"The Green Mile" Discussion 2

This section of our read get more detailed about a few of the prisoners. The story starts with Bitterbuck or "The Chief". He is in prison for killing a man by crushing a man's head with a cement block over a pair of boots. He has a playful personalty during one of the trial run of his walk to "Old Sparky", the guards find it humorous. Bitterbuck's daughter comes and witness the death of her father. Percy is disrespectful to the dead body of Bitterbuck. Delacroix is the next prisoner that the story tells us about. On his first day he is badly beaten by Percy. He becomes cautions of Percy from that point on, although Percy befriends him, he never truly trust him again. He becomes friends with a mouse named Mr. Jingles. He teaches Mr. Jungles a few tricks. He buy a match box from "The Chief" with the help of the guards for Mr. Jingles. Percy gets cotton so that Delacroix can put it in the box for Mr. Jingles to sleep in. He and Mr. Jingles eat peppermint candy that an aunt of Delacroix sends him. Paul is still suffering urinary infection and is thinking about going to the doctor. Warden Moores learns that his wife has a tumor that can't be operated on because of the location of it. The doctor only give her till Christmas to live and Moores is very upset by the news he hasn't shared with his wife. The day that Wharton comes to E block is a bad day for Paul. He catches Dean off guard and is able to start choking Dean, Paul comes in to see what's going on, but it at a loss of what to do with the situation. The story is back tracking and giving us a chance to better understand the prisoner from the beginning to the end of their time on E Block. The character are the same at this point. I think that the guards and the prisoner have problems communicating and are scared to open up some of those doors between them.