Evan Adams #7/13

"He was sixty-eight and arthritic when he tottered out of the main gate in his Polish suit and his French shoes, his parole papers in one hand and a Greyhound bus ticket in the other. He was crying when he left. Shawshank was his world. What lay beyond its walls was as terrible to Brooks as the Western Seas had been to superstitious fifteenth-century sailors."

This quote describes Mr. Brooks Hatlen, the man that worked the library before Andy took his place. Brooks murdered his family, however he was released on parole. The point of the passage describes that because Brooks was educated, he got one of the better jobs at Shawshank. Because of Andy's knowledge of finances, he received the spot after Brooks left. Another main point of this passage shows how many of the prisoners that have been inside of Shawshank for the majority of their lives don't know what to do with themselves when they get out. It shows how crazy the world is and how quickly the world changes in front of our eyes.

Book: King, Stephen. "The Shawshank Redemption." Different Seasons. New York: Viking, 1982. Print. (Page 39)
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