The green mile

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THE GREEN MILE

Plot
Main themes
Charachters
Stephen King’s novels
Electric Chair: how it works
Death Penalty: what you don’t know a...

The plot
The film is told in a flashback format and it begins with
Paul Edgecomb crying while he is watching top hat so ...

Percy Wetmore Instead of wetting the sponge used to
conduct electricity and make executions quick and
effective, he lea...

Wharton is responsible for the crime for which John was
convicted and sentenced to death.
John tells him that there is ...

Main themes
punishment of an innocent
his goodness
misjudgements (ex. John is condamned and Percy
despite he is mad he...

Paul Edgcomb

Death row supervisor

Percy
he is spoiled, sadic and evil
He wants to take part to John’s execution
He kills Delacroix in a brutal way

John Coffey
He is innocent
He has mystic powers
He wants to stop the sufferences of the world

The novel
Serial novel written by Stephen King
Originally released in six volumes

Differences between the film and the book
In the film the setting is changed from 1932 and 1935
In the book, the Green M...

Electric chair: how it works
It is used only in the United States
The convict is attached to the

chair with belts
Ar...

From 1980 the electric chair has been replaced with
the lethal injection, widely believed to be a more
“human method”

Death Penalty: what you don’t
know about to convict an innocent person
There is a high risk it.
Nobody believes that an ...

Quotations

How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it
does, we're not ready to do away with the death
penalty. Stop think...

Created by:
Corsunov Julia
Pignat Marta
De Piero Lara
Pavan Sara

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