The Green Mile: It's a Miracle and a Relic

Lyda 2022-06-13 09:03:47

I always felt like a very cold-blooded person-or a very weak person. I get chills and goosebumps (really) when I see tear-prone episodes in movies or books. One of the episodes that made me cry was the episode in Oliver Twist (book) where the old thief Fagan was taken to the dock. I can't stop crying over that old thief. The Green Mile will cry too, but there will be no sense of despair. Stephen King ended John Coffy's pain with death-the pain of perceiving the world's pain. Dickens showed the coldest part of human nature-hatred, the cold without mercy....

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The Green Mile quotes

  • William 'Wild Bill' Wharton: [about to pass out from drugs] I don't see why white man has to sit in a nigger electric chair. White man should have his own damn electric chair.

  • Paul Edgecomb: [Dean is in tears as he kneels to strap John Coffey to the electric chair] Wipe your face before you get up, Dean.