I love them so much, read the whole series twice, but was really disappointed with the end, when he was right back at the beginning, because i didnt understand why. Does anybody else know?
2007-01-30 23:04:58 · 6 answers · asked by Tiger18 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Roland has to continue his quest until either he gets it right or he gives up. Also, this really plays on a theme that tends to run through many of King's stories. There is a line in "It" that has stayed with me for years since the first time I read it. I can't quote it directly, nor am I finding it online right now, but that life and time go around in a circle. I admit it was a disappointment for me to get to the end of the Dark Tower series, and he was back where he started, sort of, but then I remembered that life is a wheel as part of what I perceive as King's writing aesthetic. Life exists in parallel universes and as a wheel circling in and out one another.
2007-01-31 05:45:05 · answer #1 · answered by Piaz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I thought it was one of King's better endings (he's terrible with them). In the very end, when Roland is back at the beginning, none of his ka-tet have died. He hasn't even met them yet. Everything that happened was undone when he reached the top of the tower, and will have to be redone - in the right ways - all over again before the quest is completed. Who knows how many times he's traveled the same path, getting one or two little things just wrong enough that he gets sent back?
2016-05-23 22:25:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a kind of Holy Grail story and those can never end in the hero finding what they're looking for. There is some hope in his picking up the horn this time, but with most grail plotlines (there's poxy thousands of them around) they're never meant to actually succeed. Stephen King's a sneeky little bugger anyway, always has been!! He has also been slagged for the neatness of the endings to some of his old horror stories, so maybe this is his revenge!!
2007-01-31 05:24:12 · answer #3 · answered by Princess Paradox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Roland has to continue his loop until he is true to himself.
Because everybody dies so that he can have the tower. Maybe
his salvation will come if he ever decides to give up his quest.
The man in black told him to forget his quest. Roland said he is sworn to search for the tower and the man in black said then you
are damned. Don't really know. It would have helped if Stephen King would have wrote about the battle of Jerico Hill. Then maybe we would know why the horn of Eld is so important.
2007-01-31 01:21:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He's not QUITE at the beginning, as this time he has Cuthbert's horn - that which he was told not to lose.
So there is hope that at this re-iteration, Roland's quest may well end.
2007-01-30 23:11:18 · answer #5 · answered by mattygroves 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an infinite loop. However the character feels he has to endure for the rest of time. I guess...
Kt.
2007-01-30 23:08:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