The+Early+American+Experience

Book in Context to the American Experience.

__The Green Mile__ relates to the American experience by bringing up the topic of the death penalty. This topic has been an argument that has been going on for many years in America. Many people believe that no man deserves death and that life in prison would suffice; many other people believe that some men and or women are too dangerous to be left alive. In the book, John Coffey is an innocent man, but he was killed in the electric chair before his name could be cleared. I believe that this is shows how many men sentenced to die could have been innocent. The book also relates to civil rights. Many African American men were convicted of rape and murder in the South during the early nineteen-hundreds because of their race, which is also like __To Kill a Mocking Bird__. In a lot of cases they were innocent but sentenced to spend time in prison or to death. One of these cases was the Scottsboro case. John Coffey was convicted with this being one of the reasons. That time period was a brutal one for men like Coffey, but without it books like the Green Mile would not have been written.