The Green mile is a six book series about a prison guard named Paul Edgecombe working on death row and the stories of prisoners that he reminisces about. It follows multiple prisoners and what happens to them and what Paul does for them. Paul tells these stories forty years later in a retirement home to his granddaughter.  stories that combine to create a heartfelt conclusion.

**Spoilers, Do not continue reading if you do not want to know what happens**

The book starts off with Paul in a retirement home giving an introduction to the reader. Then after the prologue Paul gives the introduction to Cold Mountain prison and talks about the other guards and what he’s done. He’s performed over seventy executions while working on the mile. He then explains why the cellblock is called the green mile, it’s because the linoleum is a shade of green. Prisoners either take a left which is the electric chair, or they take a right and go to the warden's office.

The first prisoner, Eduard Delacroix is sent to the mile because of the murders and rape he committed. One of the guards Percy Wetmore who is not liked by anyone scares Delacroix and makes him trip. Paul and one of his friends Brutal, otherwise known as Brutus Howell confronts Percy and tells him he cannot do that. Percy reminds them that he is related to someone that works in state government and he can do whatever he wants.

The warden tells Paul that another prisoner is coming for the murder of two girls, Paul is told to be precautious about the prisoner because he’s big and strong. Paul asks for the details and reads the interviews of the search party and the parents and how they found a guy on the riverbank named John Coffey with the two dead girls in his arms crying. Paul is horrified and tells Brutus to be cautious when they put him in his cell.

John arrives and the guards are shocked by the size of John but are even more surprised by how docile and cooperative he is. They put him in his cell and John tells Paul that there are bad people in the world. After that Paul is scheduled to execute a prisoner nicknamed the Chief for killing someone while drunk. The execution goes fine but Percy complains that he didn’t get to help with it.

After a while Delacroix finds a mouse in the mile and befriends it and calls it Mr. Jingles. Percy begins to hate the mouse and has a goal to kill the mouse to make Delacroix mad. After a month Paul is informed of a man named William Wharton who calls himself “Billy the kid” who will be coming to the mile for countless murders all over the south.

When Wharton comes Paul realizes that he is more of a pain than any other prisoner he’s had. A day before Delacroix’s execution Percy steps on Mr.Jingles and he begins to cry. John requests to hold the dead mouse and he cups his hand and when he opens it the mouse is alive and runs away.

The next day Delacroix is up for execution. Percy, Paul, and Brutus are put in charge and Percy doesn't soak the sponge and Delacroix is burned alive and Percy is threatened to work somewhere else.

Next William tells John that he killed the girls and John was trying to bring the girls back to life. Paul tries to get John out of execution but he couldn’t find a way for him. Percy begins to make fun of John and John pulls Percy to the bars and sucks most of the life out of him and Percy shoots William and is then sent to an insane Asylum until his death.

Johns time on the mile ends and everyone is sad and eventually the execute him but with good intentions because John wanted to die because he couldn't revive the two girls.

   **End of Spoilers**

This book shows that even the good people get blamed of crimes they never did. Paul's dedication to releasing John shows that trying to break to break the law is right when you have good intentions.