雅思阅读：肖申克的救赎_雅思英语阅读

雅思阅读：肖申克的救赎

　　In 1965, a young prisoner named Tommy came to Shawshank. One day he happened to mention that some years ago, he had a cellmate who boasted about killing a man who was a pro golfer at the country club he worked at, along with his lover. The womans husband, a banker, had gone to prison for those murders. With this new information, Andy, full of hope, brought the matter to the wardens attention, expecting he could help him get another trial with Tommy as a witness. The reaction from Norton was the contrary of what Andy had hoped for. Fearing the end of the lucrative ill-gotten money that Andy was looking after for him, Norton had Tommy shot dead by Hadley under the guise of an escape attempt. Andy was sent to solitary confinement for 2 months to put him back in his place.

　　Afterwards, Andy returned to the usual daily life at Shawshank, a seemingly broken man. One day he laid his soul to Red, about how although he didnt kill his wife, his personality drove her away, which led to her death. He said if he ever got free, hed like to go to Zihuatanejo, a beach town on the Pacific coast of Mexico. He then told Red how he got engaged. He and his wife went up to a farm in Buxton, Maine, to a large oak tree at the end of a stone wall. The two made love under the tree, after which he proposed to her. He told Red that, if he should ever be paroled, he should look for that field, and that oak tree. There, under a large black volcanic rock that would look out of place, Andy had a box buried that he wanted Red to have. Andy refused to reveal what might be in that box.