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Jack Sawyer

Jack Sawyer is recorded in 2 distinct storys.

The Talisman introduces twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer and identifies his mother Lily Cavanaugh Sawyer. Black House introduces the adult Jack as that same mother’s son and explicitly revisits twelve-year-old Jack with Speedy Parker. Matching family identity and recalled childhood establish continuity beyond a shared name. Black House explicitly remembers the same Jack Sawyer's childhood journey, mother's Twinner and friends from The Talisman.

Also recorded as Jacky Sawyer.

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Black House

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… anywhere else), a scarred Captain of the Outer Guards named Farren led a frightened little boy named Jack Sawyer through the Queen’s Pavilion. That small boy did not see the Queen’s court, however; no, he was taken through a maze of corridors behind the scenes, secret and seldom-visited places where spiders spun in the high corners and the warm drafts were heavy with the smells of cooking from the kitchen. Finally, Farren placed his hands in the boy’s armpits and …

Black House explicitly remembers the same Jack Sawyer's childhood journey, mother's Twinner and friends from The Talisman.

Black House ↗By Stephen King and Peter Straub
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Here, making breakfast for himself in his kitchen while listening to George Rathbun on KDCU, we at last find the former Los Angeles County lieutenant of police, Homicide Division, Jack Sawyer. Our Jack. Jacky-boy, as his mother, the late Lily Cavanaugh Sawyer, used to say.

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Black House ↗By Stephen King and Peter Straub

The Talisman

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1 The Alhambra Inn and Gardens 1 On September 15th, 1981, a boy named Jack Sawyer stood where the water and land come together, hands in the pockets of his jeans, looking out at the steady Atlantic. He was twelve years old and tall for his age.

Black House explicitly remembers the same Jack Sawyer's childhood journey, mother's Twinner and friends from The Talisman.

The Talisman ↗By Stephen King and Peter Straub
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… the living room into the ashy dimness of the nursery, where little Jacky Sawyer lay sleeping in his Pooh pajamas with the feet, little Jacky Sawyer warm and secure in a dry diaper. He saw Uncle Morgan glancing furtively back at the bright square of the door to the living room, his balding brow turning to ladder-rungs, his lips pursing like the chilly mouth of a lake bass; he saw Uncle Morgan take a throw-pillow from a nearby chair, saw …

Jacky Sawyer is the childhood form of Jack Sawyer, explicitly recalled with his mother and Morgan/Phil family history in Black House.

The Talisman ↗By Stephen King and Peter Straub