![]() ![]() Through Paul’s story, King shows that ordinary members of society, too, must walk their own version of the “Green Mile,” living their life waiting for the inevitable ordeal of death.Īll characters on E block have been condemned to the death penalty for their crimes. ![]() Life, then, can be seen as a period of waiting for a potentially painful end, however long or short the wait may be. ![]() Not only can death never be eradicated but there is also never a guarantee of how one is going to die. Beyond the electric chair, though, death strikes in a variety of ways, and Paul comes to terms with the fact that criminals and ordinary civilians alike must suffer through the brutal certainty of death. Although execution by electrocution is still legal in many states, the narrator, Paul Edgecombe, does not refrain from expressing his discomfort-and at times, his utter disgust-at this method of execution. As a consequence of their crimes, all prisoners on E block-known as the “Green Mile” because of the color of its tiles-are meant to wait for the moment of their execution on the electric chair. In The Green Mile, death appears first and foremost as a form of punishment. ![]()
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