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A man disappeared from a locked room.
Twenty years before, Andy was a banker.
He was thirty years old. He had a quiet life.
He worked with numbers all day. The work was boring. The numbers were always the same.
His life was a quiet circle. He lived in a nice house, but his life was not happy.
His wife was distant. Her eyes were often sad.
Then, Andy learned her secret. She had another man, a secret friend.
Andy saw them together one time. He did not make a sound.
He just watched from his car. A cold anger grew in his heart.
One night, he sat in his car near that friend’s house.
He held a gun. The metal was cold in his hand.
He drank a strong drink. He thought, “l will stop this pain. I will end it now.”
He got out of the car. The night air was cold.
Each step was heavy. He saw the house and the window with the light.
But he stopped. He looked at the gun in his hand.
His own face looked back at him from the shiny metal.
He thought, “This is not me. ” His anger was gone.
Only a deep sadness was left. He walked to a small river.
He threw the gun into the dark water.
It made a small sound. Then it was gone.
Andy went home. He thought the problem was over.
But a new, terrible problem started.
The next day, police cars came to his house.
A policeman spoke. Andy’s wife was dead. Her secret friend was also dead.
Someone killed them in the night. The police found empty bullet shells near the house.
The shells matched Andy’s type of gun. The police asked Andy many questions.
Their questions were sharp and fast. Andy told them about the river.
He told them about his gun. The police looked in the river. But they did not find the gun.
In court, Andy felt very alone. The lawyer for the other side was a loud man.
He pointed his finger at Andy. He made Andy look like a monster.
The judge was an old man with a tired face.
He listened to the loud lawyer. He believed the lawyer’s story.
He looked at Andy. He said, “You get two lives in prison.”
Andy’s world went dark. He was innocent.
But his words were whispers in a storm. No one believed him.
A big, grey bus took Andy to Shawshank prison. The bus smelled of sweat and fear.
The prison was old and dark. The walls were very high.
Andy looked at the walls. He felt like a small insect.
Other new prisoners were on the bus. They were all scared.
Red was a prisoner at Shawshank. He was in the prison for twenty years.
He was an important man. He could get things for other prisoners.
Red and his friends stood in the yard. They watched the new men get off the bus.
They always made bets on the new men. Red looked at them.
He thought, “Which man will cry first tonight?” His eyes moved across the new faces.
Then his eyes stopped on Andy. Andy was quiet and thin.
He looked weak. Red said, “l bet on that tall one.” He bet that Andy would cry.
The Warden of Shawshank was a man named Norton. He carried the Bible everywhere.
He spoke about God and forgiveness. But his heart was not good. He had many secrets.
The captain of the guards was a tall, violent man. He enjoyed the sound of hitting people.
That first night was long and loud. The old prisoners shouted from their cells.
A fat new prisoner started to cry. He cried for his mother. His crying was loud in the darkness.
The guards came. The captain pulled the fat man from his cell. The sounds of the beating were heavy.
The captain hit him again and again. The fat man’s cries stopped. He died that night.
The prison doctor wrote “accident” on the paper.
Andy was in his cell. He heard the shouts and the crying.
The terrible sounds of the beating also filled the air. But his face was a stone.
Andy did not make a single sound. He just stared into the darkness.
Red and his friends listened all night. They did not hear a sound from Andy’s cell.
Red lost his bet. He understood something.
Andy was not weak. He was strong in a very quiet way.
The first months were hard. The prison was a loud, dangerous place.
But Andy made a quiet world for himself. He did not talk to anyone.
In the yard, he walked alone. At the table, he ate alone.
He also worked alone in the laundry. The man was a ghost in the prison.
After two months, Andy went to Red. Red was in the yard with his friends.
Andy walked to him. His voice was quiet. He wanted a rock hammer.
Red was surprised. He looked at Andy. He thought, “A rock hammer? He wants to escape.”
This was a dangerous request. Red looked at Andy’s face. Andy smiled a very small smile.
He said, “l like rocks. I find interesting rocks in the yard. I want to make small statues.”
Red thought about it. He looked at the thick prison walls.
Red thought, “lt will take a man six hundred years to escape with this.”
He decided to trust Andy. He agreed to get the hammer.
Life in Shawshank was dangerous.
There was a group of men. They called themselves The Sisters.
Their leader was a cruel man. This group liked to hurt new prisoners.
They thought Andy was weak, so they waited for him in the prison movie room.
