Andy is also allowed to stay alone in his cell instead of having a cellmate like most other prisoners. However, when Andy makes himself useful to the guards, they protect him from "The Sisters." One night, Bogs is found in his cell 'inexplicably' unconscious and severely beaten.
Andy approaches the guard, almost getting thrown off the roof in the process, and tells him that he can legally shelter the money from taxation by giving it to his wife.Ī gang of sexually aggressive prisoners called " The Sisters", led by Bogs Diamond, rapes any prisoner they feel they can handle, and Andy is no exception. One spring day, Andy and Red and some other prisoners are tarring a roof when Andy overhears a particularly nasty guard griping over the amount of tax he will have to pay on a sum of money bequeathed to him by a long-estranged brother. When taking the order, Red reflects that Andy is uncharacteristically excited about the poster, but does not think more of it at the time. One of the next items he orders from Red is a large poster of Rita Hayworth.
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At the prison, he meets Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, a prisoner who specializes in procuring items from the outside world.Īs a free man, Andy had been a rockhound, so he asks Red to get him a rock hammer, a tool he uses to shape the rocks he finds in the exercise yard into small sculptures. He is sent to Shawshank State Prison for life. King states that the story was inspired by various prison films he watched growing up.Īndy Dufresne, a banker from Maine, is arrested for the double murder of his philandering wife and her lover.
The novella's plotline is heavily based on God Sees the Truth, But Waits by Leo Tolstoy.
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