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    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 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 the whole town to turn against him. He slaughters every…

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    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.…

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    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…

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    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…

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    Livesey Abar Perspective in Literature Ms. Apthorp 9 February 2018 Figurative and Musical Devices Developing Themes of Racial Inequality Countee Cullen’s expressive sonnet, From the Dark Tower, explores the emotion of the African-American experience during a time of systemic oppression through his use of vivid symbols and musical devices. In the opening symbol of planting and reaping, Cullen discusses inequitable relationships on the basis of race before transitioning to the stars and the sky…

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    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…

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    representations of the flaws found in a systematic society. In Genesis eleven, accounting for the Tower of Babel, the people of the time spoke one language…

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    church was not built for an intricate design, but for a functional purpose. One limitation of using brick to build the church is that it must be a plain, rectangular shape and does not give the architect much room for creative design. By using brick to build a majority of the church it is clear that this church was created for day-to-day functionality over creative design; there are minimal design aspects to this church when compared to churches from previous periods. In addition to the…

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    The Great Towers of London The Tower of London is a series of buildings with dark histories. The Tower is the most notorious building in the Medieval Times. The tower was built about 1,000 years ago and was built by a very well known conqueror. In the early 1080’s, William the conqueror began to build the Tower of London. (“Tower of London”) Before the tower was built, William decided that the name should be “Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress” (The Tower of London). The first foundation…

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    I walk out of my hotel and look to my right and left. I’m trying to orient my street map in the dark. Les Jardins d’Eiffel is on a side street, Rue Amélie, in the seventh arrondissement in Paris. Emily walks out behind me, giddy with excitement. She’s 17, and I’m the only adult student on the trip, having just turned 18, so her mom has allowed her to go with me to see the Eiffel Tower at midnight. “Are you sure you can find it?,” shes asks nervously. “Yes, just let me focus,” I reply The truth…

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