The leader smiled. “We are going to be good friends” , he said.
Andy’s heart beat fast. He could feel the cold floor. But he said, “No. We are not.”
Andy fought them again and again. He never gave up. His body was often covered in cuts.
But true change did not come from his fists. It came from his mind.
One spring day, the prison needed men for a job. The job was on the roof of a factory.
Red was smart. He knew how to talk to the guards.
He got his friends on the job. Andy was with them.
The men put black, sticky stuff on the roof.
Andy heard the guards talking. The captain had a problem.
His brother died. He got money from his family. It was thirty-five thousand dollars.
But the government wanted a big part of it. This was the tax.
The captain was very angry about this tax.
Andy was a banker. His work was with money and taxes.
He stopped working and walked to the captain.
The other prisoners stopped. They were scared.
They thought, “The captain will kill him. He will push him from the roof.”
Andy spoke. His voice was calm. “Do you trust your wife?” he asked.
The captain was very angry. He grabbed Andy’s shirt.
He held Andy over the edge of the roof. Andy was not scared. He did not look down.
He looked at the captain’s eyes. He spoke fast. He told the captain about a special tax rule.
The captain could give the money to his wife. It was a one-time gift.
There was no tax on the gift. The captain could keep all the money.
The captain listened. He did not understand all the words.
But he understood “no tax”. He pulled Andy back onto the roof. He put him down.
Andy said, “l can help you. I can do the paperwork. It will not cost much.” He paused.
His voice was very quiet. “l want three beers for each of my friends here.”
The captain agreed. An hour later, the prisoners sat on the hot roof.
They did not work. They drank cold beer from brown bottles.
For a short time, they felt like free men.
Red looked at Andy. Andy did not drink his beer. He just sat and smiled a little.
He gave his friends a piece of freedom. And so, he got protection.
The captain beat the leader of The Sisters very badly. The Sisters never touched Andy again.
After that day, Andy’s life changed.
The guards knew he was useful. Soon, the Warden knew he was useful.
Warden Norton started a new plan. He called it “Inside-Out”.
He used prisoners for work outside the prison.
Local companies paid the Warden money to get the contracts.
The Warden got very rich. But the money was dirty. It was illegal.
The Warden needed a clean place for it.
Andy was his solution. Andy became the Warden’s private banker.
He worked in the Warden’s office. He cleaned all the dirty money.
He created a fake person. The persons name was Peter Stevens.
This fake person had bank accounts. But he only existed on paper.
All the Warden’s dirty money went to the bank accounts of Peter Stevens.
Andy was the only one who knew the secret. The Warden gave Andy a new job.
He worked in the prison library. It was a small, dark room in the old part of the prison.
An old prisoner named Brooks worked there. Brooks was in Shawshank for fifty years.
The prison was his only home. He was a kind old man.
He had a small bird, a crow. He kept it in his pocket.
Andy had an idea for a better library. He wanted to build a place of hope in the middle of Shawshank.
So he started to write letters. Week after week, a letter went out. For a long time, nothing came back.
His friends laughed at him. But Andy did not stop.
Then one day, a box came. It had a pile of old books and some used records.
The government wanted Andy to stop writing letters. The Warden told Andy to stop.
But Andy smiled. He said to Red, “Now l will write two letters a week.”
Andy looked in the box of records. He found a music record.
It was an opera by Mozart. Andy went into the Warden’s office. Andy locked the office door.
He put the record on the record player. Then, he turned on the prison’s big speakers.
Suddenly, beautiful music filled the air of Shawshank.
The prisoners in the yard stopped. The men in the workshops stopped.
The guards on the walls stopped. They all looked up. It was full of hope and pain and life.
For a moment, the grey walls of the prison disappeared. Every man was free.
The Warden ran to the office. He was furious. He shouted at Andy through the door.
“Turn it off!” he yelled. Andy looked at him. He smiled a real, wide smile.
Then he turned the music louder. The guards broke the glass on the door. They pulled Andy out.
The Warden sent Andy to a dark hole. He was there for two weeks.
Andy paid a price for that music. But Andy was calm.
He said, “The music was in here.” He pointed to his heart.
“They can’t take that away from you.
He talked about hope. Red did not like the word hope.
He thought, “Hope is a dangerous thingin here. It can make you crazy.”
One day, old Brooks got a letter. The letter said he was free.
