2012年1月30日月曜日

I hope...

 Andy decided a jailbreak and revenge at last. It was the night when a thunderstorm was intense. The hole which for many years Andy had been continuing digging penetrated the building. Andy appeared outside the prison through there. In the time of the watchman of the prison guard, it has been already grasped. He nailed a stone over the pipe of the sewage pipe with a sound of the thunder and made a hole in a pipe. And he went in the sewage pipe and got away forth. It was distance of only several hundred meters, but I think that the pain of Andy which advanced by lying prone in filth was far beyond imagination.

 After having broken out of prison, Andy cleaned his appearance, and he went to the bank with an innocent look and received large sum of money. It was the money which a director of Shawshank Redemption embezzled. Because it was Andy to have managed, it was an easy thing for him including changing name. And afterwards Andy will be valid as Peter Stevens. In addition, Andy spread the information that the director embezzled in the media. Therefore the director committed suicide for fear of an investigation of the responsibility.

 Several years pass after Andy broke out of prison, I will be discharged from prison. However, I who spent it for many years at a prison was not able to follow a flow in the world. I remembered the place where liked Andy in such a case. And I decided to go there. Therefore I found a letter from Andy.

Dear Red,
 If you’re reading this, then you’re out. One way or another, you’re out. And if you’re followed along this far, you might be willing to come a little further. I think you remember the name of the town, don’t you? I could use a good man to help me get my project on wheels.
 Meantime, have a drink on me ?and do think it over. I will be keeping on the eye out for you. Remember that hope is a thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you, and finds you well.
                                                                                     Your friend, Peter Stevens

When I read this letter, I made up my mind to go immediately to Andy. Sure I remember the name Zihuatanejo. A name like that is just too pretty to forget. I find I am excited, I think I it is the excitement that only a free, a free man starting a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.
 I hope Andy is down there.
 I hope I can make it across the border.
 I hope to see my friend and shake his hand.
 I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams.
 I hope.

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