I never had time to shoot this section of the film, for which I'll always have mixed feelings. This was to symbolize that Jake was meant to be caged, just like Brooks. There was a scene in the script where Red finds Jake's carcass.He rocks the table, and it falls.Īfter his death, Andy starts to build the Brooks Hatlen Memorial Library. He ties a rope around the beam, and puts a noose around his neck. He writes a letter back to his friends at the prison, in which he expresses his difficulties adjusting to the outside world, including, living in constant fear, and longing to break his parole so they'd send him back home. He is astounded by the changes in the world since he was free, and complains that everyone got themselves in a hurry.īrooks commits suicide by hanging himself The prison doors open, and Brooks steps out and takes a bus to his new home. The gang discusses Brooks, and Red says that Brooks has been in prison so long that he is institutionalized.Īs he leaves, he lets Jake go free. They later learn that Brooks has been paroled, and that killing Heywood would have been his way to stay in prison. Andy manages to calm him down, but he is distraught. In 1955, Floyd tells Andy and Red that Brooks is holding a knife to Heywood's throat. When Andy talks to Brooks about getting funds for a better library from the prison, Brooks is incredulous and thinks it is not possible to do so. Brooks shows him around the dilapidated library, comprised of nothing more than some old books and magazines. Andy finds this surprising as Brooks has never had an assistant in his 37 years as a librarian.
In 1949, after Andy assisted Captain Hadley in avoiding paying his inheritance tax, Warden Norton appoints him the assistant librarian. He wheels it down to Andy, who discreetly takes it. After it is brought in through the laundry, Marcus places it into Brooks' rolling book cart, and pays him six cigarettes for postage. Later that year, Brooks was instrumental in getting Andy his Aljoreno. Brooks asked for it, and Andy is disturbed, thinking that Brooks means to eat it, but is relieved when he opens his coat and reveals his pet bird. Andy's first day at Shawshank, he sits next to Brooks, before noticing a maggot in his breakfast. Brooks found a crow hatchling who had "fallen out of a nest near the plate shop", and decided to care for the bird and name it sunia.
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