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 food because the limited amount of resources they have while in the desert or when the Gunslinger has to leave Jake to die in order to complete the quest.
The first example of survival we see in Stephen King’s The Gunslinger is when he is sitting in a bar with many people and he catches a woman crying because she doesn't want to live anymore. So, Ronald decides to help her out by shooting her dead. Mistaken for murder, everyone in the bar attempts to kill him, not knowing what to do he kills everyone in the bar including 39 men 14 women and 5 children “He had shot and killed thirty-nine men, fourteen women, and five children. He had shot and killed everyone in Tull” (king,1,73). Ronald and Jakelater begin killing the mutants to complete their quest “The gunslinger put another bullet in the mutant’s head” (King,4,206). The main theme in …show more content…
This quote shows that they have a lack of food which means they can starve to death and they have a very small chance of survival but while having the main point being survival we see that Ronald is trying to eat as much as he can, so he can survive longer and
The first example of survival we see in Stephen King’s The Gunslinger is when he is sitting in a bar with many people and he catches a woman crying because she doesn't want to live anymore. So, Ronald decides to help her out by shooting her dead. Mistaken for murder, everyone in the bar attempts to kill him, not knowing what to do he kills everyone in the bar including 39 men 14 women and 5 children “He had shot and killed thirty-nine men, fourteen women, and five children. He had shot and killed everyone in Tull” (king,1,73). Ronald and Jakelater begin killing the mutants to complete their quest “The gunslinger put another bullet in the mutant’s head” (King,4,206). The main theme in …show more content…
This quote shows that they have a lack of food which means they can starve to death and they have a very small chance of survival but while having the main point being survival we see that Ronald is trying to eat as much as he can, so he can survive longer and