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| "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption": How old was Red when he came to Shawshank? | Different Seasons
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20. Red is "the man who can get it for you." He was sent to prison for killing his wife. He took out an insurance policy on her, then fixed the brakes in her car. Unfortunately, she also stopped to pick up a neighbouring woman and her son. He was given three life sentences, to run consecutively.
Bank Vice-president. While Andy was serving his sentence, a man named Blatch told another prisoner that he had killed Andy's wife and her lover. He said Andy was a lawyer.
| How many years did Red serve at Shawshank before he was finally released? | Different Seasons
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38 years. "After thirty-eight years of routine hearings and routine details (in the course of those thirty-eight years, three lawyers died on me), my parole was finally granted. I suppose they decided that, at the age of fifty-eight, I was finally used up enough to be deemed safe."
Samuel Norton. Byron Hadley was the guard Andy advised about an inheritence, George Dunahay and Greg Stammas were wardens at Shawshank, but both were before Andy's escape.
| What is the name of the town in Mexico where Andy was going after he escaped? | Different Seasons
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Zihuatanejo. "Sure I remember the name. Zihuatanejo. A name like that is just too pretty to forget." Guadalajara has a population of 1,650,000, Ciudad Netzahualcoyotl 1,255,500, and Juarez 789,300. (Information from Atlapedia online)
| "Apt Pupil": What is the (fake) name of the man Todd Bowden discovers is a Nazi? | Different Seasons
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Arthur Denker. His real name is Kurt Dussander, and he was Unterkommandant at Auschwitz from June 1943 to June 1944, amongst other things.
| A character from another story in "Different Seasons" is briefly mentioned in "Apt Pupil", who is it? | Different Seasons
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Andy Dufresne - Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. "I live now on stock dividends. Stocks I picked up after the war under yet another name. Through a bank in the State of Maine, if you please. The banker who bought them for me went to jail for murdering his wife a year after I bought them...life is sometimes strange, boy, hein?" "Dufresne, his name was - I remember, because it sounds a little like mine. It seems he was not so smart at wife-killing as he was at picking growth stocks."
Dick and Monica. "His dad was an architectural engineer who made $40,000 a year.His mom was a housewife and a secretarial school graduate who typed manuscripts in her spare time."
Heart Attack. He has a heart attack while digging a grave in his basement for one of his victims.
| What is the name of the man Todd shoots at the end, who comes to see him at his house? | Different Seasons
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'Rubber' Ed French. 'Rubber' Ed French is the guidance counsellor at Todd's school. When Todd's grades start to slip, he has Dussander pretend to be his grandfather, and after it is revealed that Dussander was a war criminal, Ed puts two and two together, and goes to Todd's house to ask him about it.
| "The Body": What is the name of the story written by Gordon Lachance, originally published in "Greenspun Quarterly", that is featured in "The Body"? | Different Seasons
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Stud City. Gordie describes it in a fairly derogatory way. "It ought to have THIS IS A PRODUCT OF AN UNDERGRADUATE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP stamped on every page...because that's just what it was, at least up to a certain point."
Dennis. Denny died and was buried in a closed coffin with an American flag on it. He was ten years older than Gordie, so when he died "I was as sad for Denny's dying as I was when I heard on the radio that Dan Blocker had died. I'd seen them both about as frequently, and Denny never even got any re-runs."
| Gordie tells the boys a story about a boy named Davie Hogan who enters an eating competition. What do the contestants have to eat? | Different Seasons
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Pie. They used blueberry pies for the competition, and in a surprise (and disgusting) ending, Davie throws up over the audience. It is a very well written story, and if you haven't read it, you should. Even if you have, read it again!
| The dump-keeper, Milo Pressman, always had a particular dog at his heel. What was this dog's name? | Different Seasons
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Chopper. "Chopper was - at least until the Camber's dog Cujo went rabid twenty years later - the most feared and least seen dog in Castle Rock."
| "The Breathing Method": Who is the 'butler' at the Gentlemen's Club where this story is told? | Different Seasons
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Stevens. "I suppose Stevens might know how it all came to be – one thing I am sure of is that Stevens has been there from the first, no matter how long that may be....and I believe Stevens to be older than he looks. Much, much older."
| What is engraved on the stone over the fireplace at the Gentlemen's Club? | Different Seasons
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It is the tale, not he who tells it. There is no mantle above the fireplace, just a big stone arch with those words engraved on the keystone.
Emlyn McCarron. George Waterhouse is the man who invites David to the Gentlemen's Club, George Gregson and Harry Stein are two of the other 'members'.
Department Store. She was also enrolled in acting classes. She was homesick, and went out a couple of times with a young man in her acting class, and by the time she realised she didn't love him, she was pregnant. She told him, and he said he would do the 'decent thing'. " A week later he was gone from his lodgings, leaving no forwarding address." Page 526
December 24th. December 10th was her due date, but she didn't give birth until Christmas Eve, just past 6pm.
three dollars. The longer he couldn't find it, the more he said was in it. He was so obsessed he earned the nickname Penny Tessio from the whole business. Also, if he hadn't still been digging for those pennies, the gang would not have found out about the body in the first place.
3. Red was just trying to kill his high-maintenance wife to get away from her and her family, but she picked up her neighbor and neighbor's infant son before her tampered brakes went out.
he didn't. He did not kill her even though she did want a divorce and was cheating on him. He even thought it was partly his fault that she died because he wasn't a very good husband and may have driven her to another.
Brooksie. Brooksie killed himself shortly after leaving prison; he was too institutionalized. Hadley was the first guard Andy helped with his finances. Bogs was one of the sisters who had a thing for Andy. Mert was one of Hadley's guard cronies.
Mrs Upshaw. Mrs Upshaw was his fourth grade teacher and his mother was very pleased by this description of her bright son. She did use the description but she was not the first.
blue jay. It was Dussander who killed the cats and dogs. Todd ran over an injured blue jay with his bike, his first act of violence.
Jane Smith. It was not proper for women to have children out of wedlock and it was looked down upon so she gave an alias.
he disappeared after she told him. He was in her acting class; when she told him she was pregnant he told her he would do the decent thing. A week later he had disappeared without a forwarding address.
Yes. He did when he was stepping away from her body after the baby was delivered. The big surprise in the story was that she delivered the baby including breathing and pushing with her head severed from her body.
Hers is the first poster that Andy Dufresne asks for. This was a common poster that men asked Red to get them. The manner in which Andy acted while asking got Red intrigued and further interested in him.
Three life sentences. Red fixed the brakes on his wife's car with full intentions of killing her. He didn't know that she was going to pick up the neighbor and her baby on her way into town and all three perished in the crash.
red-headed and good-looking. To anyone who had seen the movie before reading this book, the description of Red was a surprise. He was played by Morgan Freeman in the movie, but in the book he is described as a white redhead who was good-looking and raised on the poor side of town. He "knocked up" a rich girl whose father allowed him to marry her. He soon grew bored with it all and decided to kill her in a way that would look an accident. It didn't work!
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