Talk:The Green Mile (novel)/Archive 1

Serial novel

 * "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

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)

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)

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)

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)