Once Upon A Time... On Death Row

     It's 1932 at  Cold Mountain Penitntiary in some unidentified southern state in America... wow that's helpful. Our main caharacter, Paul Edgecomb is retelling the events of his time as the ward superintendent at the pen.'s death row E block. Where him and the other guards are compelled as their jobs to make the last few weeks of the prisoner's lives as calm and content as possible. Whether that is turning on the radio for them, listening to the stories of their misrable lives or keeping them in line until the day finally creeps up on them where the accused will sit their tired and sorry rear end onto the lap of "Old Sparky", the infamous electric chair. I love the sick humor the faculty of E block but I guess if you've been through as many executions as they did it may be easier to amuse oneself while someone is being roasted 'til their death within 50 feet of you.
     The story goes on and talks about boring stuff like the minor characters, the other guards, and their nicknames including a brief bio. Just simply the blood and skin of the story that gives some meat to the text so the reader gets a wholesome feeling reading the book. Then the first person narration takes a quick change of course and starts to obivously foreshadow about the most important and memorable inmate, John Coffey. Which he takes the time to point out that it's "not spelled like the drink". Apparently he raped then murdered (or murdered then raped) two blond twin and most importantly WHITE little girls so death row is where this guy is immediantly sent after a very speedy trial for this black giant. Which is also apparently the center of everyone's concern, in the ALL white court session, John Coffey the "raisin" of the joint.
     After the little montage about the whole reason that Stephen King wrote this book, Edgecomb goes on to talk about one of the guards named Percy Wetmore who is quite frankly an ass. He acts like he has that little man syndrone, the Napolean thing, where little men have to act all mean and tough to make up for their size. Wetmore is also an ass to say the least because he claims he has connections of a higher authority that landed him that job and faunts it to the extremes. Why he wanted to work on death row is my guess where he's probably trying to subconciously and psychologically make up for some childhood tragedy. Yes, Stephen King, I have you figured out. And Edgecomb is just complaining about him here but I should give him a little more credit than that by saying that he's also.. wait, no... just complaining.
     This story was broken up into six main sections with about eight to ten not very long chapters in each. Basically I'm planning on compiling my blog into a post a section, so including this one, seven total (and the first ito blog, people). So sit back and relax and prepare for only five more, oh please don't cry.