The Green Mile

Name: Serina

Grade: Graduate

Title: The Green mile

Author: Stephen King

The green mile is the nickname the hallway in death row has been given, due to the stripe of green paint that leads past the cells and all the way to the electric chair. Paul has worked on the green life for a good amount of his career, but in all his time there, he had never met a man like John Coffey. John Coffey, the largest black man Paul has ever seen, was captured and sent to death row for the gruesome rape and murder of two little twin girls. The troubling part for Paul is that John can only spell his name, seems completely illiterate, and he afraid of the dark. Paul has to wonder how such a shy, seemingly harmless man, could have done such a terrible thing. John Coffey isn't the only person on the green mile that worries Paul. The newest guard, Percy, has a beautiful face but a violent mean streak. He hits the inmates even when they are on their best behavior, even though Paul and his partners have often told the young man that it is not how they handle things on the green mile. And Percy isn't just nasty with the inmates, he drives everyone else crazy as well. After many confrontations, Paul and the other guards are glad to hear that Percy will transfer. The catch is that he will only transfer if he is allowed to be the front man at the next execution. Delacroix, a Cajun/Frenchman was put on death row for burning down a house and killing everyone inside. Timid and deathly afraid of Percy, Delacroix is next in line for the electric chair. Paul and the others are a little nervous about running the show, but they figure that the worst that could happen is that Percy gets his lines wrong. However, things go horribly, horribly wrong. Onlooking spectators and the guards are appalled by the gruesome, agonizing death of the timid Frenchman, which should have been an average execution. After the terrible death of Delacroix, things start to go even more downhill when Paul discovers that John Coffey has the touch of God, and that the enormous man may be on death row for a murder he never committed in the first place.

With an amazing talent for telling touching, horrifying, and even comedic stories, Stephen King's greatest novel by far was The Green Mile. The novel was constantly intense!

I picked this book up because it was something by Stephen King that I had yet to read.

I finished it because I HAD to know what was going to happen next!

I'd give this book to anyone with time on their hands that can handle the things Stephen King dishes out.

*****It was amazing!