Who is Rhea of the Cöos? What role does she play in the novel? How does she compare to Roland’s other major enemies-the Man in Black and Sylvia Pittston? If Rhea had been a male character, would she have been as convincing or as formidable? Why or why not?Ĩ. What is the story of Lord Perth, which we learned about in The Waste Lands? How did that myth play out in the novel? How does it continue to resonate throughout Wizard and Glass? Do you think the theme of the Lord Perth tale is also one of the themes of the Dark Tower series?ħ. In what ways have we seen the wheel of ka turn so far in the series?Ħ. Ka is a wheel its one purpose is to turn and (inevitably) repeat. Why does Roland say that in Hambry “the waters on top and the waters down below seemed to run in different directions”?ĥ.
What is a thinny? What effect does it have on those near it? Is it alive? How does the image of the thinny help to bridge the two parts of Wizard and Glass-the section that takes place in Topeka and the one that takes place in Hambry?Ĥ. How does Eddie’s statement prefigure the coming action? Does his observation hold true for the first three novels of the series?ģ. And that’s really the horror of it, wouldn’t you say? Yes. Even now some of the stuff the Old Ones left behind still works. While riding in Blaine, Eddie thinks to himself, Not all is silent in the halls of the dead and the rooms of ruin. Why, do you think, did the Great Old Ones build Blaine? What purpose did he serve in their world? What do you imagine the Old Ones’ world was like?Ģ. The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass Reading Group Guide from The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordanceġ.
Wizard and Glass is a thrilling read from “the reigning King of American popular literature” ( Los Angeles Daily News). While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, Roland recounts his tragic story about a seaside town called Hambry, where he fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson, the harrier who-with a little help from a seeing sphere called Maerlyn’s Grapefruit-ignited Mid-World’s final war.įilled with “blazing action” ( Booklist), the fourth installment in the Dark Tower Series “whets the appetite for more” ( Bangor Daily News). In Wizard and Glass, Stephen King is “at his most ebullient…sweeping readers up in…swells of passion” ( Publishers Weekly) as Roland the Gunslinger, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. The fourth volume in the brilliant Dark Tower Series is “splendidly tense…rip-roaring” ( Publishers Weekly)-a #1 national bestseller about an epic quest to save the universe.
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