--------------- "The Shawshank Redemption" chapter 3 (11)--------------- but when I returned to my cell at night, I felt like a prisoner again, and the whole idea seemed absurd, and the idea of imagining that the blue sea and white sand beach was not only stupid, but cruel, and the thought dragged my brain like a fishhook.I just can't be like Andy, don't put on the invisible cloak of freedom.That night, after I fell asleep, I dreamed that there was a large smooth black glass stone in the middle of the pasture, and the stone looked like a blacksmith's anvil, and I was shaking the stone to take out the key buried underneath, but the stone was too big to move.Behind me, I could hear the dogs barking closer and closer.Now it's time to talk about jailbreaking.In this happy little family, from time to time someone tries to break from prison.But in Shawshank, if you're smart enough, don't break out of jail.The prison's searchlights shone all night like long white fingers, back and forth around the prison, with fields on three sides and foul-smelling swamps on the other.Every once in a while, prisoners would try to escape from prison over the wall, and the searchlights would always catch them; Otherwise, they will be spotted when they run out onto the road and give a thumbs up hoping for a ride.If a farmer in the countryside saw them walking in the fields, he would also call the prison to report it.Prisoners who want to escape over the wall are stupid.In this kind of rural place, a person in prison clothes looks as conspicuous as a cockroach on a wedding cake.Over the years, the most clever prison breaks have often been improvised.Some people get out of the bed in a pile of sheets.I had heard a lot of these cases when I first came in, but the prison authorities gradually stopped giving prisoners a chance.Norton's "Prison of Foreign Service" program also created some opportunities to escape.In most cases, prison escapes are improvised, such as throwing away blueberry digging tools and running into the bushes while a guard is drinking water next to a truck or a few guards are discussing a ball game.Part 4 of "The Shawshank Redemption" ***************I'm now at the Brewster Hotel, and I'm a fugitive once again - breaking the parole rules is my crime.But I guess no police would go to the trouble of setting up barricades to arrest such a prisoner – I wondered, what should I do now?
I had this manuscript in my hand, and a duffel bag, about the size of a doctor's medical bag, and all my possessions in it.I had nineteen fifty-dollar bills, four ten-dollar bills, one five-dollar bill, and three one-dollar bills, and some change.--------------- Chapter 4 (1) of "The Shawshank Redemption"--------------- In 1969, the plan of the foreign superintendent was to go to Shabatas to dig potatoes, and that day was November 3, and the work was almost finished.There was a guard named Henry Pug (who was no longer part of our happy family) sitting on the back fender of a potato wagon eating lunch, with his carbine in his lap, when a beautiful stag (they told me so, but sometimes these things add to the vinegar) slowly came out of the fog, and Pug chased after him, imagining what the spoils would look like in the recreation room of the house, only to have three prisoners in his guard slip away, two of whom were caught in the marble room in another town, The other one was never found.I think the most famous escaped prisoner is Sid Nidu.He escaped from prison in 1958, and I guess it's hard for anyone to surpass him in the future.As there will be a ball game at the prison on Saturday, Side was on the pitch at the demarcation line.As soon as three o'clock arrived, the whistle sounded, indicating that the guards were about to change shifts.A little further past the stadium is the parking lot, and the electric gates are located at opposite ends of the prison.As soon as three o'clock arrived, the gate opened, and the guards who came to change shifts mingled with the guards who were off duty, patted each other on the shoulder, greeted each other, compared the results of the bowling game, and joked.Sid, pushing his striper, walked out of the gate quietly, and the three-inch-wide white line was drawn all the way from home plate to the ditch next to the road, where they later found the striping machine overturned.Don't ask me how he got out, he was six feet two inches tall, dressed in prison clothes, and when he walked past with a marking machine, he would raise a shower of white ash and walk out of the gate in a grand manner.It can only be said that probably because it was a Friday afternoon, the guards who were about to leave work were too excited because they were about to leave work, and the guards who came to change shifts were too frustrated because they were going to change shifts......
