Essay 5 Ideas

For my essay 5 I want to write about Paul Edgecomb. He is such an interesting character in the green mile. He is able to look past John Coffey’s shell and see what he really is on the inside. He is the boss on the green mile, and has the ability to be a complete and total jerk to all the prisoners. I mean who are the prisoners going to complain too? They are on the Green Mile for a reason and I doubt that anyone would take action on their complaints. However, Paul goes out of his way to ensure that the prisoners are taken care of and are not treated badly despite the horrifying crimes that they have committed. Furthermore, Paul and the other guards risk their jobs and break the law to get John Coffey to see Melinda and have her healed. He risked everything to save his bosses wife. That compassion he has to do good is so deep and honest. Never the less, out of all the guards on the Green Mile he is the one who has personally electrocuted the most prisoners. Paul is only doing his job and granted these men are guilty criminals that have been sentenced to die, but it still takes a lot out of someone to be the one responsible for killing these criminals. I think there are several aspects to Paul Edgecomb and think he is a truly fascinating character.

John or Paul?

I haven’t deiced who I want to write my essay about. It would have to either be Paul Edgecomb or John Coffey. I believe they are both the best characters in The Green Mile and they both stand for something beyond a normal character. Paul Edgecomb is pretty much the peace keeper for the green mile. He is kind-hearted and does his job with good morals. He witnesses John Coffey’s miracles and finds a way to save the life of his boss’s wife because he thought she didn’t deserve to die the way she was. John Coffey seems to be a gentle giant who is scared of the dark and cries a lot. This may be because he has a kind heart just like Paul. He seems to be the incent person who was trying to do the right thing maybe by saving the girls but got judged wrongly thinking that he hurt the girls. I think writing about John would be something good but also writing about Paul would be good as well.

Coffey or Edgecomb?

Ideas for Essay 5

I think I will be writing my essay 5 character analysis on Lester Billings from Stephen Kings short story The Boogeyman because that story had the biggest effect on me. Haha it made me scared. But my real issue is why he couldn't get in there and save his children! I can't understand that. And wouldn't he have gotten the hint after the first child passed away? So anyways this is what I'll be writing about and I might to a compare and contrast essay but I'm not sure yet.

Essay #5- Paul

I decided to do my character analysis on Paul Edgecomb. I know that mostly everyone is going to pick that character, but probably because he is one of the main ones. I picked Paul because the way that his life was affected by John Coffey made the whole plot of the movie. I chose Paul because it is easy to tell how he is most affected when Coffey shows up to the mile. Paul is the first to find out about Coffey’s power to heal. The movie starts off with Paul and his urinary issues, but as Coffey moves into the mile, not only Paul’s, but everyone’s lives get affected by just one person. I will be basically writing about how Paul’s life is influenced by all the good that Coffey has done. As Paul continues to get to know Coffey, the guards and the cellmates become influenced. Paul goes through many conflicts attempting to help Coffey, such as Percy and his lack of sympathy, and Wild Bill and his mental disabilities. Writing about the conflicts and resolutions of Paul, will in fact be easy, since the whole movie revolves around Paul. I will be mentioning how Coffey is a spiritual example and Paul is guided through his life, even though he is cursed to live a long life without his loved ones.
This should be an easy essay for a final, but it will be difficult to explain specific events of Paul’s life and how they are affected.

Questions? Or Solutions?

I think I shall write this essay about how King portrays Percy much less sympathetically than Del or Coffey. I am thinking of writing about this because I find it interesting that he shows more sympathy for two of the inmates instead of the guard. Throughout the movie, he keeps trying to point towards something, more along the lines of an idea he is trying to get across. The way I see it, Coffey is a gentle soul who can heal people through the grace of God, as Paul believes it. Del, I’m not too sure about, mainly because I haven’t seen the entire movie yet. Percy, as I also see it, is a horrible person who only got the job because of his connections. Percy just wants to make life hell for the inmates, to which Paul disagrees with. In the movie, he breaks Del’s fingers because Paul sent him off of the death row or the “Green Mile” as they called it. Percy finally gets his one wish to set up an electrocution. He purposely doesn’t use the sponge properly, and watches Del writhe in agony during the electrocution and Del even catches on fire before he dies. I thought to do my essay on this topic, because it shows, well at to me it does, that not all death row inmates are horrible people and that not all guards are nice people.

Chances are I will write about something spiritual ofcourse. I'm not going to make Coffey to be a Jesus though. I'd like to just write a short summary about all of the characters and how they worked together. If not I'll write about Coffey. I'll point out how his personality goes with his spiritual power. He seems to be so meek and childish yet he has the power of God to take away powerful negativity. If all people were like Coffey the world would be so much better. This will be the point i'll make.

essay 5

Im thinking of doing the protagonist on the Green Mile movie.It seem that Paul is in a delima on how to handle mister Coffey and his power. He doesnt belive that he is a murder and killed those two girls, but ever one else tells him that he did. He wonder how a gental careing and nice person as John Coffey is how he could do such a thing. He doesnt know what to do about him till the day come when John shows him the truth about what happend to the little girls.