The Green Mile, directed and produced by Frank Darabont in December 1999 was a movie based on the novel written by Stephen King. The movie starts off in a Louisiana prison taking place on death row. The main character Paul Edgecombe performed by Tom Hanks described how they referred to the death row of this specific prison as the Green Mile because of the faded lime colored floor. Paul talks about how he has encountered many prisoners on death row for various different reasons but is taken aback when he meets John Coffey, a gentle giant with a supernatural gift with healing animals and people with ailments they come to experience. John Coffey performed by Michael Clarke Duncan has been charged and sentenced to …show more content…
George Herbert Mead is considered the founder of this theory; however, the term was originally coined by his student Herbert Blumer. Blumer also outlined the basics of symbolic interactionism as: humans interact with things based on meanings ascribed to those things; the ascribed meaning of things comes from our interactions with others and society; the meanings of things are interpreted by a person when dealing with things in specific circumstances (Keirns, et. Al). One of the major points a part of this theory is, what people believe to be real to them or not. This theory can be used to describe the common themes present in …show more content…
The characters expressing deviance have gone against the social norm and what is considered to be accepted in society. People are afraid of change and someone or something that does not fit into their comfort zone. The theory of social interactionism is very prevalent to deviance because if a person is not seen to fit societies “norms” then they are viewed as weird or strange and you in retrospect steer clear of interacting with that person because they do not fit your idea as “normal”. When john first performed his magic, Paul was taken aback by what had just happened and it scared him a little bit that this man who was a prisoner possessed this gift and was able to perform these