"What am I going to say if I end up standing in front of God the Father Almighty and He asks me to explain why I did it? That it was my job? My job?

      So what do we do when things come to an end? We may cry, we may beg for its return and we may wish it a wholesome goodbye but most importatnly, we miss it. And we miss it a lot. Like this blog, this book, Wetmore's sanity and job, John Coffey's life comes to an end. But before it does, what happens before that?
     On the way back to the prison, John Coffey was growing weak from the warden's wife's brain tumor. The guards all thought that even though his execution was coming soon, he would die soon.
     When they walked back onto the Green Mile Dean, who stayed behind to keep watch, was relieved to see them but Percy wasn't. When they finally let him out of the retraint room and straight jacket like a wild animal, he took his baton and his gun, walked about halfway down the Mile, stopped at Wharton's cell, and "emptied six shots into the sleeping man." Percy cracked. And that was the last of his days at the Mile or as a sane man.
     Some time after the comotion about Percy was settled, Edgecomb invited the guards abck over again and all of them including Edgecomb's wife discussed the matter of freeing Coffey and proving his innocence. Because as the reader finds out here and a later dialouge between Coffey and Edgecomb that Wharton actually raped and killed the little girls, not Coffey he was only trying to save thme with his magic power of healing. The group couldn't find a solution and sat silently as Mrs. Edgecomb stormed out of the room out of rage.
     When the day comes of Coffey's execution, its a very solemn day and Edgecomb describes it as his hardest one because he knows that he's executing someone for someone's elses crime. The execution is sucssessful but only Coffey didn't want the black bag over his head because he's afraid of the dark and didn't want to "go out left in the dark."
     After the execution, Edgecomb goes back to the future and shows the reader and his friend Elain that Steamboat willy, the prison mouse, was still alive and was living in a shed near the nursing home. However the mouse dies right there and then. The story ends with Edgecomb again as the speaker thinking about his time at the Mile and how it affected him. The closing line of the book is, "We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh Go, the Green Miles is so long."
                             And that, my friends, is The Green Mile.