Stephen King's Birth Of A Nation

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“Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.”
-- Ben Bernanke. In Stephen King’s novel the Green Mile, an elderly gentleman, Paul Edgecombe, retells his story of working in Cold Mountain Penitentiary during the Great Depression. This historical fiction tests Edgecombe’s morality. It is apparent that race places a part in putting prisoners to death. The main character even leads the execution of an innocent African American man. This is only a few years after D. W. Griffinth released his silent film classic Birth of a Nation. This was a realistic portrayal of Southern justice. President Woodrow Wilson called the film, “History written with lightening” (13th). The film was responsible for the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. John Coffey is an African American being housed in the Green Mile. …show more content…

When there Coffey gave Melinda Moores a long soul kiss and sucked out the cancer. Big John may have saved the warden’s wife but the poison was having some serious effects on the big man. When they got Coffey back to the Mile, he was in bad shape. The boy’s helped Coffey to his cell then went to free Percy Wetmore. After freeing Percy and giving him the riot act, Paul and the others were still scared that Wetmore would talk. Wetmore agreed to not say a word and was on his way out for the day when Paul claimed, “I saw his long brown arms shoot out from between the bars and yelled, “Watch it, Percy, watch it!” Percy started to turn, his left hand dropping to the butt of his stick. Then he was seized and yanked against the front of John Coffey’s cell, the right side of his face smashing into the bars” (King 447). John Coffey expelled whatever he had inhaled out of Melinda Moores’ body and put into Percy’s lungs. Percy then fixes the

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