Sid just took advantage of the gap and fled.As far as I know, Sid is still at large.Over the years, Andy and I used to joke about Sid's escape.Later, when we heard about Cooper, in November 1971, a man who called himself Cooper boarded a passenger plane from Portland to Seattle and threatened to blow it up and extort $200,000 from the airline.He received a ransom at the Seattle airport, and after the plane took off again, he escaped by parachuting and disappeared without a trace, becoming one of the great mysteries in American history.In the case of hijacking ransom, that is, the story of the hijacker who parachuted out of the back door of the plane, Andy insisted that the real name of the hijacker named Cooper must be Sid Nidu."
What a lucky turtle son," Andy said."
I wonder if his entire pocket is filled with white ash powder used to draw lines in order to get lucky."
But you should understand that Sid and the guy who escaped from the potato fields in Shabatas were just a handful of lucky ones who won the jackpot, as if all their luck had been gathered on them in an instant.A person like Andy may not be able to escape after ninety years.As you may recall, I mentioned a laundry foreman named Hanley Bacchus, who was brought to Shawshank in 1922 and died thirty-one years later in the prison's infirmary.He simply took it as a hobby, perhaps because he never dared to try it himself.He can tell you a hundred different methods of escaping, each of which is crazy and all Shawshank inmates have tried.My favorite is the story of Bifer Morrison, the guy who actually tried to build a glider in the basement of a license plate factory.He built the plane according to the instructions in the 1900 book The Modern Boy's Guide to Play and Adventure, and it never went unnoticed, only at last that he realized that the basement door was too small to move the damn glider out.Every time Han Li told this story, it caused a burst of laughter, and he knew one or two dozen equally funny stories.At one point, Han Li told me that during his time in prison, he was aware of more than 400 escape attempts.Before you nod your head and read on, stop and think about it.More than 400 jailbreak attempts!
This is equivalent to an average of 12.9 escape attempts per year during Hanley's time in Shawshank Prison.Of course, most prison escapes are casual, ending with some sneaky wretched wretch, foolish bastard being caught by the guards and yelling: "Where do you think you're going, bastard!"
”Han Li said that there were only about 60 carefully planned prison escapes, including the "Great Escape" in 1937, which happened a year before I was imprisoned.At that time, Shawshank was building a new administrative building, and fourteen prisoners took construction tools from the unlocked warehouse and escaped.The entire southern part of Maine was in a panic because of these 14 "tenacious criminals", but in fact, most of these 14 people were half frightened to death, and they didn't know where to flee at all, like a hare that straddled the road by mistake, and was unable to move when the headlights of the oncoming big truck shone on it.As a result, none of the fourteen prisoners actually escaped, and two were shot dead – but they died at the hands of civilians, not by police officers or prison guards, and none of them managed to escape.From the time I was imprisoned in 1938 to the day Andy first mentioned Syhuataniho to me, how many people had escaped from Shawshank?
Adding up what Han Li and I have heard, it's about ten.Only ten people escaped completely.I can't say for sure, but I suspect that at least five of the ten are currently serving their sentences in other prisons.Because a person is indeed conditioned by the prison environment, when you deprive someone of their liberty and teach them how to survive in prison, they seem to lose the ability to think in many ways, and they become like the hare I just mentioned, looking at the lights of the oncoming truck that is about to crash into it, but he freezes there and does not move.Many new prisoners tend to commit stupid crimes that will never succeed, why?
