Changes: The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Revision as of 15:16, 16 February 2012

The Drawing of the Three is the second book in the Dark Tower series published in 1987. The subtitle for this book is RENEWAL.

Synopsis

The book opens approximately seven hours after the conclusion of The Gunslinger. Roland has a dream about "The Sailor" he was told about during the Tarot reading, he soon awakens on the beach and finds a strange creature on the beach which looks like a cross between a scorpion and a lobster. Roland dubs these creatures: lobstrosities. The lobstrosity Roland encounters walks up to him and bites off two of his fingers, his index and middle. Roland is unable to shoot the monster because his bullets have become wet. In the struggle against this monster Roland also loses his big toe on his right foot. Roland soon becomes sick; possibly because the lobstrosities are poisonious but mostly due to his wounds becoming infected. Roland trudges down the beach in hope of finding the ones Walter told him of. He eventually comes upon a door marked "The Prisoner" in the High Speech. The door is only visible and can be opened on one side. Roland opens it and steps into New York City 1987.

Roland enters the mind of Eddie Dean, who is infested with a demon called HEROIN. Eddie is on a plane in the process of smuggling drugs for Enrico Balazar to save his brother, Henry. Eddie learns about the intruder in his body, Roland, and begins to listen to him. Roland tells Eddie that the flight attendants are on to him and he needs to get rid of the drugs. Eddie reluctantly agrees and Roland takes the drugs and disposes of them so Eddie can clear customs. Roland seems to think it's a ritual called "Clearing the Customs" and thinks Eddie must appease the gods over-seeing this ritual. Eddie eventually makes it through customs and meets up with Jack Andolini, one of Balazar's goons, outside the airport. Jack takes Eddie back to Balazar's place. He is being asked about the drugs and is taken into the bathroom by Jack. As Jack checks Eddie's body he and Eddie are pulled into Roland's world through the door. Jack looks around terrified and runs towards the beach where he is eaten by the lobstrosities. Roland and a now naked yet armed Eddie enter 1987 New York. In Eddie's world Roland did manage to acquire some asprin to help with the wounds inflicted upon him by the lobstrosites. The two enter a gunfight with Balazar and his goons, in the process of which Eddie's brother is decapitated. After the fight Roland and Eddie re-enter Roland's world and continue to trudge down the beach.

As their walk continues, Eddie begins suffering from withdrawal and having angry outburts. Roland and Eddie come to another door, this one marked "The Lady of Shadows". Eddie begs Roland to let him go through to get a fix, Roland refuses and goes through by himself as Eddie draws Roland's own knife against him and puts it to his throat.

Roland convinces Eddie to let him go through alone. He leaves Eddie to guard the door and his body which is left behind when he goes through the door. Roland enters New York 1964 in the mind of Odetta Holmes/ Detta Walker, a disabled black woman with schizophrenia. Odetta/ Detta lost her legs when she was pushed in front of a subway train.

Variant Covers

@@ Line 31: / Line 31: @@
 |[[File:The Drawing of the Three5.jpg|140px]]
 |[[File:The Drawing of the Three6.jpg|140px]]
+|[[File:Drawing_UK.png|140px]]
 |}
 [[Category:The Books]]