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

　　One day Andy asked for rope, leading Red and his buddies to suspect he was going to commit suicide. At the end of the day, Norton asked Andy to shine his shoes for him and put his suit in for dry-cleaning before retiring for the night.

　　The following morning, Andy was not accounted for as usual from his cell. At the same time, Norton became alarmed when he found out Andys shoes were in his shoebox instead of his own. He rushed to Andys cell and demanded an explaination. Hadley brought in Red, but Red knew nothing of Andys plans either. Getting paranoid, Norton started throwing rocks at everyone. But when he threw it at Andys poster of Raquel Welch , the rock went right through and into the wall. Behind that poster was a tunnel big enough for a man to crawl through.

　　The previous night, it was storming. Andy wore Nortons shoes to his cell, figuring nobody would notice. He packed some papers and Nortons clothes into a plastic bag, tied it to himself with some rope, and escaped through his hole. He got down to a sewer main. Using a rock, he hit it in time with the lightning strikes and eventually burst it. He crawled 500 yards through raw sewage to a nearby river. There, he washed off and changed into the wardens clothes. All the authorities found were his prison uniform, a used bar of soap and one of his rock hammers beaten down to nearly nothing.

　　That morning, Andy walked into the Maine National Bank in Portland, where he had put Warden Nortons money. Using his assumed identity as Randall Stephens, and with all the necessary documentation, he walked out with a cashiers check. Before he left, he asked them to drop a package in the mail. He gathered up over $370,000 from a dozen area banks. As for the package, it was Warden Nortons books...and they went right to the Portland Daily Bugle newspaper.