Green Mile Inhumane
The Green Mile One of King’s purposes in writing The Green Mile is to kindle the reader’s outrage at the inhumanity and capriciousness of the death penalty. The death penalty is one of the worst things that take place in today’s society. Many people are against the death penalty for various reasons. Some are against it because it violates Gods commandments, it costs a lot of money and just because it’s such a cruel punishment. Although it’s been around for as long as anyone can remember it still doesn’t seem to make it any more acceptable. Way back when we didn’t have the technology we have now they would go about killing the people on death row by hanging, drowning, burning and beating them to death. A
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Throughout the book Paul Edgecomb leads up to the events of the execution of John Coffey, one of the inmates. Paul Edgecomb is the head of death row at the state prison. He has been there for 78 executions. John Coffey is a 7 foot man that was blamed for the rape and murder of two little girls in the south, which took place in the 1930s. Paul consistently feels that Coffey is innocent because he is a quiet man, who is afraid of the dark. He happens to be the calmest prisoner the guards have ever seen. Coffey has the ability to heal and see people's thoughts or memories. At one point Coffey even heals Paul’s urinary infection. The Green Mile is called “The Green Mile” because the green linoleum tiles the prisoners walk on to get to the electric chair. I think the book points out racial issues in the society that affected Coffey’s life at the time. William Wharton is the one behind the crime for which John is convicted for. Wharton works on the farm where the two girls killed lived. He was the one that kidnapped them. He also killed 3 people during a holdup and then he killed a police officer while escaping. He attempted to kill a guard when he got to Cold Mountain but Paul stopped
Throughout the book Paul Edgecomb leads up to the events of the execution of John Coffey, one of the inmates. Paul Edgecomb is the head of death row at the state prison. He has been there for 78 executions. John Coffey is a 7 foot man that was blamed for the rape and murder of two little girls in the south, which took place in the 1930s. Paul consistently feels that Coffey is innocent because he is a quiet man, who is afraid of the dark. He happens to be the calmest prisoner the guards have ever seen. Coffey has the ability to heal and see people's thoughts or memories. At one point Coffey even heals Paul’s urinary infection. The Green Mile is called “The Green Mile” because the green linoleum tiles the prisoners walk on to get to the electric chair. I think the book points out racial issues in the society that affected Coffey’s life at the time. William Wharton is the one behind the crime for which John is convicted for. Wharton works on the farm where the two girls killed lived. He was the one that kidnapped them. He also killed 3 people during a holdup and then he killed a police officer while escaping. He attempted to kill a guard when he got to Cold Mountain but Paul stopped