The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Essays

In the 2003 novel, The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, by Stephen King, starts the journey of Roland Deschain, the last Gunslinger. This is the first book of eight in a series which tells the story of the Dark Tower. Roland is on a quest to find the Man in Black, and he encounters humans, demons, and many unearthly beings throughout his travels. In the middle of the desert, Roland encounters a boy named Jake Chambers, who, like anyone else, he does not think he can trust. Despite this, Roland decides

Question: If the book has villain, was his or her punishment justified? Starting off the book Dark Tower: The drawing of three I would think the main antagonist would still be the Man in black who was the villain in The Gunslinger(The first book of The trilogy Dark Tower). Thru the book it never goes in depth on who really is the true antagonist making you guess who will turn to be evil or will the man in black ever show up again. But it turns out to be a man named jack mort who is a sociopath that

gone back to the ways of an old western cowboy like town? Well that’s exactly what the world Stephen King had created for The Dark Tower series.The main protagonist of every book is Roland Deschain. Roland is the only gunslinger left alive and it is his duty, as a gunslinger, to search for the Tower. In the book The Drawing of The Three, the second book of The Dark Tower series, Roland has a deck of magic cards that shuffle and show him who will be accompanying him along his journey. His followers

After befriending a young neighborhood boy, an entrenched gang leader struggles to be a role model as he seeks revenge against a rival gang leading to a brutal gang war. BRIEF SYNOPSIS ROLAND (30’s, Puerto Rican) is an entrenched gang member, whose life is interrupted by a young neighbor boy, EDDIE (8), who looks up to Roland as a role model. They form an unlikely friendship. When one of Roland’s gang members is killed, Roland seeks revenge and kills ANGEL DIAZ. This ignites a gang war. Angel’s

A great theme of this book is “knowledge is power.” There are lots and lots of examples in the book “Unwind” that support this theme. Roland is a prime example of the theme “knowledge is power.” When Connor and Risa first meet Roland, they could tell right away that Roland is no good. Later on in the book, when they arrive at a safe house, Roland makes strategic moves to tell every kid there, without the kids even knowing, that he’s in charge. “Roland is a master of structuring life around him for

Have you ever watched a movie or a tv show, or even read a book, in which any character has two different sides? It was probably..., the good one and the evil one? And those sides are always opposites… Right? If this plot is not a strange thing to you, have you ever thought why is this idea/theme so present in many ways inside the pop culture? In 1886 the book "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", written by Robert Louis Stevenson, was released and became one of the most popular Stevenson's

factor that makes Elie and Roland so resilient is there use of pain to drive them forward. Many people may argue that you can’t survive off of pain. The uses of pain to make you resilient is unhealthy, and will lead you down a dark path. It's true, it will lead you down a dark path, but for these two characters it no longer matters for them; they have nothing else to lose.

a total curveball from his greatest association. The Dark Tower is a seven book long (technically eight, counting a short story) series of complete fantasy novels. While fantasy has been a genre King has borrowed from in the past, he's never gone into the deep end, at least, besides this series, which may as well have skipped the deep end entirely and jumped into the Pacific Ocean. The Dark Tower is crazy. The Dark Tower stars a lone "gunslinger" in an eerily quiet world much, much different than

Stephen King “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win” (“Stephen King” Brainy Quotes). This quote really expresses Stephen King because in most of his books the characters end up being the monsters. Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine (“Stephen King.” Newsmakers). His parents were Donald and Nellie Ruth King. His wife is Jane Spruce who is also a novelist (“Stephen King.” Newsmakers). He originally went to college