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."