Green Mile Essay 5

In this last part of the novel, Delacroix's execution finally takes place.  All protocols and procedures are followed with one exception: Percy leaves the sponge dry.  Believing that it would only hurt Delacroix a little, Percy calls for the second switch.  To his horror, Delacroix screams at the top of his lungs out of the excrutiating pain of hundreds of volts coursing through his body, his flesh burning.  Later, the E Block staff plots to bust John Coffey out, all for the purpose of healing the warden's wife and her inoperable tumor.  But before that, they drug the warden unconscious, and the plan follows.  When he heals the warden's wife, John Coffey, instead of releasing the swarm, holds it in, donning the tumor himself.  When the convoy returns, Percy is about on the Green Mile.  Percy is immediately restrained and put in the padded room to keep him quiet.  Upon being released, Percy passes by John Coffey, who grabs him and passes on the affliction of the tumor to him.  Percy now breaks out in an episode of psychosis, walking into the warden's office and fatally shoots the warden six times.  He then sits down, releases John Coffey's swarm, and leaves, never to be heard from again.  A shocking revelation is then made about John Coffey and the event that led to his conviction.  It turns out that John Coffey is innocent, and that the true culprit was Wild Bill Wharton, who was at the time a hired hand at the Deterick house.  The deputy involved in the pursuit knew Wharton was guilty, but arrested Coffey because he was black.  At last, the day comes.