The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger

In The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King, the gunslinger tries to catch the man in black. The novel is 305 pages long. The book is set in a dystopian parallel universe. The world is similar to our own, having the song “Hey Jude” and its own versions of modern technology. The gunslinger crosses the desert with his mule and he encounters Brown. He tells Brown about what happened in Tull. He asked the townspeople about a man in black, where he discovers that he brought a man back to life. While in Tull, he spends his time with the barmaid, Alice. She gives him information about the man in black’s visit in town. The gunslinger and the religious leader have an altercation, leading to the whole town to turn against him. He kills every resident. The gunslinger finds a way station and Jake, a nine year old boy that’s not from their world, saves…

In The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King, the gunslinger tries to catch the man in black. The novel is 305 pages long. The book is set in a dystopian parallel universe. The world is similar to our own, having the song “Hey Jude” and its own versions of modern technology. The gunslinger crosses the desert with his mule and he encounters Brown. He tells Brown about what happened in Tull. He questioned the townspeople about a man in black, where he discovers that he brought a man back to…

the gunslinger came awake from a confused dream which seemed to consist of a single image : that of the sailor in the tarot deck from which the man in black had dealt the gunslingers own moaning future. He drowns Gunslinger the man in black was saying, and no one throws out the line. The boy jake ,But this was no nightmare This was a classic act by the man in black to trick Roland into believing jake was back from the dead and was seeking his revenge for his death. Marten transforms jake into a…

In Stephen King’s novel The Gunslinger, there are many themes, but the theme which stands out the most is survival. The gunslinger also known as Ronald has a quest to catch the man in black and while doing so, his main objective is survival. We see many examples of this throughout the novel, some examples include when the lady in the bar wants to die, so the gunslinger shot her but then everybody else in the bar attempts to kill him so he end up killing them all or when they almost runout of…

As the main character in a story, it's important that the character is a three-dimensional character. Thus, being said, let's take a look at Stephen King's The Dark Tower: Gunslinger. The protagonist of this story is Roland Deschain who speaks High Speech. "The gunslinger walked stolidly, not hurrying, not loafing. A hide water bag was slung around his middle like a bloated sausage. It was almost full" (King 1). Roland, the first of his time to take the "trial of manhood", and become the…

death and said he died from cancer. Later King dedicated a novel to him as a joke. King used other aliases such as John Swithen. King was hit by a car by a driver who was distracted in 1999. He had suffered several injuries and one was a broken hip. King was angered at the fact that he was hit and purchased the van for $1,500 and it was later smashed at a dump. He was hoping people could pay money for charity to smash it with hammers. In 2002 king retired from writing and was becuase of his…