Pg. #101-107

These were the final pages of the novella, and the story came to a great end. It is May, 1977 and Red was finally approved on his after 38 years, and is out of Shawshank State prison. He has a descent job, and is living in a lower-class hotel. Red is having a hard time adjusting back to regular life, he was so used to the same routine every day for so many years, that he finds himself not knowing what to do with all his free time. Everything seems new, strange and frightening, he can't believe how much society has changed since he was a free man. He even thought about doing something to get sent back to Shawshank, where he knew everything so well and all of the routines were imbedded in his mind, but stopped himself as he thought of Andy. On April 23rd, a day Red will never forget, he went for a walk on a street called "Old Smith Road." Mid afternoon, a big hayfield appeared on his left lined by a rock wall. Could this be what Andy spoke of in the prison? Red was in Buxton after all... So he followed the wall and it led him straight to the rock Andy was talking about. He lifted it up out of pure curiosity, and found an envelope sealed in a plastic baggie. It was from Andy, and it was for him. In the letter, Andy explains that obviously Red is out if he's reading it. Andy asks Red to come with him a little further to a little town he spoke of a while ago, and help him get the business going he had dreamed of. Andy says to always hope, because hope is a great and powerful thing. After reading the letter, Red immediately goes back to the hotel, packs his suitcase, has a drink for Andy, and begins his journey to Zihuatanejo, Mexico and he hopes he will see Andy Dufresne once again. The conclusion to the novel was brilliant. It summed up the story perfectly, and I loved the ending. Although we aren't sure if Red ever made it to Andy, or if they started their very own hotel like he wanted, we can hope that they were united as friends, once again. Overall, it was an amazing novella and I can honestly say I enjoyed every page. Bravo Stephen King!

Pg. #91-101

In these 12 pages of the book, we are reminded that Red is the narrorator of the story, he recaps the whole story, making a few things clearer. He explains that Andy's first intention with the rockhammer was not to escape from the prison in any way, but to chisel and carve rocks with it. But one night, as Andy was carving his initials into his cell wall, he discovered extremely weak concrete. Then the idea of the poster came to him. After he put it up on his wall, every night in the 2 hours of safe time he had, he would hammer at the wall. Red assumes Andy was just doing it as a hobby, and saying to himself I wonder how long it will take them to find out. Anything new, and out of Shawshank routine was welcome to him. But in October, 1967, Andy's long time hobby became something else; something more. He was 4 feet in the hole he made in the concrete wall, and as he swung the rock hammer at the wall, he heard bits of concrete fall down, what seemed to be a shaft. Andy became very careful just then, he held off his hammering to avoid suspicion-causing noise, and the thought of breaking out of prison frightened him. Andy didn't escape until 8 years after he found out he could actually escape. In late, late summer of 1975, Red received a postcard with no writing on it in the prison. It was from Zihuatanejo, Mexico. That was where Andy was going after he escaped. Even though there was nothing on it, Red knew in his heart that it was from Andy. I enjoy this part of the book because it sums up Andy's time at the prison. I'm glad we were reminded Red is the narrorator of the story, and that Andy truly is a brilliant man.

Pg. #80-91

These 11 pages in the novel are extremely critical. Something BIG happens, and there is a lot of information and detail about it. So first of all, Red starts talking about Jailbreaks and says they happen from time to time. After Andy told Red his post escape plan, Red started to believe he was actually going to escape. He though about going with him, but the idea scared him too much. Warden Norton had eyes like a hawk on Andy, it was going to be hard for him to pull this off. But in 1975, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank Redemption State Prison, and hasn't been recaptured since. Morning of March 12th 1975, the guards of Shawshank counted the inmates in Cellblock 5, but were 1 prisoner short. The guards soon discovered Andy Dufresne was missing. The employees at the higher power immediatley came down to the Cellblock, and when they looked in Andy's cell, they saw no one. The wailing horn went off, the warden was notified, the state police were alerted, and a search of the prison was in effect. Andy's cell wasn't searched for 12 hours after he was reported missing, it was then that they found out how he had gotten out. The poster. It was Linda Ronstadt by now. A poster hung in the exact same spot above his bunk for twenty-six years. When Norton pulled back the poster, a huge gaping hole in the concrete wall was revealed. From the day Andy asked for that Rita Hayworth poster, he began framing a plan. Andy hammered at the same spot covered by a poster for 19 years. He went through 4 feet of concrete, and following after that was 2 feet of pipe space. There was an extremely narrow pipe down which Andy shimmied straight into a master sewage pipe that emptied into a stream outside the prison. When the guards searched the hole in Andy's cell, they discovered blueprints; clearly Andy knew where he was going. The guards discovered all of this over 20 hours after he had escaped; Andy was long gone. This was is my favourite part of the story so far. I am so happy that Andy Dufresne finally escaped from Shawshank because he was completely innocent in the crime he was in for. I love how Andy escaped, and that nobody expected it. Stephen King described it in perfect detail, making sure the reader couldn't miss a single thing.