But Brooks was not happy. He held the letter. His hands shook.
He was very scared. He was in prison for fifty years.
He did not know the world outside. He tried to hurt another prisoner with a knife.
He wanted to stay in Shawshank. But they made him leave.
He set his bird free. Brooks went to a small, cheap room in the city.
His new job was in a grocery store. The manager was always angry.
This life made Brooks feel like a lonely old man. He wrote a letter to his friends in Shawshank.
The letter said, “l am tired of being afraid all the time.”
One day, the old man stood on a chair. He wrote words on the wood beam on the ceiling.
The words were “Brooks was here”. Then he ended his life.
The story of Brooks made everyone sad. It showed them a terrible truth.
The prison walls were not just around them. The walls were inside them too.
The prison made them forget how to be free.
Years passed. Andy continued to build the library.
His letters worked. The state sent money every year.
The library became full of books and music.
Andy helped many prisoners get their high school diplomas.
He gave them a piece of hope.
One day, a new prisoner arrived.
His name was Tommy. This young man was funny.
He was not a bad person, just a stupid kid who stole things.
Andy was a good friend to him. Andy helped Tommy learn to read and write.
The boy wanted to pass his school exam.
One day, Tommy heard Andy’s story.
He heard about the man who killed Andy’s wife.
He told Andy and Red a story. In another prison, he knew a man. A real killer.
This man talked about killing a banker’s wife and her lover. The story was exactly like Andy’s story.
The man laughed about it. He said, “The banker went to prison for my crime.”
Andy’s heart beat fast. It was the truth. The truth could make him free.
He went to the Warden. He told him Tommy’s story. He was full of hope.
His eyes were bright. But the Warden did not smile. His face was a cold mask.
He did not want Andy to leave. Andy was too useful. The Warden refused to help.
He said Tommy was a liar. Andy got angry. He shouted at the Warden about the dirty money.
The Warden became very angry. He sent Andy to the dark hole for a month. A very long month.
While Andy was in the dark hole, the Warden talked to Tommy.
He took him outside at night. He asked Tommy if his story was true.
Tommy said yes. He would tell a judge. The Warden smiled a cold smile.
He gave a signal. The captain was on a tower with a rifle. He shot Tommy.
The Warden went to Andy’s dark cell. He told him Tommy was dead.
Andy’s hope was gone. The Warden said, “You will stay here. You will work for me.”
If Andy refused, the Warden would destroy the library. He would make Andy’s life a living hell.
The Warden thought he had won. But he did not understand. He had not broken Andy.
He had just shown him a new door. After another month, Andy came out. His appearance was different.
He seemed tired and broken. He talked to Red in the yard about a place in Mexico. Zihuatanejo.
Andy said he wanted to open a small hotel on the beach. He made Red a strange promise.
He said, “lf you get out, Red, find a special field near a town called Buxton. There is a long rock wall.
At the north end, there is a big oak tree. At the bottom of that wall, you will find something for you.”
His friends were worried. They thought Andy gave up. He asked a friend for a six-foot rope.
Red was scared. He thought, “A man can only take so much pain. I think Andy has had enough.”
That night, there was a big storm. Thunder was loud like cannons.
Red could not sleep. He was worried about his friend with the rope.
The next morning, at roll call, Andy’s cell was empty. The guards were angry.
The Warden came. He was furious. He walked into Andy’s cell.
“This is a conspiracy!” he shouted. He threw a rock at the poster.
The rock did not hit the wall. It went through the poster. There was a strange sound.
The Warden tore the poster from the wall. Behind it was a hole. A perfect, man-sized hole.
Andy was gone. The man did not disappear. He escaped.
For nearly twenty years, that small rock hammer was his only tool.
Every night, he dug a little bit. The dust and rocks went into his pockets.
Then, every day, he dropped the dust in the prison yard.
The big posters on his wall hid all his work. The night of the storm was the perfect time.
Andy put the Warden’s secret money book into a plastic bag.
He tied the bag to his leg and crawled through the hole.
A big sewer pipe was below. He broke it. The thunder covered the sound.
He crawled through five hundred yards of dirty water. He came out into a river.
He was free.
The next morning, Andy walked into a bank in the city.
But he was not Andy. He was Peter Stevens. He had all the right papers.
He took all of the Warden’s money from many banks.
Then, a package went to a big newspaper. The package had the Warden’s secret book.
It had all the proof of his crimes. The police came to Shawshank.