Because then he can go back to prison, to the place he knows and understands.Andy isn't that kind of person, but I am.The thought of looking out over the Pacific Ocean sounded great, but I was afraid that one day, when I did get there, the vastness of the Pacific Ocean would scare me half to death.--------------- Chapter 4 (2) of The Shawshank Redemption--------------- In short, since Andy talked about Mexico and Peter Stephen that day, I have come to believe that Andy has the idea of fleeing.I can only pray to God to be cautious, but I will not bet on him.Warden Norton pays special attention to his every move, and Andy is not an ordinary prisoner.Suffice it to say, they have an inseparable working relationship.Andy has a brain, but also a heart, and Norton is determined to use his mind while also breaking his heart.It's like there are some honest politicians out there that you can always buy, there are honest guards in the prisons, and if you know how to read people and have some money on hand to throw around, I guess you do have the possibility to buy off a couple of guards who deliberately let out water and look elsewhere to give you a chance to escape.It's not like no one has ever done something like this before, but Andy can't do it, because as I said, Norton is staring at him, and Andy knows it, and the jailers know it.As long as Norton continues to review the list of prisoners, no one will nominate Andy for the Prison program, and Andy, unlike Sid, will never be so casual about running away.If I were him, the key outside would keep me awake at night.Bucksden was less than thirty miles from Shawshank, but it was out of reach.I still think that finding a lawyer and asking for a new trial has the best chance of success, as long as it is out of Norton's grasp.Maybe they just gave Tommy a little more time off and shut him up, I'm not sure.Maybe those lawyers have great powers and can get Tommy to speak, without even much effort, because Tommy admires Andy.Every time I put these comments to Andy, he always smiled, his eyes drifted off into the distance, and his mouth said that he would think about it.It seems that he has a lot of things on his mind at the same time.Andy escaped from Shawshank in 1975, and he has never been caught, and I'm sure he will never be caught.In fact, I think Andy is long gone, and in 1976 in Chivataniho, Mexico, there was a guy named Peter Stephen who was running a small hotel.I'll tell you everything I know and what I guess, and that's all I can do, isn't it?
12 March 1975.When the guards opened the door to the cells in the fifth ward at half-past six in the morning, all the prisoners came out of their rooms and stood in the hallway, lined up in two columns, the doors slamming behind them.When they reached the gate of the Fifth District, there would be two guards standing at the door counting the heads, and after they had done the math, they would go to the restaurant to eat cereal, scrambled eggs, and greasy bacon.Until the number of heads is counted, everything is routine.There were supposed to be twenty-seven prisoners in the Fifth Ward cell, but there were only twenty-six that morning, so the guard went to report to the captain and told the Fifth Ward inmates to have breakfast first.The captain of the guard, named Richard Goya, is not a very bad person, and he arrives in the Fifth Ward cell with his assistant Dave Burke.Goya opened the door and walked with Burke into the hallway between the two rows of cells, batons and guns in hand.In situations like this, it is usually the case that someone gets sick in the middle of the night and is so sick that they don't have the strength to get out of the cell in the morning.Even rarer is that he has died of illness at all, or committed suicide.But this time there was a big mystery, they saw neither the sick nor the dead, and there was no one inside.There were fourteen cells in the Fifth Ward, seven on each side, all of which were neat and tidy — in Shawshank, the punishment for being too dirty was a ban on visitors—and all of them were empty.Gao Ya's first reaction was that the guards had miscalculated the number of people, or someone was playing a prank, so he told all the prisoners in District 5 to go back to their cells after breakfast.The prisoners were joking and running back happily, and anything that broke the mold was something new to them.The cell door opened again, and the prisoners walked in one by one, and the cell door was closed.The joking prisoner deliberately shouted: "I want to find a lawyer, I want to find a lawyer, how can you run the prison like a fucking prison!"
”Burke shouted, "Shut up, or I'll want you to look good." ”The man shouted, "I'll fuck your wife." ”Gao Ya said: "You all shut up, otherwise you will stay here all day today and will not be allowed to go out." ”He and Burke examined from room to room, counting them one by one, and didn't go far."
Who lives in this room?"
Gao Ya asked the guard on the night shift."
Andy Duverney."
The guard replied.Immediately, the whole routine was thrown out of order.There was an uproar in the prison.In the prison movies I've seen, every time someone escapes, the horn cries are heard, but in Shawshank, there was never such a thing.The first thing Gao Ya did was to contact the warden immediately, the second thing was to send someone to search the entire prison, and the third thing was to call the state police to warn that someone might have escaped.As is routine, standard operating procedures do not require them to inspect fugitives' cells, and therefore no one does.Why bother?
