really powerful allegory for the white people around him to learn from to feel sorrow over to feel sadness over their complicity and having to execute him he is their sacrificial awakening to injustice he is an experience for these white people to have in order to have them feel complicated and have doubts about their part that they play in the prison industrial system king is a NUMBER_TOKEN year old white man from maine the whitest state in the united states according to the most recent data from the u.s census bureau he is clearly politically left-leaning and he gives handsomely to charities to libraries and while he does often say boomer old white man things he is not a bigot he does have very obvious gaps in his education when it comes to race remember in NUMBER_TOKEN during the oscars when he said quote i would never consider diversity in matters of art only quality stephen and he writes in a genre that has never had any problem leaning into the exotic horror of black and brown people darkness blackness have all been long associated with evil wickedness in many ways king is attempting to subvert this with jon he is kind gentle empathetic so many things that black men are not often allowed to be but john doesn't want to survive he doesn't want to try to escape he doesn't want to try to use his powers to help himself he is just existing for others and in that way he is probably one of the greatest magical negroes of all time because he don't care about nobody else but his white people just like uncle tom he is there for a white audience to come to terms with their own biases not for black audiences to necessarily see themselves reflected in a horror story obviously i can't speak for every black person so i'm not trying i'm not trying to but i don't think that john coffey is a character that while compelling and interesting and emotional is there for us he is there for white people to finally reflect on all the john coffees that may have done in the past let me know you think in the comments below and while we're here if you like what you're seeing so far like thumbs up share subscribe engage the stand is one of stephen king's most popular works he wrote it to be his american lord of the rings and it is certainly long enough to qualify an apocalyptic superflu named captain tripps kills NUMBER_TOKEN percent of humanity and i'm sure they still wouldn't have worn a mask then the survivors are left to cope with their losses and stay alive but an evil comes in the form of randall flagg who sounds like a character from the suicide squad but is actually just a servant of satan and a great evil who will show up a lot of other king works the survivors end up seeking out abigail fremantle or mother abigail who functions as god's prophet on earth she is the daughter of previously enslaved people and is a ripe NUMBER_TOKEN years old she looked like an old black everglades gator she was old and feeble but her mind was pretty much in order abigail fremantle was her name born in NUMBER_TOKEN and with the birth certificate to prove it she'd seen a heap during her time on earth but nothing to match the going on
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