The Green Mile John Coffey

The Green Mile Set on Death Row in a prison in 1935 during the great depression, The Green Mile is the story of paul edgecomb the cell block head guard who develops a relationship with one inmate who has acquired a magical and wonderful gift that is both mysterious and miraculous his name is John Coffey. Even though john coffey is a man of massive size and proportion he seemed to have the witts and mental age of a child. This gift is what sparks the relationship between john and paul, this is because the officers think that john has a connection to god and jesus christ.
One of the main themes in “The Green Mile” is life and death. leaving the viewer to think about the fate of the human race if we kill each other just because we have an opinion about any one characteristic about a person or group of people then use a “god” to justify our actions when in truth we are all the same, there is no god and there is no excuses
for your actions. A further observation of the green mile shows that there is a larger meaning to the inmates dieing on the electric chair to which the officers named old sparky in order to shed light and humor to shuch dark and grim events. Quite often the color green symbolizes life and brown is death so the green color of the floor on the green mile symbolizes the life of the inmate walking down it but when they walk off the mile and get strapped into the chair which is colored a deep golden brown symbolizing death.
After finding out what john coffey could do and the special gift he had paul edgecomb tried his hardest it try to free the man who was wrongfully imprisoned because he tried to fix what another man had done and people made a rash decision without any context to the situation that had happened.
Paul edgecomb new that what he was trying to do was illegal but he still wanted to help an innocent man but when he confronted john coffey he refused because he saw the world as it truly was and thought it was far too of cruel a place to live any longer, and he knew the electric chair would kill him as time would not. Later on in the movie at elaine's funeral paul was speaking to the audience exclaiming how after the life he lived death was welcome now it isn't even imaginable that if a mouse could be as old as mr jingles was then how long could a human live, if mr jingles and paul only got a little bit of what was inside john coffey then how long has john coffey lived watching the people he loved passing away, feeling all of the hate and pain in the
world.