Edmond's Transformation

Well I am officially half way through the book "Count of Monte Cristo". We have nicknamed the book BAS (Big !@^%$# Book).

If you read my previous post you know about Edmond's predicament. He was in prison in isolated confinement. He was able to secretly dig a hole to his neighbors cell and they became very close friends.

It turns out his new friend was a scholar and had a map of a huge treasure. While they were together for the next few years his friend teaches him everything he knows, including many different languages and the sciences and the such.

His friend then becomes mortally ill and shares with him the map of the treasure. All the years the two friends had been working on a means of escape and of the night of his friends death he executes his plan and is successful.

Even though he doubts his friend's treasure map he uses it to find the treasure and is suddenly hugely rich. After decades in prison he now pursues his revenge on the people who falsely put him there. It is also at this point he becomes known to the world as the Count of Monte Cristo. It has been so long and he has changed so much in prison that know one realizes it is Edmond.

Stay tuned as I read the second half of this book...