The Book the Green Mile affected me in a very awkward way. It was based in 1935 about a man, John Coffey, a large black man, condemned by his own words. This man though was no ordinary man. He was convicted for rape of two 9 year old girls. It immediately seemed that John Coffey was not a bad man at all. He had asked for the lights to be left on at night because he was afraid of the dark. At that moment I thought how this man could of ever of done such an act. Then I read on.
Before John Coffey was to be executed he showed Paul Edgecomb who really did the rape by using his special powers. It was not John Coffey but another man who was already in jail and to be executed. Paul could not stop the execution though. This part was quite interesting to me since this really shows how sometimes the easiest and simplest answer isn’t always right. As
o help the two girls and someone else had attacked the girls instead. So in a way this affects how I think about the American justice system from back then to now. Technology has gone a long way from then to now. We can scan for things nowadays.
Was that it I thought? I soon found out that John Coffey had powers that no ordinary man had, he could heal anything. The book also mentioned the fact that John Coffey had the initials of Jesus Christ which is very ironic and must symbolize that he was a blessing of god.
we see here for example the jury must not have even thought twice that John Coffey was trying t The Book the Green Mile affected me in a very awkward way. It was based in 1935 about a man, John Coffey, a large black man, condemned by his own words. This man though was no ordinary man. He was convicted for rape of two 9
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