my theory on Dark Tower *SPOILERS*

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Travis. lake24

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Hi everyone, I am Travis and I am a Tower Junkie. I read DT2 when I was in 7th grade and was addicted right then. So I have a theory and would love to hear people's opinion or if you've heard this one before

I believe Roland died with his fellow gunslingers at Jericho Hill and The Dark Tower series his just his personal Hell and didn't even exist.

In Everything Eventual, their is a story called" That feeling you can only say in French" where Stephen king says I believe Hell is repetition. Which we all know how the Series ends. Which is why the Tower takes Roland to the desert .. After his death, where he can't atone for his sins, killing his mother, not being able too save Susan and getting all his friends killed. Which I believe is where he met his clearing at the end of his path.

I would love to know what people think. Please support any facts to support or oppose this theory I love well educated discussions. Thanks all
A Tower Junkie
 

GNTLGNT

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... after being shot by Farson's men and grievously wounded at Jericho Hill, his unconscious body was tossed unceremoniously onto a pile of dead gunslingers...upon awakening he stands up, claims the Horn of Eld from Cuthbert's lifeless body and continues his quest....more determined than ever, if that's possible...the "repetition" speaks to the phrase "Ka is a wheel"...and true destiny will eventually win out...
 

Travis. lake24

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... after being shot by Farson's men and grievously wounded at Jericho Hill, his unconscious body was tossed unceremoniously onto a pile of dead gunslingers...upon awakening he stands up, claims the Horn of Eld from Cuthbert's lifeless body and continues his quest....more determined than ever, if that's possible...the "repetition" speaks to the phrase "Ka is a wheel"...and true destiny will eventually win out...

What if that's just him beginning his experience in Hell?
 

blunthead

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Hi everyone, I am Travis and I am a Tower Junkie. I read DT2 when I was in 7th grade and was addicted right then. So I have a theory and would love to hear people's opinion or if you've heard this one before

I believe Roland died with his fellow gunslingers at Jericho Hill and The Dark Tower series his just his personal Hell and didn't even exist.

In Everything Eventual, their is a story called" That feeling you can only say in French" where Stephen king says I believe Hell is repetition. Which we all know how the Series ends. Which is why the Tower takes Roland to the desert .. After his death, where he can't atone for his sins, killing his mother, not being able too save Susan and getting all his friends killed. Which I believe is where he met his clearing at the end of his path.

I would love to know what people think. Please support any facts to support or oppose this theory I love well educated discussions. Thanks all
A Tower Junkie
I like conjectures like this, as I like the types of stories which initiate them. I'm not expert on DT enough, though, to explain why I think the proposed conjecture doesn't work within the story as it's told; except...
that I do think that, since Roland's fate, or personal Ka, demands he return again and again, and since I believe there's a purpose in the demand - that improvement is imposed on him each pass as he continues realizing the point of his fate - that perhaps eventually one pass, by definition the last one, will include his death at some point. And, I agree that that appropriate point would be Jericho Hill.

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SharonC

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I got the feeling that perhaps this was Purgatory, and that in order to enter heaven Roland had to repeat his search for the Tower. Each time something changes, (i.e. the Horn of Eld) and when he gets it right, his journey will end.