The characters / Recurring character
Alain Johns
Alain Johns is recorded in 5 distinct storys.
Roland’s childhood companion Alain is tied to the Gilead training group, the Mejis stock-counting assignment and his cautious nature.
Stories and supporting passages
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
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But on this day there were none but Jamie DeCurry, Cuthbert Allgood, Alain Johns, and Thomas Whitman. They clustered at the boy’s end, gape-mouthed and frankly terrified. “Your weapon, stupid!” Cuthbert hissed, in agony.
Alain stands among the boys watching Roland’s test with Cort.
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
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Cuthbert admired that. Upon first meeting him, many people dismissed Alain Johns as something of a dullard. That was very far from the truth.
Alain makes the tactful observation that Cuthbert admires in the Mejis scene.
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
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“Both of them.” “The vagrant dead,” Roland replied. “I heard of them from Alain Johns’s father.
Roland recalls learning about the vagrant dead from Alain’s father after Mejis.
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
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… but he found a battered coffee pot on one of the shelves that was not much different from the one Alain Johns had carried in his gunna long ago, when three boys had come to Mejis to count stock. Sai King’s stove ran on electricity, but a child could have …
Roland compares a coffee pot to the one Alain carried to Mejis.
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
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There were others—Alain Johns had been one, Jamie DeCurry another—for whom a sense of caution had been inbred, but that had never been the case with Roland, whose tendency had …
Roland remembers Alain’s inborn caution.