CHARACTERS
Roland of Gilead is The Gunslinger. The Tower is his
obsession. By reaching the Dark Tower Roland hopes to stop the destruction
of mid-world, maybe even reverse the destruction.
Marten was a great sorcerer who had seduced Roland’s
mother.
Susannah is the fused personality of Odetta Holmes and
Detta Walker. She was drawn from New York City 1964 to mid-world by Roland.
She is now a gunslinger.
Eddie was a prisoner of heroin from New York City 1987.
He was also drawn into mid-world by Roland. He is a gunslinger.
Mir (as known in legend) Shardik as
identified by its manufacturer. Mir is seventy-foot giant cyborg bear.
Jake Chambers is an eleven-year old from New York City
1977. Jake died in New York City at the hands of Jack Mort. He also died
in mid-world when Roland let Jake fall into an abyss. Just before Jake
fell he said to Roland, “Go then - there are other worlds than these.”
Roland thinks this is one of the most important things anyone has ever
told him.
Jack Mort, the pusher. He was a serial killer. Mort dropped
a brick on Odetta Holmes’s head when she was five-years old. This
was the incident that precipitated the Detta Walker personality. It was
again in 1959 that Mort pushed Odetta into the path of a train which took
her legs. Mort also pushed Jake in front of a bus when Jake died in New
York City. Mort’s mind however was controlled by Walter at the time
he pushed Jake.
Walter, the man in black is half-human. We don’t
know what the other half is yet.
Oy is a billy-bumbler who can talk with limited vocabulary.
Oy looks like a combination of a dog and a raccoon. He is extremely loyal
to Jake.
Calvin Towers sold Jake a book Charlie the Choo-Choo.
Towers also gave Jake a riddle book but the answers in the back of the
book were gone.
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