Andy Dufresne Chapter Summary

Andy Dufresne is accused of murdering his wife and the guy she was sleeping with. He is sent to Shawshank State Penitentiary to serve his time. A couple of inmates made a bet on who would breakdown first out of the new group that just came in. That night there was a guy beaten to death because he started crying in his cell. Andy's first couple of days there he didn't talk to anyone and then you talk to Red. Andy wants Red to smuggle him in a rock hammer. Andy works in the laundry room and one day he is raped by the Sisters. This goes on for a couple of years then a job to work out side the gates on a roof opens up. Andy overhears Byron Hadley one of the officers complaining money he just inherited and it will be taxed and he won't get much.

Bogs is sent to a dark sell for two weeks. When he gets out and goes back to his cell he is beaten by the officer and is not able to walk. Bogs was sent to a different prison with less security and Andy never was raped again. Thr warden meets Andy and makes him an assist to Brooks. Andy's new job is actually to help out the staff at the prison with their financial decisions. Andy then starts doing tax returns and doing the prisons/wardens money. Andy wants to expand the library and get new books and the warden tells him to write letters to the state. So he decides to write one letter a

Andy helps him get graduate from high school. One day Tommy tells Red and Andy that an inmate at another prison told him he killed Andy's wife and the golfer. Andy goes to the warden with this information, but the warden refuses to help Andy and sends him to solitary when he mentions the money. The warden then has Tommy killed by taking him out by the gate and one of the guys shoots him in the back because they made it look like he was trying to escape. Andy refuses to continue with the wardens dirty money, but the warden them says he will take everything away from him. Andy tells Red about this place where there is a box buried under a rock by a tree and if he ever gets out that he will go and dig that up. Red promises Andy that he will go, but doesn't know if that will ever happen. And he starts acting weird and Red becomes worried and finds out that Andy asked for six feet of rope. The next day they find out that Andy didn't kill himself he escaped. The warden throws a rock at the poster on the wall and the rock goes right through it. They discovers a tunnel that Andy dug with his rock hammer over the last 19 years hidden by the poster. Andy escaped through the tunnel and used the prison's sewage pipe to reach