The Green Mile

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Paul Edgecomb is a warden in Block E of the state penitentiary in Cold Mountain. Block E is where prisoners on death row wait for their execution, the home of the electric chair nicknamed "Old Sparky". The corridor that leads to the execution room is covered in green linoleum, that's why the last way the death row inmates go is called the Green Mile. The Green Mile tells the memorable events that take place in the summer of 1932. When a towering black man named John Coffey is sentenced to death by the electric chair, the prison guards assume that he was as guilty as any death row prisoner.

But later, they start to believe that he is being punished for a crime that he did not commit. They learn that he was found holding two dead girls and thought to have killed them. The truth was that he was trying to use his god-given gift of healing to save the murdered children. Paul finds out about Coffey's "gift" when he has a urinary infection, and John tells Paul that he can help. When John touches Paul a strong "jolt slammed through" him, and all John Coffey could say was "I helped it didn't I boss".

"Because of the gift that Coffey had the prison guards ma

It takes a while before the murder of the little girls is gone into with any detail. The main part of the book is dedicated to the description of life on death row, not very exciting for a book of about 500 pages. However, the details make it worth reading and make you glad that now it is available in a single volume instead of in six installments. I wouldn't have wanted to have to wait for the sequel just when things were really getting interesting! King really takes time to develop his characters, and you can really see the way he develops them in this novel with the extrinsic detail of each one.

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Approximate Word count = 786
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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