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Created By Kobe King, Kyle Nelson, and Liam Gunter.

The gunslinger follows the story about a man named Roland (aka The Gunslinger) and his hunt for an individual who goes by the Man in Black alongside Roland, he is accompanied by a boy he meets who goes by Jake Chambers. Roland's hunt for The Man In Black sends him on a unique journey, introducing new characters, social issues, and controversy. Throughout the novel, Oy, Randall Flagg, Susannah Dean, Jamie De Curry, Steven Deschain, Cuthbert Allgood, Eddie Dean, and Alain Johns all play a contributing role as secondary characters. The novel leaves it to the reader to decide what social issues exist in its dystopian world. Poverty, Injustice, Prejudice, etc. almost anything could fit into 'The Gunslinger'  narrative. One social issue that we focused on was Perseverance. Throughout the story, Roland displays this through the actions that he takes in order to capture the man in order to catch the Man in Black, one specific example is when he chooses to continue to follow the Man in Black over saving Jake's life. However, Stephen King left no direct evidence to insight one primarily thesis or issue. In terms of plot, this is where we found that the book was relatively lackluster and even boring too read. It had very little points of interest and left a lot of what felt like "filler" in between those points. Other analysts described the book as a set up for the rest of the series. Like the first 10 minutes of a movie, where you patiently await the action that should insue, but it never happens in the book. Had there been more turning points or action in the story or even just more conflict, that would be what could have peaked more interest from the readers. That is where we felt the book fell short.

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Works Cited-

“The Gunslinger.” Stephen King Wiki, stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Gunslinger#:~:targetText=It%20tells%20the%20story%20of,or%20parallel%20universe%20to%20ours.

Kent, and Sharmin. “IUPUI.” And Just as Far as Ever from the End: A Textual Analysis of The Gunslinger by Stephen King, 1 Jan. 1970, scholarworks.iupui.edu/handle/1805/2031.

Ripley, Charles William. “Other Worlds than This: Stephen King 's Dark Tower Gothic Multiverse.” Other Worlds than This: Stephen King 's Dark Tower Gothic Multiverse, Charles, 2014, lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4718&amp;context=etd.