illegal Offense Crime: Three counts of first degree murder Sentence: Lifetime sentence

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Admitted From: Mt. Vernon, MI

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“Get busy living or get busy dying”

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Date: April 10, 1947

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hat morning, around the same time that Norton discovered Andy’s escape, Andy walks into the Maine National Bank in nearby Portland, where he had put Warden Norton’s money. Using his assumed identity as Randall Stephens, and with all the necessary documentation, he closes the account and walks out with a cashier’s check.

Before he leaves, he asks them to drop a package in the mail.

He continues his visitations to nearly a dozen other local banks, ending up with some $370,000. The package contains Warden Norton’s account books, which are delivered straight to the Portland Daily Bugle newspaper.

The cross is a symbol of faith and someone’s redemption

Date: April 12, 1947

Justice is Served Not long after, the police storm Shawshank Prison with arrest warrants.

Hadley is arrested for the murder of Tommy Williams and other inmates; Red narrates that Hadley was taken away "crying like a little girl." Warden Norton finally opens his safe, which he hadn't touched since Andy escaped, and instead of his books, he finds the Bible he had given Andy. Norton opens it to the book of Exodus and finds that the pages have been cut out in the shape of a rock hammer. Norton walks back to his desk as the police pound on his door, takes out a small revolver and shoots

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himself under the chin. Red remarks that he wondered if the warden thought, right before pulling the trigger, how "Andy could ever have gotten the best of him."

Shortly after, Red receives a postcard from Fort Hancock, Texas, with nothing written on it. Red takes it as a sign that Andy made it into Mexico to freedom. Red and his buddies kill time talking about Andy’s exploits (with a lot of embellishments), but Red just misses his friend.

At Red’s next parole hearing one year later in 1967, he talks to the parole board about how “rehabilitated” was a made-up word,

and how he regretted his actions of the past of murder over 40 years ago and no longer expects anything from them. His parole is granted this time. He goes to work at a grocery store, and stays at the same halfway house room Brooks had stayed in.

He frequently walks by a pawn shop which has several guns and compasses in the window. At times he contemplates trying to get back into prison feeling that he has no life outside of prison where he has spent most of his adult life, but he remembers the promise he made to Andy.

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n 1966, Andy escaped from Shawshank Prison. He had spent 19 years tunneling through the wall of his cell with his Rock Hammer, his hole covered by his poster of Raquel Welch. After Tommy was shot by Hadley under the command of Norton because he knew information that could support Andy’s innocence, Andy decided he had been there long enough. He waited for one stormy night, whereupon he took the warden’s shoes, and one of his suits, whilst hiding his rock hammer in the bible he had been issued upon his arrival, which he swapped for the Warden’s ledger. He procured a 6-foot length rope from Heywood, and tied a plastic bag filled with the records and books as well as the stolen suit and his chess pieces made from carved rocks.

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