Climax: The mouse, at that time he was
known as Steamboat Willy, ventured onto
the Green Mile three nights later only to
be chased into the restraint-room by
Percy. Brutal and Paul later find out where
the mouse lived in the room.
The Green Mile: The Two
Dead Girls
Stephen King
Avery Younis
The mouse ventures onto the Green Mile for the first
time, and Brutal, Paul, and Dean watch it full of curiosity.
Paul talks with Warden Moores, who says that Paul
needs to have the “talk” with Coffey and that William
Wharton is coming to E-Block.
Paul does some more investigating on John Coffey. He
finds the story of John Coffey’s murdering in the
newspaper.
Resolution: Later that year Brutal
shows Paul a place in the ceiling of
the restraint room that smells of
peppermint and has little pieces of
colored spool in it. It is where Mr.
Jingles was living and both Brutal
and Paul agree to never take part
in another execution. Their last one
they took part in was John Coffey’s.
Rising Action
John Coffey comes to Cold Mountain penitentiary after
he murdered two young girls (the Detterick twins). Paul
talks to him to get more information about who John
Coffey is.
Exposition: The main
character/narrator, Paul
Edgecombe, is describing the
electric chair, also known as
“Old Sparky”, and the
imprisoned peoples reactions
to it.
The Green Mile: The Mouse
On The Mile
Stephen King
Avery Younis
Climax: William Wharton comes to E-Block
drugged, or so they think. At the right
moment Wharton comes to life and starts
strangling Dean. Paul pulls out his gun.
Rising Action
The Chief is visited by some of his family before he walks
down the mile. They have a smooth execution and
Delacroix comes to the mile, where Percy beats him for
something that was an accident.
Paul talked with The Chief about his happy memories
because The Chief was going to be executed in a matter
of days.
The mouse came on the mile three days after Percy had
chased it away. Bill and Dean were there this time and
fed the mouse and were once again fascinated by its
almost human characteristics. Percy throws his baton at
it but just barely misses and doesn’t kill the mouse.
Exposition: Paul is older now
and is at a nursing home in
Georgia Pines. He is talking
about a man there who is a lot
like Percy, and he starts talking
about his days when The Chief
and The Pres were around.
Cliff Hanger: William is
choking Dean and Paul
has just pulled out his
gun but is worried that if
he shoots he might shoot
Dean. William dares him
to shoot…
Delacroix says he tamed Mr. Jingles and keeps him as a
pet. Percy is suddenly nice, because he was granted
permission to “look like he was the one carrying out Del’s
execution.” Del gets a cigar box from Old Toot-Toot to
keep Mr. Jingles in. He teaches Mr. Jingles a trick with an
empty spool and Harry brought Del some crayons to
make the spool colorful. He and Mr. Jingles also eat
peppermints that were given to Del by his aunt.
Old Toot-Toot is on the mile with his snack cart when Mr.
Jingles shows up. Mr. Jingles won’t take food from TootToot but will take food from the usual people on the
mile. They rehearse the execution of The Chief with
Toot-Toot.
The mouse came back onto the mile even though Bill and
Dean thought he wouldn’t come back. Although, they
realized that the mouse only came back on the days
Percy was off.
The Green Mile: Coffey’s
Hands
Stephen King
Avery Younis
Climax: Paul has a talk with Del about the execution. Del said that Paul has to find
Mr. Jingles a home. Paul starts naming people and ideas but Del keeps denying,
saying that they are just not good enough. Thankfully Brutal shows up and makes up
this whole story about a place in Florida for circus mice, but only the smartest mice.
Del loves it and says that that is where Mr. Jingles will go. Percy shows up and is
very angry.
Rising Action
Wild Bill Wharton goes to the restraint room. After he
gets out, he threatens the guards and they spray him
with a fire hose. They put him in a straight jacket and
take him back to the restraint room. When he was
allowed back to his cell he had taken a moon pie and
melted it in his mouth then sprayed it all over Brutal.
Resolution: Brutal has
just made Del really
happy, when Mr. Jingles
scampers out of the cell
after the spool and Percy
squashes Mr. Jingles with
his baton. Del screams
and horror.
Paul is still curious about Coffey and goes to see the man
who wrote the story about Coffey.
Percy was too cowardly to hit Wharton and instead
Brutal comes in at just the right moment and knocks
Wharton out with a baton.
Exposition: Paul is explaining
Georgia Pines in a more
descriptive way when he goes
back to the cliff hanger of the
last book.
Paul, Brutal, Percy, and Toot-Toot rehearse Del’s
execution after Brutal escorts Del to a group of men that
want to watch Mr. Jingles’ spool trick. Percy gets too
close to Wharton’s cell and Wharton grabs him and holds
him by his throat against the cell. Percy freaks out and
when Wharton lets go of him, he wets his pants.
John Coffey says he needs to talk with Pau,l and Paul
risks going into Coffey’s cell without any other workers
on the mile. Coffey helps Paul.
Characters:
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Paul Edgecombe- The “Boss” or the man in charge of the workers on the E-Block. He narrates the story, and is an over all nice, but
strong guy. He is married to a woman named Janice. He is in charge of all the executions on E-Block.
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Percy Wetmore- A short, “pick a fight” kind of guy who has what the workers on E-Block like to call “connections”. No one likes him
because although he acts tough and threatens the prisoners on E-Block, he is actually a coward that is really full of himself. The rest of
the workers don’t threaten the prisoners, because they know in the end that every one of the prisoners will have to walk the green mile
to “Old Sparky” so they don’t approve of his attitude.
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Dean Stanton- A worker on E-Block. He is strong and works along side Harry, Brutal, and Paul.
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Harry Terwilliger- One of Paul’s best workers who is always confident and strong.
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Brutus “Brutal” Howell- A funny good hearted man who is the strongest of all the E-Block workers and is Paul’s friend.
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Bill Dodge- Another worker on E-Block who witnesses Mr. Jingles shortly after Percy chased him the first time.
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Old Toot-Toot- An older man who has no teeth and drives a snack cart around E-Block. He also is the person that pretends to be the
prisoner in the execution rehearsals.
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John Coffey- He is six foot eight and about three hundred pounds. He is in jail for rape-murdering two young girls. He acts like a
sleepwalker most of the time, like he is never really “there”.
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Eduard Delacroix- A little bald French man who has a Cajun accent and keeps Mr. Jingles as a pet. He was imprisoned after he rapemurdered a young girl and set her on fire to cover up the evidence, only to kill two more children with the fire.
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Mr. Jingles- A mouse who first ventured onto the green mile one night. The E-Block workers were fascinated by how smart and almost
human like the mouse was. Mr. Jingles became Del’s pet and Del taught Mr. Jingles to do tricks.
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Arlen Bitterbuck “The Chief”- A prisoner on E-Block. He was the first elder of his tribe on the Washita Reservation and a member of the
Cherokee Council.
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Arthur Flanders “The Pres”- A prisoner on E-Block.
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William “Wild Bill” Wharton- A young and cunning prisoner on E-Block that gives everyone a lot of trouble.
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Setting: Cold Mountain penitentiary, 1932
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Conflict:
Book 1: Character vs. Character- Paul vs. Coffey
A new man comes onto E-block, his name is John Coffey. He is mysterious and no one knows much about him except that he murdered
two girls.
Book 2: Character vs. Character- Paul vs. The Chief, Percy, Del, and Wharton.
Paul deals with executions and new comers on E-Block.
Book 3: Character vs. Self and Character vs. Character
Paul struggles with his curiosity of John Coffey and the crazy acts of Wharton.
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