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Paul Edgecomb is a warden in Block E of the state penitentiary in Cold Mountain. Block E is where prisoners on death row wait for their execution, the home of the electric chair nicknamed “Old Sparky”. The corridor that leads to the execution room is covered in green linoleum, that’s why the last way the death row inmates go is called the Green Mile. The Green Mile tells the memorable events that take place in the summer of 1932. When a towering black man named John Coffey is sentenced to death by the electric chair, the prison guards assume that he was as guilty as any death row prisoner.
But later, they start to believe that he is being punished for a crime that he did not commit. They learn that he was found holding two dead girls and thought to have killed them. The truth was that he was trying to use his god-given gift of healing to save the murdered children. Paul finds out about Coffey’s “gift” when he has a urinary infection, and John tells Paul that he can help. When John touches Paul a strong “jolt slammed through” him, and all John Coffey could say was “I helped it didn’t I boss”.
“Because of the gift that Coffey had the prison guards make it their mission to keep him from experiencing the cruel death which so many before had faced. While all of these events were happening Paul’s bosses’ wife was dying of a brain tumor, so naturally the men knew that John could help her. The men attempted to sneak Coffey out of the prison, and take him to their boss’s house. John got there and saved Melinda (the bosses’ wife). They had a plan for Coffey’s salvation all worked out. Surprisingly, when they asked Coffey if he wanted to escape, he replied “I’m rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss.”
“Mostly its the pain.” Shortly after Coffey saying this they executed him. This part of the book is a very good example of how the old universal truth of sacrifice that surfaces in this novel: John Coffey is making the ulti
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