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This study guide and infographic for Stephen King's The Dark Tower (Series) offer summary and analysis on themes, symbols, and other literary devices found in the text. Explore Course Hero's library of literature materials, including documents and Q&A pairs.
Dive deep into Stephen King's The Dark Tower Series with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
- Tower
- Rose
- Keys
- Turtle
- The Number 19
The most obvious symbol in The Dark Towerseries is the one found in the title and on all the book covers. The Tower is the literal center of the universe, the place at which all the energies that create existence intersect. In the final novel the Tower is revealed as a physical manifestation of the supreme god of Mid-World, Gan. In an abstract sens...
In a vacant lot at the corner of Second Avenue and Forty-Sixth Street in New York grows a single wild rose. Roland and the ka-tet determine the rose is the Tower manifesting itself in the Keystone World of America, and they go to great lengths to obtain ownership of the lot and protect it from the encroaching Sombra Corporation—the Crimson King's c...
Beyond their role as functional objects, the keys that appear in The Dark Tower series represent the building of connections between people and worlds and access to greater truths. For example, early in The Waste Lands Eddie takes up woodcarving, a hobby he enjoyed before drug addiction nearly wiped away his enjoyment of anything. He carves a woode...
In Mid-World folklore, the world rests on the back of a giant turtle, a story derived from Native American creation myths. The turtle's association with creation places it in direct opposition to the Crimson King's propensity for destruction and chaos, thus marking the turtle as a representation of goodness and resilience in The Dark Tower series. ...
In The Dark Tower series, Eddie interprets the number 19 as a symbol of foreboding and bad luck, which it is. Nothing good is associated with the number 19, and it appears repeatedly throughout the latter half of the series. Generally, these appearances are affiliated with terrible events. When Mia hijacks Susannah's body and takes her to New York ...
Jul 17, 2015 · The answer is in the character of Stephen King himself. He wrote the Dark Tower series literally in real life, and fictionally within the book. He was, in essence, an oracle.
Roland's world- kind of the central hub of the universe that is breaking down as evil breaches the Dark Tower which is the literal center of the multiverse. As this breakdown occurs, the barrier between Midworld and Earth breaks down, allowing artifacts of the other worlds to bleed in.
I always understood it like that the rose and also a dog named Rover (lol) are just alternate appearances of THE tower, who has its only true appeareance in midworld. I thought a bit about it today and here is my proposal. (With the premise that there is only one tower.)
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Jun 17, 2020 · Okay, this is an actual Dark Tower novel, and chronologically it fits between Book 4 (Wizard and Glass) and Book 5 (Wolves of the Calla). However, it was written after the other seven books, and was published eight years after their final release.