The captain of the guards was arrested. The Warden went to his office.
He opened his safe. He expected to find his secret book.
But the book was gone. Inside the safe was Andy’s old Bible.
The Warden opened it. There was a hole cut in the pages.
It was the shape of a rock hammer. On the first page, Andy wrote a note.
It said: “You were right. Freedom was inside.” The Warden heard the police at his door.
He knew his life was over. He took a gun from his desk. He made a final choice.
Soon, Red got a blank postcard. He knew it was from Andy. He smiled.
He was happy his friend was free. He looked at the high walls of Shawshank.
He thought, “Some birds are not meant to be caged. Their feathers are too bright.”
Years later, Red had a chance to be free. He was an old man now.
This time, his words were different. He did not say what the men wanted to hear.
He spoke from his heart. He talked about the stupid young man he was.
He said he was sorry for his crime every single day. This time, they let him go. Red was free.
But like Brooks, he was scared and lonely in the new world.
He thought about breaking the law, just to go back to prison. Red stood at a crossroads.
One path was dark, like the path of Brooks. The other path led to a field, and a promise from a friend.
He had to make a choice. He took a bus. He found the long rock wall.
At the north end, a big oak tree stood. Under the tree, he found the special black rock.
A small tin box was under the rock. Inside the box was money. And there was a letter. It was from Andy.
The letter said, “Hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, And hope never dies.”
The letter asked Red to come to Zihuatanejo. Red sat on a bus. It was going south, to Mexico.
A new feeling was inside him. It was excitement. He hoped to see his friend.
A man worked on an old boat on a white beach. He looked up.
Another man walked across the sand toward him. It was Red. He wore an old hat.
He smiled a wide, happy smile. Andy saw him. He smiled too.
Two friends, together again, in a warm place with no memory.
They were finally free.
Words：
disappear /ˌdɪsəˈpɪər/ (動詞) 消失 看不見或找不到了
distant /ˈdɪstənt/ (形容詞) 疏遠的 情感上不親近的
metal /ˈmetl/ (名詞) 金屬 一種堅硬有光澤的材料
shiny /ˈʃaɪni/ (形容詞) 閃亮的 表面光滑發亮的
terrible /ˈterəbl/ (形容詞) 可怕的 非常糟糕或令人不快的
shell /ʃel/ (名詞) 彈殼 子彈發射後留下的外殼
sharp /ʃɑːrp/ (形容詞) 尖銳的 嚴厲且具穿透力的
court /kɔːrt/ (名詞) 法庭 審理案件裁決爭議之處
monster /ˈmɒnstər/ (名詞) 怪物 形容殘忍邪惡的人
