How was John Coffey linked to the murder of the two girls? The movie didn’t reveal whether he knew Wild Bill nor the girls’ family?
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How was John Coffey linked to the murder of the two girls? The movie didn’t reveal whether he knew Wild Bill nor the girls’ family?
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As you recall, Coffey had the ability to draw out afflictions in people and heal them. So he knew it worked on the living.
He came across the girls while in the woods. He attempted to revive the girls by holding them just as he had others. But there was a problem… his powers only worked on the living. He couldn’t revive the dead.
So, realizing that two little girls had lost their lives and he was powerless to save them, he hugged them close and cried for them. The posse came across a big black man of simple intellect holding two white girls covered in blood, and decided they had their murderer.
Being that it was long before the Civil Rights era, and in the South, they looked no further for a murderer.
Coffey didn’t know Wharton before prison, nor the victims’ family. He only knew how the crime occurred when he touched Wharton’s arm in prison and had a vision of how it happened.
It doesn’t seem like John new the girls. If he had known them, their father would almost certainly have known as well, and none of his lines imply a familiarity with John.
But even so, John does… know things. Things he shouldn’t be able to know. He knew Paul had a bladder and infection without ever being told. He knew when Del was dying painfully in the chair. And he knew the truth about Wild Bill. He gave Paul the visions of what Bill did, even though he wasn’t there to see it.
John seems to have the ability to sense when others are in pain. He probably sensed the girls’ pain as Bill assaulted them, and tried to rush to help, but he was too late. His power failed him, maybe for the first time in his life.
I wonder if that’s the real reason he stayed by their bodies. He could have run away but he stayed and waited to be found. Maybe he was so devastated at not being able to help someone like he always did before that he couldn’t take life anymore and decided to commit suicide by lynch mob.
How was John Coffey linked to the murder of the two girls? The movie didn’t reveal whether he knew Wild Bill nor the girls’ family?
John came up on the murdered girls, and tried to use his empathic powers to revive them by taking on their injuries. When found, he was holding the girls and crying because he “couldn’t take it back”. It was assumed it was because he realized he had killed the girls. A giant black man of limited intellect in 1930’s Louisiana was GOING to be convicted. He didn’t know it was Wild Bill until he was being taken out of Death Row to save the Warden’s wife. Percy was locked in the storage closet after the deliberately botched execution of Dell, and Billy was drugged to keep him quiet. When Billy (in his doped up stupor) grabbed at John’s arm, that psychic connection was made, and John knew the truth at that point. He didn’t release the cancer he took from Melinda, till he had the opportunity to grab Percy, give it to HIM, who went instantly insane and shot Billy with his service revolver. Then Percy released to cancer, but the damage was done. Through John, Justice was served all around. He saved Melinda Moores in a way that he couldn’t save the girls, he put Percy Wetmore out of the prison guard business and made Billy pay for his crimes.
What exactly was John Coffey’s link to either Wild Bill or the two murdered twin girls in The Green Mile?
John Coffey had no link to any of them, except that he had randomly run across the bodies of the dead girls by a river.
He tried to heal their mangled bodies, but his power was only to heal, not to bring back to life. John Coffey couldn’t save the twins because they were already dead.
The reason you probably think there was a link to Wild Bill is because John Coffey also had a supernatural sense for reading pe…
I remember seeing a scene in which he was found by a posse with both of the dead girls in his arms as he cried. It might have been a deleted scene I saw.
I suggested that Coffey happened upon the girl’s bodies after Wild Bill killed them.
He didn’t know them, to all evidence. He just happened to stumble across their bodies. He tried (apparently quite desperately) to heal them, but was unable to, because they were already dead. He was found cradling their bodies, covered with their blood, and weeping about “trying to take it back”, and everyone assumed that he’d raped and killed them, and was expressing his regret (including, apparently, his own lawyer).
That’s purely circumstantial evidence, and shouldn’t be enough to reach the standard of reasonable doubt (particularly in a capital case). But he was a giant, scary-looking black man in the south, in the 1930’s. The way it looked was more than enough for everyone to assume he was guilty. And he lacked the intellectual capacity to mount a serious defense, even if he’d had the opportunity (as I said, his own lawyer assumed he was guilty, comparing him to a mad dog who needed to be put down).
His only connection was random chance. They needed someone to blame, and he ideal for that role.