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Bogs Diamond, a “hulking” man, is a member of “the sisters,” a group of men in Shawshank prison who rape other inmates. Shortly after Andy Dufresne enters Shawshank, Bogs and some associates grope Andy in the showers; Andy hits Bog in the face and splits his lip. Later, Bogs and two friends gang-rape Andy. Then Bogs menaces Andy with a razor and demands oral sex. Andy successfully refuses, pointing out that if Bogs stabs Andy in the head, Andy will reflexively bite down on anything in his mouth. Though Bogs and his friends beat Andy up, Andy’s gutsy refusal gains him some respect and notoriety in Shawshank. Later, Bogs is found “badly beaten” in his cell. Red suspects that Andy, who smuggled money into Shawshank inside his rectum, bribed some guards to perform the beating. After the beating, Bogs leaves Andy alone.
Bogs Diamond Quotes in Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
The Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption quotes below are all either spoken by Bogs Diamond or refer to Bogs Diamond. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption Quotes
You may also have gotten the idea that I’m describing someone who’s more legend than man, and I would have to agree that there’s some truth to that. To us long-timers who knew Andy over a space of years, there was an element of fantasy to him, a sense, almost, of myth-magic, if you get what I mean. That story I passed on about Andy refusing to give Bogs Diamond a head-job is part of that myth, and how he kept on fighting the sisters is part of it, and how he got the library job is part of it, too.
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Bogs Diamond Character Timeline in Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
The timeline below shows where the character Bogs Diamond appears in Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
...Andy’s first week at Shawshank, the sisters grope him in the showers—and he hits one, Bogs Diamond, in the face. A correctional officer breaks up the fight. Later, four of Bogs’s...
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...realize: he’ll be raped no matter what, but he can choose whether to resist. When Bogs comes after Andy with two of his friends, Andy breaks one friend’s nose. All three...
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The summer after Andy enters Shawshank, Bogs is very violently beaten one night. The narrator speculates that Andy, who smuggled money into...
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