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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 The Green Mile
| What is the nickname used throughout the book given to the electric chair? | The Green Mile
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Old Sparky. The chair is given the nickname Big Juicy also, but Old Sparky is used throughout the whole book.
1932. The book states many time it takes place in '32 and the movie takes place in a different year.
Percy Wetmore. Percy becomes an annoyance to everyone by being a jerk and mistreating the criminals. He can do all this without getting told about because he's related to the governor, which stops Paul and everyone else on E Block from beating him up.
urinary infection. Later this is cured by John Coffey, not sulphur pills, which have an unpleasant taste.
Sponge was dry. This is one of my primary reasons for disliking Percy. He knew the sponge had to be wet because it helped kill the criminal faster. By not wetting the sponge it took longer for Delecroix to die.
William Wharton. William "Billy the Kid" Wharton went to the restraint room for peeing on a guard and being disruptive. To get him there the guards sprayed him with water from a hose and put him in a straight jacket.
Mr. Jingles. That is the name Mr. Jingles of course whispered into Delecroix's ear. Mr. Jingles is so special because he performs tricks and is also cured by Coffey when Percy steps on him.
| How old is Paul Edgecombe when he writes the book at the nursing home, Georgia Pines? | The Green Mile
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104. He was born in 1892, making him 104 when he writes the book and 40 in 1932.
Mr. Jingles is there. Yes, Mr. Jingles lives to be very old like Paul because of John Coffey's curing. He still can perform the trick of "fetching" the colored spool. He dies during Brad Dolan's "visit" to the shed.
Bus crash. It happened in 1956. Paul was also in the crash (they were both passengers), but Paul was the only person not seriously hurt. He thought he saw John Coffey at the crash site and shouted out for him to help Jan.
| In the film, the last we see of Mr Jingles is when he is asleep in his cigar box at the end. What happens to him at the end of the book? | 'The Green Mile' - Film vs Book
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He dies of natural causes. He dies in front of Paul and Elaine after Brad Dolan (a nasty orderly at the old peoples' home) discovers why Paul goes on walks everyday.
A reporter. I'm not sure why they changed this detail!
1932. They had to change the year for the film, because they wanted to use the film 'Top Hat' as the movie that John Coffey watched - also something that didn't happen in the book.
| In the film, Mr Jingles reappears to Paul at the prison after John Coffey's execution. Where does Paul find him in the book? | 'The Green Mile' - Film vs Book
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At Georgia Pines. Paul finds him on the kitchen steps of the nursing home and instantly knows it is him.
Curtis Anderson. Curtis Anderson was the warden's chief assistant. Jack van Hay was another guard who pulled the switch at executions. Brad Dolan was the unkind orderly at Georgia Pines Nursing Home. Homer Cribus was the County Sheriff.
Steamboat Willy. In the book, Mr Jingles appears a few times before Del arrives and looks in all the cells as if he is looking for someone, who of course turns out to be Del. It's Del who names him Mr Jingles after saying that the mouse whispered it to him.
| In the book, Paul finds out that Wild Bill killed the girls by researching it rather than John 'showing' it to him. What was his final clue that convinced him John didn't do it? | 'The Green Mile' - Film vs Book
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John couldn't tie Paul's shoelaces. If he couldn't tie Paul's shoelaces, then he couldn't have re-tied the pack of sandwiches he had when he was found with the dead girls (The prosecution claimed he had re-tied the sandwiches after taking the sausages out, which were used to befriend the Dettericks' dog before killing it).
The President. He got transferred to C Block with a life sentence after Arlen Bitterbuck was executed, but died 12 years later when someone drowned him in a dye vat.
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