When Heywood encounters The Count of Monte Cristo, he mispronounces Alexandre Dumas' last name as "Dumbass," and Andy tells him that the book is about a prison break. The scene shifts and we see the prison getting renovations, as Red explains in voiceover that Andy kept writing letters to the Senate twice a week until they began to send more money "just to shut him up." The men sort through books, and Andy tells them where to put them. After the guards have left, Red plays his harmonica quietly. We see a poster of Marilyn Monroe on Andy's cell wall, as the guards call for lights out. "I wonder where 10 years went," Andy says, commiserating, before handing him a gift, a harmonica. Outside, Red comments to Andy that he's been there for 30 years. They reject his plea for parole regardless. "Without a doubt," says Red, telling them that he is no longer a danger to society. Red appears before his parole officers, who note that he has served 30 years and ask him if he feels he has been rehabilitated. It's yours." Red is skeptical, and tells Andy that "hope is a dangerous thing," and can make a man go insane. Andy accounts for the importance of remembering music, saying that they ought not "forget that there are places in the world that aren't made out of stone, that there's a… there's something inside that they can't get to and they… they can't touch. He explains that he had the music in his head the whole time he was there and that got him through. When Andy returns to lunch with his friends, he tells them it was an easy two weeks. Hadley breaks the glass with his club and subdues Andy, and Andy is put in solitary confinement for two weeks as punishment. Angrily, he bangs on the window and orders Andy to turn the record off, but Andy just turns it up louder. Norton comes to the office where Andy is playing the record and tries to open it. Andy locks the prison guard, who has gone to the bathroom, in the bathroom while he plays the record, and the guard calls to be let out. He then connects it to the speakers in the prison and it plays throughout the facility. Hadley orders him to clear out the books, and Andy relishes the fact that his six years of letter writing have paid off.Īmong the books, Andy finds a record of the opera Le Nozze di Figaro and plays it. The scene shifts and Hadley brings Andy into a room where there is a stack of books and a letter outlining that the government has agreed to provide $200 to fund the prison library and has donated a number of used books to the cause. The men finish reading the letter, which ends with the suggestion that Brooks is going to hang himself. He packs up a bag, climbs up on a desk, carves "Brooks was here," then hangs himself. We then see him in the park feeding the birds, and tossing and turning in his sleep, disoriented. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry." We see him entering a halfway house where he is living, and working at his job bagging groceries. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere. We hear a letter from him to the inmates read in voiceover, "Dear fellas, I can't believe how fast things move in the outside. He leaves the prison with a small suitcase and rides the bus back into society. We see Brooks talking to one of the crows he takes care of in the library of the prison, and setting it free. "These walls are funny," he says, "First you hate them, then you get used to them." Outside, the men discuss Brooks' state, and Red explains that he's been in the prison for 50 years-"this is all he knows!" Red goes on to explain that in jail, Brooks is an important and educated man, but in the outside world, he doesn't have a role or a purpose. Brooks begins sobbing and Heywood tells them that he doesn't understand what happened he just came to bid Brooks farewell, as Brooks' parole just came through. As Heywood's neck begins to bleed, Andy talks Brooks out of his act and Brooks begins to cry, releasing Heywood. The men try to calm him down as Heywood looks at them, his eyes filled with terror. One day, one of the inmates runs to get Andy and Red and brings them into the library, where Brooks is holding Heywood at knifepoint, threatening to kill him. Red also tells us that Andy does all of the guards' tax returns, adding, "year after that he did them all, including the warden's." All the while, he continues to write to the Senate, and even gets Red a job as his assistant. Andy sets to work writing to the Senate asking for books every week, but gets no answers.
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