The themes of new life and light and darkness were present in the film the Green Mile. How new life was presented in the film was through the character of John Coffey, where in place of the dead or hurt ‘soul’ Coffey sucked out their ‘suffering’ and endured it instead. An example of new life was shown when Percy Wetmore had intentionally stomped on the mouse and had almost killed it and Coffey had sucked the ‘suffering’ of the mouse and suffered instead. When Coffey did that the mouse that was on the row of its deathbed was given new life again. Another example of new life was shown through the film when the four officers and John Coffey went to Warden Hal Moores’ house to heal his wife that was sick with cancer. John Coffey had again sucked the sickness away from Moores’ wife and had healed her completely of her cancer, giving Mrs Moores a new chance at life. Another theme that was evident through the film was light and darkness. Through the main character Paul Edgecomb, he was the representation of ‘light’ throughout the whole film. Where Paul had treated each and every one of the prisoners with equal rights instead as ‘bad man’.