I saw with my own eyes that people were not inside.It was a small square room with iron bars on the windows and doors, as well as a set of sanitary equipment and an empty bed.There are also some beautiful stones on the windowsill.And, of course, that poster.At this time, Linda Lonsda's poster had been replaced, and the poster was attached to his bedside.For twenty-six years, posters have been plastered in the same location.But when someone looked behind the poster — it turned out to be Karma for Norton himself—it was a hell of a disappointment.It was already half past six that night when I found out that there was another article behind the poster, twelve hours before Andy was found missing, and twenty hours before he actually fled.Norton thundered.I later learned from old Chester that he was waxing the floor in the administration building that day, and that he didn't have to put his ear to the keyhole anymore on the day of the incident, because he could hear Norton's rant clearly.--------------- "The Shawshank Redemption" Chapter 4 (3) --------------- "What do you mean?"
What do you mean?
He's not in jail, which means you haven't found him?
Are you satisfied?
You'd better find him!
Because I'm going to get him!
Did you hear that?
I'm going to get him!
”Gao Ya muttered a few words."
Didn't it happen while you were on duty?
That's what you say, as far as I know, no one knows when he escaped, or how, or if he actually escaped.I don't care, I'll limit you to bring him back to my office by three o'clock this afternoon, or someone will hit the ground.I do what I say, and I always do what I say. ”Gao Ya didn't know what to say, which made Norton even more angry."
None?
Check this out!
Check this out!
Do you recognize this?
This is the roll call record of the 5th district last night, where every prisoner is in a cell.At nine o'clock last night, Duverni was still in his cell, and he couldn't have disappeared like that!
No way!
Go find him now!
”By three o'clock that afternoon, Andy was still on the missing list.A few hours later, Norton himself burst into the Fifth Ward cell.That day, all the prisoners of the Fifth Ward were locked up in their cells and questioned all day by the guards who looked at them in a panic.Our answer is the same: we see nothing, we hear nothing.As far as I know, everyone is telling the truth, and I know I'm not lying, let's just say that Andy did go into his cell when all the prisoners returned to his room last night, and he was still there when the lights went out an hour later.A clever ghost guessed that Andy might have gotten through the keyhole, and that led to four days of solitary confinement for him, and the guards were all tense.So Norton himself came to check on the room, glaring at us with his blue eyes, and under his gaze, the iron fence of the cage seemed to be about to burst into flames.There was suspicion in his eyes, and maybe he really thought we were all complicit.He walked into Andy's cell and looked around.The cell was still the same as when Andy left, the bedding on the bed didn't look like anyone had slept on, and the stones were ...... on the windowsill, but not all of them were there, and he took a few of his favorite stones with him."
Stones."
Norton smuggled, sweeping the stones off the windowsill with a clatter, and Gao Ya shrank aside, silent.Norton's gaze fell on Linda Lonsda's poster.Linda put her hands in her back pockets, smiled back, and wore a backless vest with a tanned skin.Norton, a Baptist, must have been angry when he saw this poster, and I saw him staring at the poster, remembering that Andy had said that he often felt as if he could step in it and be with the girl on the poster.He did, and seconds later, Norton found out.Norton tore off the poster."
Evil thing!"
He yelled.A hole appeared in the concrete wall behind the poster.Gao Ya refused to go in.Norton ordered him, so loud that the whole prison must have heard it clearly.But Gao Ya refused to go in."
Do you want to lose your job?"
Norton screamed, hysterical like a woman with menopausal craze.He had long lost his usual calm, his neck swelled crimson, and the two green tendons on his forehead were exposed, and he kept beating."
I do what I say, you ......
You damn Frenchman!
You have to go in today, or you won't want to eat this anymore, and you won't want to get a job in any New England prison in the future!"
”Gao Ya silently pulled out his pistol, pointed the handle of the gun at Norton, and handed the gun to him.He's had enough, it's been two hours past the end of work, and he's about to work three hours overtime.That night, Norton was furious, as if Andy's defection had finally revealed an irrational side of him that had been unknown for so long.Of course, I didn't see his irrational side, but I knew that night, as the twilight of winter grew dark, twenty-six long-time convicts who had gone through many changes in Shawshank had been listening, and we all knew that Norton was going through what the engineers called "breaking strain."