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Help and Exhaustion in The Green Mile
Paul
What did you just do to me?
John Coffey
I helped it. Didn't I help it? I just took it back, is all. Awful tired now, boss... dog-tired.
[falls asleep on his bed]
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Confrontation and Defiance in The Green Mile
Paul Edgecomb
You watch, you son of a bitch!
[grabs Percy, who is trying to turn away from the botched execution he caused]
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Life and its simple truths
John Coffey
John Coffey, just like the ], only not spelled the same.
[[drink]
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A Moment of Peace and Reflection
John Coffey
(singing quietly) ] … I'm in heaven … heaven …
[[Heaven]
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Reflections on the Weight of the Past
Paul Edgecomb
I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not. Usually, ] row was called "the last mile"; we called ours "the Green Mile" — the floor was the color of faded limes. We had the electric chair — "Old Sparky," we called it. Oh, I've lived a lot of years, Ellie, but 1935 — that takes the prize. That year, I had the worst urinary infection of my ], and that was also the year of John Coffey and the two dead girls.
[[death; [life]
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The Nature of Suffering and Responsibility
John Coffey
He killed them with their ]. That's how it is every ], all over the ].
[[love; [day; [world]
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Facing Judgment for a Difficult Choice
Paul Edgecomb
On the day of my ], when I stand before ], and he asks me why... did I... did I kill one of his true... ]... what am I going to say? That it was my ]? It was my job...
[[judgement; [God; [miracles; [job]
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A Conversation About Names and Spelling
Paul
Your name is John Coffey?
John Coffey
Yes, sir, boss. Like the ], only not spelled the same.
[[drink]
Paul
Oh, you can spell, can you?
John Coffey
Just my ], boss. J-O...
[[name]
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Regret and the Weight of Consequences
John Coffey
I tried to take it back, but it was too late. (crying)
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Secrets of the Green Mile Unveiled
Paul Edgecomb
What happens on the Mile, stays on the Mile. Always has.
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Dead Man Walking Acknowledgment
Percy Wetmore
Dead man walking, we got a dead man walking here.
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Emphasizing Stillness and Quietude
John Coffey
You be still, now ... you be so quiet and so still.
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Belief in Angels and the Afterlife
John Coffey
Why, they's ]. Angels, just like up in ].
[[angels; [heaven]
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The Inevitability of Death and Its Weight
Paul Edgecomb
We each owe a death — there are no exceptions. But, oh ], sometimes the Green Mile seems so long.
[[God]
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A Warning About Following Instructions
Paul Edgecomb
A big man is ripping your ears off, Percy, I'd do as he says.
[as Brutal grabs onto Percy's ears]
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Consequences of Carelessness and Cruelty
Paul Edgecomb
The man is mean and careless and ], and that's a bad combination in a place like this. Sooner or later, he's gonna get somebody hurt, or worse.
[about Percy; [stupid]
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Threatening Words from Wild Bill Wharton
William "Wild Bill" Wharton
You can come in here on your legs, but you'll go out on your backs. Billy the Kid gonna guarantee ya that.
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The Inevitability of Time and Loss
Paul Edgecomb
] takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, bears it away, and in the ] there is only ]. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
[[Time; [end; [darkness]
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Perceptions of Class and Conversation
Old Woman
It's interesting.
Old Man
Interesting"? A bunch of inbred trailer trash? All they ever talk about is fucking.
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Regret and Responsibility in the Green Mile
Paul Edgecomb
I've done some things in my ] I'm not ] of, but this is the first time I've ever felt in real ] of ].
[[life; [proud; [danger; [hell]
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Exhaustion from Loneliness and Human Cruelty
John Coffey
I'm tired, boss. Tired of bein on the road, lonely as a ] in the ]. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with, to tell me where we's going to or coming from, or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the ] I ] and ] in the ] every ]. There's too much of it — it's like pieces of glass in my head, ] the ]. Can you ]?
[[sparrow; [rain; [pain; [feel; [hear; [world; [day; [all; [time; [understand]
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Reflection on Life's Journey and Mortality
Paul Edgecomb
I think about all of us. Walking our own Green Mile, each in our own time.
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A Farewell Message from Percy Wetmore
Percy Wetmore
Adios, Chief. Drop us a card from ]. Let us know if it's hot enough.
[[Hell]
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Infirmary Relocation Discussion Among Characters
Paul
Percy, they're moving house in the infirmary. Why don't you go see if they could use some ]?
[After John enters his cell for the first time; [help]
Percy Wetmore
Well, they got all the men they need.
Paul
Why don't you just go and make sure?
Percy
Uh-uh.
Paul
I don't care where you go, Percy, just as long as it's not here at this very moment.
[Percy nods and walks down the Mile; Del grins at him as he walks by, so Percy smacks Del's fingers with a nightstick and makes Del scream in pain]
Eduard Delacroix
], he busted my finger!
[crying; [God]
Percy
I wiped that grin off your shit-poke face, didn't I?!
Paul
Goddamn it, Percy, get the hell off my block!
[Percy looks at him, nods and leaves]
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Desire for Simple Comforts
William "Wild Bill" Wharton
All I wanted me was a little corn bread, you motherfuckers! All I wanted me was a little corn bread!
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A Moment of Enchantment and Connection
John Coffey
* Entranced, watching ] and ] dancing "Cheek to Cheek" in ].
[[Fred Astaire; [Ginger Rogers; [w:Top Hat|Top Hat]
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A Last Meal Request Before Execution
Brutal
Arlen Bitterbuck, you have been condemned to die in the electric chair by a jury of your peers, sentence imposed by a judge in good standing in this state. Do you have anything to say before sentence is carried out?
Toot-Toot
Yeah. I want a fried chicken dinner with gravy on the taters, and I want to shit in your hat, and I got to have ] sit on my face cause I'm one horny motherfucker!
[[Mae West; cackles]
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Reflections on Mortality and Atonement
Paul Edgecomb
Elaine — you'll die, too. And my ] is knowing that I'll be there to see it. It's my atonement, you see — it's my ] for lettin John Coffey ride the ]. For killing a ] of ]. You'll be gone like all the others, and I'll have to stay. Oh, I'll die eventually; of that, I'm sure. I have no illusions of immortality. But I will have wished for ] long before Death finds me. In ], I wish for it already.
[[curse; [punishment; [lightning; [miracle; [God; [death; [truth]
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Authority and Frustration on the Block
Paul Edgecomb
Goddamn it, Percy, get the hell off my block!
[Percy leaves]
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Wild Bill's Chaotic Celebration of Delacroix
William "Wild Bill" Wharton
Barbecue! Me and you! Stinky-pinky, Pew-Pew-Pew! Weren't Billy, Jilly, Hilly, or Pa! It was a French-fried Cajun named Delacroix! WOO!
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