Central Characters: Paul Edgecombe, probably over 100, narrator, was the head of E block (death row) at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Paul faces an internal struggle between what his job wants him to do and what he sometimes knows is the "right" thing. Kind and gentle, he recounts this episode of his life from Georgia Pines, his retirement home. John Coffey is a huge, muscular black man but is very slow in the mental sense, brought into a situation where death surrounds him, yet he has the power to heal by his own touch.

Other Characters: Dean Stanton, Harry Terwilliger, Brutus Howell, and Percy Wetmore were all guards on E block. Percy was the most significant; he was a banty-rooster sort of guy. He liked to pick fights. He represented the fears of Paul Edgecombe. Though it is

Symbols: Mr. Jingles, Delacroix's mouse, was symbolic of everything good on the Green Mile. He was symbolic of the only joy that E block held. The mouse brought compassion to all the guards except for Percy Wetmore, who tried to kill the "rodent". The Green Mile symbolized our journey through life, and the electric chair symbolized its end. The "bugs" that came out of Coffey's mouth following the healings were symbolic of the sickness leaving. He inhaled the sickness or ailment of each person (and the mouse) that he healed into himself. The bugs leaving his mouth signified that the sickness was cured, and that he had indeed "helped".

Evaluation: Paul so perfectly put into words his own life, and even more so his burden of living. Paul is really the tragic character of the story. Paul is probably over 100 years old, and has come to the point where he doesn't want to live any longer. Where John Coffey was able to die when he came to the conclusion that the world didn't want him, Paul is trapped in a body that seems to fend off almost every illness due to Coffey's healing Paul's urinary tract infection. He has seen everyone close to him die, worst of all surviving a bus crash that took his beloved wife, while barely injuring him. The last part of the journey through Paul's life explains the hardships he has faced, and how he now wishes for death much like Coffey did. He learns that he

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Approximate Word count = 946
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)