prison /ˈprɪzn/ (名詞) 監獄 關押罪犯的地方
innocent /ˈɪnəsnt/ (形容詞) 無辜的 沒有犯罪或做錯事
whisper /ˈwɪspər/ (名詞) 耳語 低聲說的話語
sweat /swet/ (名詞) 汗水 從皮膚排出的鹽水液體
insect /ˈɪnsekt/ (名詞) 昆蟲 身體分節的有足小動物
bet /bet/ (名詞) 賭注 對不確定的結果下注
Warden /ˈwɔːrdn/ (名詞) 典獄長 監獄的最高管理者
Bible /ˈbaɪbl/ (名詞) 聖經 基督教的神聖經典
forgiveness /fərˈɡɪvnəs/ (名詞) 寬恕 原諒某人的過錯
captain /ˈkæptɪn/ (名詞) 警衛隊長 警衛的領導者
violent /ˈvaɪələnt/ (形容詞) 暴力的 傾向使用身體力量傷人
beating /ˈbiːtɪŋ/ (名詞) 毆打 反覆擊打的行為
stare /ster/ (動詞) 凝視 長時間睜大眼睛看
dangerous /ˈdeɪndʒərəs/ (形容詞) 危險的 可能造成傷害或損害
laundry /ˈlɔːndri/ (名詞) 洗衣房 清洗衣物的地方
ghost /ɡoʊst/ (名詞) 鬼魂 形容人沒有存在感
hammer /ˈhæmər/ (名詞) 錘子 用來敲打東西的工具
escape /ɪˈskeɪp/ (動詞) 逃脫 從監禁或约束中逃離
statue /ˈstætʃuː/ (名詞) 雕像 用石頭或金屬製成的人像
cruel /ˈkruːəl/ (形容詞) 殘忍的 故意給他人造成痛苦
fist /fɪst/ (名詞) 拳頭 手指緊握成的狀態
factory /ˈfæktəri/ (名詞) 工廠 製造商品的建築物
sticky /ˈstɪki/ (形容詞) 黏的 容易附著在其他物體上
tax /tæks/ (名詞) 稅 政府徵收的款項
grab /ɡræb/ (動詞) 抓住 突然而粗暴地抓住
edge /edʒ/ (名詞) 邊緣 物體最外側的界線
paperwork /ˈpeɪpərwɜːrk/ (名詞) 文書工作 處理文件和表格的任務
protection /prəˈtekʃn/ (名詞) 保護 使某人或某物安全的行為
contract /ˈkɒntrækt/ (名詞) 合約 具法律約束力的協議
illegal /ɪˈliːɡl/ (形容詞) 非法的 法律所禁止的
solution /səˈluːʃn/ (名詞) 解決方案 解決問題的方法
fake /feɪk/ (形容詞) 假的 不是真實的，偽造的
exist /ɪɡˈzɪst/ (動詞) 存在 具有客觀現實或生命
library /ˈlaɪbreri/ (名詞) 圖書館 收藏書籍供人借閱之處
crow /kroʊ/ (名詞) 烏鴉 一種黑色的大鳥
record /ˈrekərd/ (名詞) 唱片 用於播放音樂的圓盤
opera /ˈɒpərə/ (名詞) 歌劇 以歌唱為主的戲劇形式
speaker /ˈspiːkər/ (名詞) 揚聲器 將電信號轉為聲音的設備
furious /ˈfjʊəriəs/ (形容詞) 狂怒的 極度憤怒的
hole /hoʊl/ (名詞) 禁閉室 用於單獨監禁的牢房
shake /ʃeɪk/ (動詞) 顫抖 不由自主地快速搖動
grocery /ˈɡroʊsəri/ (名詞) 食品雜貨店 售賣食品和家庭用品的商店
beam /biːm/ (名詞) 橫梁 支撐屋頂或樓板的長木條
diploma /dɪˈploʊmə/ (名詞) 文憑 完成學業的證明文件
steal /stiːl/ (動詞) 偷竊 未經許可拿走他人財物
crime /kraɪm/ (名詞) 罪行 違反法律的行為
mask /mæsk/ (名詞) 面具 用來掩蓋真實情感的表情
refuse /rɪˈfjuːz/ (動詞) 拒絕 表示不願意做某事
destroy /dɪˈstrɔɪ/ (動詞) 摧毀 將某物徹底破壞
hell /hel/ (名詞) 地獄 極度痛苦或折磨的境地
Zihuatanejo /ˌsiːwɑːtəˈneɪhoʊ/ (名詞) 齊瓦塔內霍 墨西哥的一個沿海城市
oak /oʊk/ (名詞) 橡樹 一種高大強壯的樹木
rope /roʊp/ (名詞) 繩子 由纖維捻成的粗線
thunder /ˈθʌndər/ (名詞) 雷聲 風暴中伴隨閃電的巨響
roll call /ˈroʊl kɔːl/ (名詞) 點名 檢查人員是否到場的程序
conspiracy /kənˈspɪrəsi/ (名詞) 陰謀 秘密策劃的非法行為
sewer /ˈsuːər/ (名詞) 下水道 排放廢水的地下管道
crawl /krɔːl/ (動詞) 爬行 用手和膝蓋在地上移動
package /ˈpækɪdʒ/ (名詞) 包裹 用紙或盒子包裝的物品
arrest /əˈrest/ (動詞) 逮捕 依法拘捕某人
safe /seɪf/ (名詞) 保險箱 用於存放貴重物品的金屬箱
postcard /ˈpoʊstkɑːrd/ (名詞) 明信片 不需信封郵寄的卡片
cage /keɪdʒ/ (動詞) 囚禁 把…關在籠子裡
feather /ˈfeðər/ (名詞) 羽毛 鳥類身上的輕柔覆蓋物
crossroads /ˈkrɔːsroʊdz/ (名詞) 十字路口 人生中做決定的重要時刻
tin /tɪn/ (名詞) 錫 一種銀白色金屬元素
excitement /ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/ (名詞) 興奮 感到非常高興和熱切
memory /ˈmeməri/ (名詞) 回憶 過去事件的記憶