The Green Mile Book Analysis

The novel The Green Mile was published in 1996 by the multi-award winning author Stephen King. Stephen King has published over 56 novels including the popular The Shining, Salem’s Lot, and The Stand. The Green Mile was the #1 New York Times Bestseller alongside with winning the Bram Stoker Award for the Best Novel in the year of 1996. This novel happened during the years of depression between 1929-1939 where it was tough for many people . The main character is Paul Edgecombe, an E Block supervisor who works at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. He takes care of the prisoners before they get executed by an electric chair referred to as “Old Sparky”. This novel centers on the conflict that Edgecombe has when he believes that a prisoner is innocent and

After watching the film twice, I have noticed how the director has been strictly true to the novel and the main plot. The casting department for the movie did an excellent job of electing the right actors that represent the characters in the novel. For example, in the novel, John Coffey was portrayed as a man who was black, tall, and muscular. The actor in the film who represented John Coffey was the late Michael Clarke Duncan who was billed at a height of 6’5. “...and he stood six feet, eight inches tall”(King 10). “...he was broad in the shoulders and deep through the chest, laced over with muscle in every direction”(King 11). The way Stephen King described John Coffey in The Green Mile was very similar to his appearance in the film. Another example would be the troublesome man everyone hated on E block whose name is Percy Wetmore. The way Percy acted in the novel is an exact representation of how he is like in the film. Doug Hutchison, who portrayed as Percy Wetmore in the film, is described as an annoying person who always wants to create a ruckus on E block. The casting crew made sure he acted like how he was