The Green Mile

Finally, I'm done reading the novel this morning. I started reading the novel about 2 months ago, but due to my busy sched and my blogging, I somewhat abandoned it,:( I really love reading since childhood, but internet and blogging has robbed my time alocated for reading,:) But still, I struggled and find ways to go back to reading again, my ultimate hobby.

As I started reading back "The Green Mile" in the month of January, I felt the excitement of finishing it. But reading it took a slow process coz I only read it while cooking dinner. But as Stephen King started talking about John Coffey, pronounced like the drink but spelled differently, I started to read more. I took the novel with me in my employer's place and read when I have the chance. I brought the book to the weekend and read it during my vacant time.

I really like the story of "The Green Mile". It's a story narrated by Paul Edgecombe, a prison guard Captain at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. He started writing the story during his stay at the nursing home, Golden Pines. He narrated his experiences as a prison guard and the prisoners who walked the Green Mile to meet "Old Sparky", the resident electric chair of Cold Mountain. And the story talked more about John Coffey, a towering, giant nigger man convicted of raping twin girls. But as the story progresses, Paul Edgecombe found out that John was innocent and that he has a special power of healing people from their illness. And Paul experienced the said power as John healed him with his urinary tract infection that he's been suffering for long. With just a touched from John, the infection was totally gone. John also saved Mr. Jingles from death. Mr. Jingles is the resident rat of Cold Mountain and he's not just an ordinary rat, but a trained one. They're all amazed with his gracefulness in doing things (such as eating, etc) and he's the pet of one of the inmates named, Eduard Delacroix, Del for short.

But anyway, Paul and the other guards were convinced that John was really innocent. He was caught by the police with the naked twins in his hands, not because he raped them, but because he tried to saved their lives after someone raped them. Despite their knowledge, but they can't do nothing about it. The execution date was already released and they have no choice, but to execute John Coffey despite his innocence. And I really weeped with this story coz just like in our present world, many John Coffey outthere are executed despite their innocence and paid for the crimes that they didn't commit. I can't even imagine what to do If I were in the shoes of Paul Edgecombe. Good thing and John has the talent to read minds too and he knows that Paul and the other guards are really sad in performing the execution. But he told them that it's okey coz he wants to go and have a rest too coz he's already tired of being alone and being bullied outside.

And as I reflect on the story, John Coffey reminds me of Jesus, who died on the cross to save us from our sins. He allowed himself to be executed to save us from being executed ourselves.

I'm not really a good storyteller just like my fave author, Stephen King, so If you want to know more about the novel, just Google it or buy a copy yourself. The story is really worth buying for,:) I was sleepless for nights just to finish reading the novel. Yesterday, I read the book before sleeping, and then I woke up at around 3am and continued reading the novel for an hour. I just hope I have reading magnifiers to aid me in reading especially when I don't have enough lights.:) And just this morning, after my employers left for work, I continued reading the book in the sofa and started cleaning the house late, around 10am already.hehehe. And finally, I'm already done reading it.

And just this afternoon, I started reading another Stephen King novel, Night Shift and I'm hoping to finish this one fast. Maybe in less than a month coz I still have a lot of novels to read here. So I have to double time,:)