How did Andy make the tunnel with such a small hammer?
How did Andy make such a large tunnel with such a little hammer?
Please help explain because I am confused. The tunnel is so big and the hammer is so small!
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It was not a one night job. Andy escaped from Shawshank Prison. He had spent 19 years tunneling through the wall of his cell with his Rock Hammer.
How did Andy make such a large tunnel with such a little hammer?
Well the walls were soft and not reinforced or concertized and rock hammer worn out by the end.
As Andy would say to Red Geology is the study of pressure and time. It took him 19 years to dig through.
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How did Andy dig the tunnel in Shawshank Redemption?
Andy Dufresne in Shawshank Redemption is digging the tunnel to escape through the wall of his cell. He digs slowly and desperses the excavated material in the prison yard so that it doesn't accumulate in the cell.What does Andy do with the rock hammer?
Red figures that Andy slowly and systematically used the rock hammer and polishing cloths every night for nearly twenty years to carve through the wall.How did Andy get the rock hammer?
Though, this is never explained in the movie, but it is in the novel Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption. According to the novel, Andy smuggled five hundred dollars with him when he was imprisoned. The conversation between Andy and Red when Andy required a rock hammer.Who dug the tunnel in Shawshank Redemption?
However, over time, a possible plot hole emerged: how was Andy able to dig a ten-feet long tunnel without anybody at the prison ever hearing him do so?Andy gets a Rock Hammer!!!
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Answer 2
Time.
As symbolized by the changing faces of the women on the poster covering the hole, from Rita Hayworth to Raquel Welch, Andy had many years in which to slowly carve his tunnel and carry out the debris.
Answer 3
Andy used the hammer like a chisel, slowly carving his way through the wall over many years. in the scene that and is carving his name into the wall, we can see that the wall is quite soft, and easily carved.
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