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  bizarro8728 октября 2012 г.

  I don’t know why I always pick out books which are really hard to read… Probably leading quite an ordinary life I’m subconsciously tempted to feel and live out something extraordinary which this very book definitely is.
  I’ve heard a lot about the movie but I never turned to it. So I turned first to the book. I knew the plot vaguely but it never crossed my mind that it could be so fascinating. Honestly speaking, the whole thing about prison and condemned people is pretty disgusting and sometimes scary. So scary and intimidating that while you’re reading some parts you feel your temples throbbing. A few parts in the book will make you laugh. And the most parts will make you think, assess, revalue, understand, sympathize and even suffer.
  I guess this book arise a lot of issues. The crucial one is a question of justice. In some states of the USA the death penalty is still a rather wide-used sentence. In 1932 the number of these states was even larger. People all over the word ask themselves the question how anybody on Earth could possibly judge somebody and therefore sentence them to death. The very thought of this issue is intimidating and absolutely out of moral. Are we really even better than this criminal after all?
  

  
  “Most of us would feel that small when approaching God’s judgment seat after our lives were over, but very few of us would be able to feel so unafraid.”

  
  Moreover, what if this very criminal who did apparently some outrageous, disgusting, appalling things was not even guilty? It means we have to execute an innocent person for nothing? How could we sleep at nights after that?
  The condemned guy – John Coffey, whose name is like a drink only spells in a different way, is blessed by God to help people, cure them no matter what happened, sense what ordinary people are unable to do:
  

  
  “There are pieces of them still in there…I hear them screaming.”

  – said John about the room where people died in agonies.
  Unfortunately, he has to go through the Green Mile to the Old Sparky (a nice name for an electric chair, isn’t it?) for the crime he didn’t commit:
  

  
  “I couldn’t help it. I tried, but it was too late.”

  - said John.
  The screws even are willing to help him out after all the miracles they witnessed.
  

  
  “I mean we’re fixing to kill a gift of God. One that never did any harm to us, or to anyone else. If I end up standing in front of God the Father Almighty and He asks me to explain why I did it? That is my job? My job?”

  
  Nevertheless John wants no longer to stay. Because all this pain he can’t bear anymore:
  

  
  “He kill them with they love. That’s how it is every day. All over the world.”

  – said John about the real killer of the victims.
  

  
  “That’s how it is. Every day. All over the world. That darkness. All over the world.”
  “Six words. “I’m sorry for what I am.”

  
  The world is two-faced. There are the most beautiful things as well as the ugliest ones. The whole nature is in balance. The wolf will always stay a wolf. The sheep will always stay a sheep. But only the man is able to rise to the divine level or fall to the beast one:
  

  
  “Only God could forgive sins, could and did, washing them away in the agonal blood of His crucified Son, but that did not change the responsibility of his children.”

  
  We always have a choice which direction to go.

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