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Overview
Author
Sister Helen Prejean
Year Published
1993
Type
Nonfiction
Genre
Memoir
Perspective and Narrator
Dead Man Walking is written in the first person from the author's point of view.
Tense
Dead Man Walking is narrated in both the present and past tenses.
About the Title
"Dead man walking" is a phrase guards on prisons' death row may cry out as they escort an inmate scheduled for an upcoming execution through the corridors of the prison.
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