Originally posted by Violent
Hay guys forgot i had a prject due tomorrow. So i kind of need help on it. I choose the movie the green mile. We have to explain how that movie portrays betrayal, love, and redemption which are also portrayed in the New Testament. If you have seen the movie and now any scenes that fit these themes, please describe the scene in pretty good detail so i can get an understanding for it. Please quote me, name the theme and scene in your responce. Ill add some ++ if your answer fits my requests.
In a
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You must login or register to view this content. inmates at Cold Mountain Penitentiary during the summer of 1935. The cell block Paul (
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One day, John Coffey (
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At the same time, Percy Wetmore (
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Shortly before Del's execution, a violent prisoner named William "Wild Bill" Wharton (
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You must login or register to view this content. state. Percy is then housed in the Briar Ridge Mental Hospital. In the wake of these events, Paul interrogates John, who says he "punished them bad men" and offers to show Paul what he saw. John takes Paul's hand stating that he has to give Paul "a part of himself" in order to see and imparts the visions of what he saw, of what really happened to the girls.
Paul asks John what he should do, if he should open the door and let John walk away. John tells him that he is ready to die because there is too much pain in the world, which he is aware of and sensitive to, stating that he is "rightly tired of the pain" and is ready to rest. For his last request on the night before his execution, John watches the film
Top Hat. When John is put in the electric chair, he asks Paul not to put the traditional black hood over his head because he is afraid of the dark. Paul agrees, shakes his hand, and John is executed.
As Paul finishes his story, he notes that he requested a transfer to a
You must login or register to view this content., where he spent the remainder of his career. Elaine questions his statement that he had a fully grown son at the time and Paul explains that he was 44 years old at the time of John's execution and that he is now 108 and still in excellent health. This is apparently a side effect of John giving a "part of himself" to Paul. Mr. Jingles, Del's mouse resurrected by John, is also still alive—but Paul believes his outliving all of his relatives and friends to be a punishment from
You must login or register to view this content. for having John executed. Paul explains he has deep thoughts about how "we each owe a death; there are no exceptions; but, Oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long." Paul is left wondering, if Mr. Jingles has remained alive for all of this time being but a mouse, how long will it be before his own death?
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