How was Andy Dufresne able to dig the tunnel for many years without being discovered?
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. The tunnel entry is covered with a poster.
How come noone ever looks under the poster and the tunnel is not discovered for so many years?
Best Answer
Warden Norton sees the poster when he checks his cell. He says;
I can't say I approve of this but I suppose exceptions can be made.
Because he wants to use Andy with his money laundering business and he doesn't want to disturb him very much. Also he wants Andy to think of himself as a privileged prisoner. If normal prisoner hung this poster, the Warden would probably have taken it down.
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His self-imposed goal: "Starting in the second year of his life sentence, it took Andy Dufresne nearly 17 years to tunnel his way to freedom.How long did it take Andy Dufresne to dig out of Shawshank?
The 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption told the story of wrongly convicted Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) who, after being accused of the murder of his wife and her lover, tunneled his way out of prison over the course of 17 years.How was Andy Dufresne able to survive?
Andy kept his mind occupied and looked for things he can do while he was inside. He read books and played chess and kept a routine going. At one point, in trying to sculpt chess pieces from rocks, he discovered the softness of cement used on the cell walls. That's how he came up of a plan to escape.How did Andy Dufresne not get caught?
He was able to not get caught because only he and the warden knew of the network of accounts, only he knew he stole all the needed documentation, at that time, and no one would expect a convict to do anything but run away. He had the element of surprise.Shawshank Redemption - Andy Escapes
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Answer 2
No one looks under the poster because for many years Andy was a model prisoner & he was helping out the warden with his shady schemes. He also endeared himself to the guards too, and he never gave any indication that he wanted to break out of prison, so he was left alone and neither the tunnel nor his hammer was ever discovered.
Answer 3
These are multiple ways that Andy hid his escape. The first and possibly the most obvious was the poster he used to hide the hole, as illustrated by Soner and Paul.
However, there are a few other reasons why it went unnoticed. The first was that he did it very gradually over time. It took him years to make the hole. The second was that he was using the little rock hammer to slowly chisel away the hole, so he didnt' make a lot of noise or movements when he worked on the hole. The third was that he spread the dust in the yard, so there was no other physical evidence of him working on the hole.
So Andy went unnoticed because he took his time and played everything as safe as he could.
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