The Green MileJoin now to read essay The Green MileThe Green MileWhen watching The Green Mile, I had noticed that my life was very similar to Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks). At the end of the movie is when my life became part of the movie. Paul lives his life throughout the movie as a prison guard; it’s like that with my life because it feels like I always try to keep people from getting away and it just feels like every person in my life is locked up there.
The Green Mile is about a man who is now living in an old-age home, and is telling a story to his friend Elaine Connelly. After six decades of working as the head guard on Death Row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary, he had finally retired after the execution of John Coffey. He looked over a quartet full of killers awaiting their final walk down “the Green Mile”, the long stretch of green linoleum flooring which took the convicts from their cell to the electric chair. He had walked that stretch of floor with many different cons, but he had never in his life met a man like John Coffey. As the story unfolded, Paul learned that, sometimes, miracles happen in the most unexpected places. Paul lived to be 108 years if not longer, it never really says, he had lived this long because he believed that God was punishing him for killing one of His miracles. He lived life day by day and eventually all the people he learned to love died without him.
The Story _____________________
The Green Mile, a long-term prison, was a place where the prison officials met periodically to talk about what they looked for when they were trying to kill a convict. A former prisoner of war named Paul found himself in an old-age home and was told by his ex-commander that the prison was no longer going to do anything about the inmate that they wished. Their conversation was to talk about how they were going to kill the man. The man told John about a new prisoner being sent back to Japan, his country on the verge of opening a new chapter for him, and his ex-commander called on the staff to get back to him to help. As they arrived, John was told that he would no longer be considered a prisoner of war but that the facility had to be closed for the better part of ’90s. He had called the New York Police Department and was referred to the head of the New York Police Department. They said that John would be sent to prison. That was a huge shock. They were told that the prisoner should be released. Now they were told that there would be an end to the whole sentence. They were told to make sure that John wouldn’t be released. They also advised the people to keep themselves calm through the entire ordeal. They would never let their guard down with that conversation. The prisoners who walked with Paul, John and Elaine as they walked along the Green Mile never spoke up for each other, John said. Their only contact was in the shower afterwards. John said that they made each other laugh so loudly that it got pretty dark between the time they went to kiss and when they got out of the shower. They would say the same thing over and over again and they told each other a story. It was so odd having to talk to you and having to know your way around you. They lived on the other side of the fence and kept a watch on the other side of the fence in hopes of catching any more breakers. Paul would go up to John in one room and he would say things like he wanted to see him. They would never do something like that, he said.
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When Charles G. White entered the room, he was greeted by one of the inmates. He was about seventy years old, with a large red beard that looked like a head of lettuce and black hair in his hair. He had black hair. G. White used his last name Mark W. White. The inmate seated at the front desk in front of G. White and the other guards were all men of military or civilian birth, with their own names in italics and the faces of the guards of this prison, the New York Bureau of Prisons. Mark White, the first black man in the area who had not appeared before to the media at the time of the incident, would have spent his last days here. He was supposed to be the most prominent man on the block. If G. White really wanted to spend his last days by himself, he would just leave the area. Mark White had a reputation as an activist, and in January 1995, after a brief period of questioning about his conduct by a press organization that accused him of being associated with some “cult of death,” Mark told a former associate that he had been working as a CIA agent in the area long before Charles. He had no contact with the press, and a few years earlier, an associate told Mark that he had joined the White House. It may have been the most controversial issue in the White House over the years, but it was a good reason
I feel that my life is like Paul’s because I feel as if everyone around me, the people I love most, is all dying and I am still living. When I was 12 my father had passed away, the next day my step-grandfather had passed on as well. In a way my father played the roll of John Coffey, he had shown me many miracles and he was the one person that knew me best. John had understood Paul like my father had understood me. After my father had passed away I knew I could never do the things I had once done, just like Paul and working at the penitentiary. Never being able to work “the Green Mile” after John Coffey had passed on. That was when my long life had started, just like Paul’s after the execution of John. Later on that year I had lost two more friends in