Talk:The Green Mile (novel)

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• "serial novel" may deserve its own page, but since it doesn't have one I moved the link to point to Serial Number 0 14:12, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• isn't "negro" a pejorative term? - maybe some native english speaker could find a better term here (clem 19:57, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC))

it is nowadays, but the book takes place in the 1930s, when this exact term was not considered as such.

I just changed the last part of the article, where it states he told his friend how his wife died. This is incorrect - she died before he told her. It has been changed accordingly. username911

Contents 1 Moved/Cleaned 2 Clean-up tag 3 Who is the Cajun? 4 John Coffey and Lennie 5 Horror?

[edit] Moved/Cleaned

I have moved the Green Mile to a disambig page, to vacate for a much more extensive article. --Matt von Furrie 01:21, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

And I've put the article back. Write the new article first (under "Green Mile (book)" or what-have-you) and then change the current page to a dab complete with correct links to your new work. Or just leave things structured as they are, especially if most people think of the book first and the movie secondarily.

Atlant 12:14, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

most people think of the movie first. in fact, many don't know that SK wrote the book, or that there is a book at all. Blu elph44 19:22, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clean-up tag

I added a clean-up tag. The synopsis section in particular is in dire need of clean up and editing (fixing things like "prissy guard"). I haven't read the book, or else I'd try to fix it myself. -Elizabennet 00:03, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Who is the Cajun?

The line "Paul speculates [Mr. Jingles] was looking for the Cajun." is the ONLY mention of that person in this article. Obviously we need to mention who the Cajun is, but I have no idea. One presumes it is a former prisoner. 24.118.231.95 04:17, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

That would be Delacroix, the person mentioned immediately before in relation to the mouse. The idea is that the mouse was there a good deal before and was relatively normal, if seemingly cunning. But it took an immediate liking to Delacroix, and acted abnormally and intelligently thereafter.ArchangelX777 22:50, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] John Coffey and Lennie

For me, there's a clear link between John Coffey and Lennie from John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men". They're both abnormally big and strong; both appear to have mental disabilities, and act in an innocent child like manner; and both are as well meaning and nice as could be.

Is there any foundation for this theory beyond mere speculation? -Ralph.j.anderson 20:37, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Horror?

This is more drama than horror/fantasy. The Person Who Is Strange 00:34, 30 November 2007 (UTC)