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Overview
Author
Stephen King
Year Published
1996
Type
Novel
Genre
Drama
Perspective and Narrator
The Green Mile is conveyed by first-person narrator Paul Edgecombe, the head prison guard.
Tense
The Green Mile is told in the past tense.
About the Title
In prison parlance an inmate's final walk before his or her execution is known as "the last mile." The single corridor of the setting of E Block, where those waiting for execution at Cold Mountain Penitentiary are held, is covered in dingy lime green tile. E Block's guards call this area the Green Mile.
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