The Story of a Mouse

     The next section of this fictional memior is actually named, "The Mouse on the Mile" where Stephen King took the time to create a mouse character that does not fear anything and walks around the guards and the Green Mile all willy- nilly like it's its job to do so. The guards find that the brave little mouse is astonishing and give it the name Steamboat Willie, after another famous mouse. I don't know why Stephen King chose a mouse for this role. Why not a police dog that can smell cancer or a messanger pigeon that alerts when a nearby murder is occurring. This is a book! He could have thought of anything more interesting that helps this book live up to its dubbed genre fantasy, which somehow I believe was the wrong genre chosen by the genre-chosing overlords of all things hard and paper cover text. Something more interesting or useful than a mouse that scampers to and fro while eating occassional donated crumbs of food from the guards. But alas, I am mistaken, a mouse could be somewhat interesting.
     Edgecomb introduces and talks about two very, and when I say minor I mean minor, minor characters who are nicknamed, like everything else at the prison because people's or thing's original names never seem to suffice, Chief and The President. While the The President is released and becomes a free man, Chief is unfortuantly left to be executed by the leather strap and wooden glory of Old Sparky. Edgecomb takes the time to explain the process of executing someone very detailed from the rehearsal the day before to when they dispose Cheif's body. Again I ask, WHY does Edgecomb or any of these guards do this job? I guess because the Depression just smacked America in the face before these events they would get work anywhere left possible but still.
     Ending this section of deliciousness, Edgecomb also introduces anouther character who is an inmate but is not a minor character in the least. A another little but french man named Edmund Delacroix who raped and killed a girl but tried to hide it by burning down a building and killing six more in the process... find the sense in that. But little Del, as the guards again express their urge to nickname, wasn't greeted by the welcome wagon but by Wetmore who beat him with his leather baton because he claims that Del touched his manhood on purppose when in all reality Del was reaching out instinctively for something for him to hold on to while he fell when Wetmore pushed him.
     Thus, another section concludes with more of a plot unraveling.