As I have guessed, condemned E Block inmate John Coffey had been wrongly convicted for unspeakable crimes against the Deterick twins. What I found extremely curious was that Cold Mountain Penitentiary's warden, Hal Moores, could actually pick up a pen and sign away the form that would make Coffey's execution final after he had given his wife back the life that her brain tumor would have stolen. Could he honestly believe that a man gifted with such abilities would be capable of harming two young girls in such a way? All along, it had been another more likely person to murder the girls, whom John Coffey tried without success to help. In all honesty, when the true murderer was identified, it was not to my surprise. What knotted my stomach the most was that John Coffey, a truly good soul who only wanted to help, had died for another man's crime, and by those who knew the truth. I cannot understand how Paul just let it happen, regardless of Coffey's wishes. Towards the end, Stephen King, seems obsessed with death. He explains how each of the guards on E Block had died, along with Melinda Moores and Paul's own wife. He explains the horrible, but (lets be honest) deserved fate of Percy Wetmore and how he lived the rest of his empty life. Furthermore, he includes the death of poor little Mr. Jingles, whom Coffey had restored life to and also elongated it, as he had done with Paul, if he did not exactly know he was doing it. Lastly, Paul Edgecombe reflects on his own long and unnatural lifespan and, or so it seems to me, gives the reader a foreboding feeling of death with the last line of the novel, which is, undoubtedly the single most intriguing line that I have ever read: "We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."
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