The group continues along the Path of the Beam. The second he re-enters Mid-World, both Roland's and Jake's minds become stable again. Eddie finally manages to complete the key and Roland pulls Jake into his world.

The emotions and trials that Jake faces while confronting the doorkeeper mirror not only Eddie's frustration but also Susannah's sexual triumph and edification as he is born into Mid-World. Jake also must deal with a deadly sentry himself.

Eddie must confront his anxieties and complete the wooden key he has been carving. Susannah has to distract the demon by having sex with it. Roland, with the help of his new companions, Eddie Dean and Susannah Dean, find a way to 'draw' Jake out of 1977 through a speaking circle, a Stonehenge-like monument inhabited by a demon. Both Jake and Roland realize they're going slowly insane. Roland remembers meeting Jake at the way-station and letting him fall under the mountain, but he also remembers seeing no one at the way station. Following the creature's back trail, they find the beginning of the beam and start on their path to the Dark Tower.ĭue to Roland's interference with Jake Chambers' death in The Drawing of the Three, both Roland and Jake suffer from the ensuing paradoxes in their minds. In the first real test of her newly taught gunslinger skills, Susannah has to shoot the metal 'thinking cap' on the bear's head. Roland and Susannah rush to get to Eddie and find Shardik attempting to shake Eddie free. Shardik finds Eddie alone and chases Eddie into a tree. Shardik, the bear guardian of one of the Beams, has gone insane and wants to rid the woods of the 'troublesome fire starters'. However, the ka-tet is not alone in the woods. During this time, Roland is training Eddie and Susannah to be gunslingers and Eddie is rediscovering his talent in wood-carving. The subtitle of this book is REDEMPTION.Īfter the events of The Drawing of the Three, Roland Deschain and his ka-tet travel through the Great Western Woods. Wizard and Glass The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands is the third novel in Stephen King's The Dark Tower Series.

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