Jake Chambers

At eleven years old, blond-haired, blue-eyed Jake Chambers was the youngest member of Roland Deschain’s ka-tet. Before being transported to Mid-World, Jake was in the sixth grade at Piper, an expensive New York City middle school. He had few friends and felt estranged from his parents, who rarely had time for him. Until meeting Roland, Jake’s closest almost-friend was Greta Shaw, his family’s housekeeper.

Unlike Eddie and Susannah Dean, whom Roland drew into Mid-World in the second book of the Dark Tower series, Roland’s initial meeting with Jake took place in The Gunslinger. Roland found Jake at an abandoned coach house called the Way Station while he was pursuing the man in black across Mid-World’s desolate wastelands. Jake had no memory of how he had been transported to the Way Station, and only the vaguest recollections of his previous life in our world. However, under hypnosis Roland discovered that Jake entered Mid-World by dying in his own where and when of 1977 New York.

Although Roland initially believed that Jake was killed by his old enemy, the man in black, he later discovered that Jake was pushed in front of a blue 1976 Sedan de Ville by a psychopath named Jack Mort.

Just as Jake was the first of Roland’s tet-mates to be drawn into Mid-World, he was also the first to discover Roland’s potential for treachery. While crossing the Cyclopean Mountains, Roland let Jake fall into an abyss rather than lose his chance to finally catch up with the man in black. As Jake fell to his second death, he uttered the famous line, there are other worlds than these. Jake proved to be right. There are many other worlds, and there are alternative versions of Jake Chambers in almost every one of them.

Although at the end of The Gunslinger Roland essentially sacrificed Jake to his own ambition, he soon deeply regretted this choice. At the end of The Drawing of the Three, Roland traveled back in time and prevented Jake’s death at the hands of Jack Mort. Though Roland’s motives were admirable, the outcome of his actions was dire. He accidentally created a split and the time/space continuum, and both he and Jake were almost driven mad by two conflicting sets of memories, one where Jake died and entered Mid-World, and one where he didn’t. Eventually, with the help of Susannah and Eddie Dean, Roland succeeded in drawing Jake into Mid-World once more, healing the psychic rift that tormented them both, and making amends for his previous sin.

Over the course of the seven Dark Tower novels, Jake (who essentially became Roland’s adopted son) matured into an extremely accomplished gunslinger, proficient not only in the use of the gun but also in handling the sharpened plates known as Orizas. In the kitchen of the Dixie Pig, Jake used his Orizas to single-handedly hold back a legion of low men and can-toi.

More than any other member of Roland’s ka-tet, Jake Chambers upheld the tenants of Tet Corporation. While searching for his final doorway into Mid-World, Jake discovered the magical Rose (our world’s incarnation of the Dark Tower), located in the vacant lot on Second Avenue and Forty-Sixth Street. It was also Jake who finally saved the life of our favorite kas-ka Gan, Stephen King.

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