Pg. #68-80

In this part of the novel, Andy is beginning to get tired of prison, and he misses being a free man. Warden Norton purposely transferred Tommy Williams to another jail, preventing any chance Andy had to get out of Shawshank State Prison. Norton is being extremely selfish; he wants Andy to do all of the banking in the entire prison so he simply cannot have him leave. Norton hates Andy, and is doing everything in his power to make his life hell at the prison, and Andy still continues to do his dirty work. Andy is so sick of Shawshank Redemption he starts to talk to Red about where is is going to go once he leaves the prison, and wants Red to come with him. He speaks about a town in Mexico called Zihuatanejo, in which he wants to live after he escapes and hopefully open up his very own hotel. He tells Red about a specific black volcanic rock in Buxton, Maine. He says along a hay field there is a rock wall that faces northwest. Somewhere along the wall, lays this rock. Before Andy was formally charged, he quickly set up a fake ID, social security number, credit card and bank account all under the new name Peter Stevens, with help from his now deceased lawyer friend named Jim. Under the rock lays the key to Andy's safe deposit box in which all of these things are present. This was Andy's plan. This part of the novel was neat because it explained how clearly thought out, and neatly organized Andy put things in place to get out of Shawshank even before he was sentenced. I can't wait to find out if he follows through with his plan, and if it even works.

Pg. #58-68

In pages 58-68, we are introduced to Tommy Williams. He came to Sawshank in November, 1962 and was a professional thief. Shortly after he arrived, Andy began tutoring him in some classes, as his wife wanted him to atain his high school deploma. Soon after, Tommy became extremely interested in Andy's story, why he came here, and what he had done. Tommy started to ask around the prison as to why Andy was there, and couldn't believe what he found out. Tommy put the pieces of a puzzle he found out at the last prison he went to before being transferred to Shawshank State Prison. Tommy did some time with a creep at his former prison in Rhode Island whoose name was Elwood Blatch. The scum bag was a robber and a murderer when people caused him even the slightest problem. Blatch would always gloat to Tommy because he killed a pro golfer (Glenn Quinton) and a hot-shot banker's wife, and the banker was the one who was blamed, and he is the one doing time for it up in Shawshank! That banker was Andy. As soon as Andy Has knowledge of this information, he goes immediatly to warden Norton telling him the news. Norton automatically calls a bluff, and says he's a liar. It's quite obvious Norton doesn't give a rat's ass about Andy, his entire life, and any chance he may have to get out. This was a great section in the story because we finally find out that Andy did not committ the murders he is in Prison for. We also learn how foul Norton really is when he straight up screws Andy over.

Pg. #48-58

After Andy's deal with Hadley, he started moving up in the prison. The end of his three year harrassment with the sisters was when he was moved out of the laundry room, and into the library in which he worked as a librarian. Andy quickly started to improve the library, recieving funds that rose to $1000 a year. By 1951, Andy was doing the tax returns for half the employees at Shawshank, and in 1952 almost all. Andy soon became a very important, and valued person in the prison. As need for his services arose, the guards started to reward him with goodwill. The prison population grew slowly until it exploded in the 60's. Byron Hadley eventually died in 1961 of a heart attack. The poster of Rita Hayworth hung in Andy's cell until 1955. When she became tattered, she was replaced with Marilyn Monroe, then Jayne Mansfield, a year later Hazel Court hung in the same spot, then Raquel Welch from 1960 to 1966, and the last woman that ever hung in Andy's cell was Linda Ronstadt. Every time a poster would become tattered or torn, Andy would replace it and it was always in the same spot. A new warden finally came into place; Warden Norton. He was the foulest and most hypocritical man in the high position. He worked at Shawshank for a 16 long agonizing years. Some foreshadowing is used in the last page of this section when Stephen King hints a soon introductory of Tommy Williams, who sent Andy into the darkest, most depressed 10 months of his life. What could Tommy do that could negatively influenced Andy so much to actually sink him into a deep depression? I can't wait to find out!

Pg. #35-48

In pages 35-48, quite a lot happens. Firstly, we learn that although Andy stopped Bogs Diamond (the former top sister) from raping him and other people, the rest of the sisters still continued to mess with him. Fortunately, it was not as hard, or as often as it was. Andy also asked Red to get him a half-dozen rock blankets, and a poster of a felale celebrity. Andy had requested Rita Hayworth, and of course with Red's connections, he gave Andy both. Andy hung Rita hayworth in his prison cell, and used the rock blankets to polish several pieces of quartz which he soon gave to Red as a gift. Soon after, Red and Andy were chosen to work tarring the roof of the license-plate factory. As they, and several other men chosen for the job as well, were working on the roof, Andy overheard the guards that were supervising them work, talking. The warden at the time, whoose name was Byron Hadley, was talking about how his brother died, and that he willed a bunch of money to him, and that his wife thinks its hers too. Andy, being the "hot shot" banker he is, walked over to where they were sitting and explained to him that money is all his. As the other guards threaten to throw him off the roof if he didn't go back to his work, Hadley actually started to listen. They spoke some more about the matter and ended up sealing a deal in which Andy would fill out all of Hadley's IRS papers, in exchange for cold beers for him and his fellow workers. I like this part of the book, because the employees at Shawshank are starting to give Andy a little respect because of how smart he is, and how good he is with numbers. The part that really makes me want to keep reading, is that nobody really knows how smart and capable Andy is... yet.