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The Green Mile - Theme

I think the theme of this book is death. I believe this because the entire storyline revolves around people dying. Without death, there would have been no murder of the little girls. Without the murders, John Coffey wouldn't have been there. Without John Coffey, Paul's mother would have died. Which again brings us back to death.

Paul Edgecombe

Paul Edgecombe is the protagonist in the book The Green Mile. He is the supervisor at death row in a prison in Louisiana's Cold Mountain Penitentiary. He suffers from a horrendous urinary infection for most of the book. Towards the end, John Coffey, a criminal on the green mile, heals the infection. John also heals a few other people, and a mouse, throughout the book. Paul is the first-person narrator in the book. He narrates from a nursing home for half the book. He also discovers that John Coffey was innocent in  the murder and rape of the two little girls when he finds out that William Wharton was guilty.

Authors craft - The Green Mile

The Green Mile is written in the first person form. The story is told by Paul Edgecombe. But Stephen king changes thing up by having Paul narrate from two points in time. Half of the time, Paul is telling the story from his current life in a nursing home. But for the other half, he is narrating as if he is there, on the green mile, in 1932. Stephen King uses lots of specific details in this book. He used many to describe how the green mile looked. "The wide corridor up the center of E block was floored with linoleum the color of tired old limes." He also uses a lot of descriptive words in describing the characters. "He wasn't all willowy like the TV basketball fellows, though - he was broad in the shoulders and deep through the chest."