Jake Chambers

“Who are you?” “My name is John Chambers. You can call me Jake. I have a friend—well, sort of a friend, she works for us—who calls me ’Bama sometimes, but you can call me Jake.”

John introduces himself and says to call him Jake.

He brushed the song, and the sweetness of the song, aside. “Where are you?” he asked. III Jake Chambers—sometimes ’Bama—is going downstairs with his bookbag.

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The boy Jake. But this was no nightmare. It was a good dream. It was good because he was the one drowning, and that meant he was not Roland at all but Jake, and he found this a relief because it would be far better to drown as Jake than to live as himself, a man who had, for a cold dream, betrayed a child who had trusted him.

Roland dreams of Jake and recalls betraying the child; this evidence establishes a recollection rather than a new onstage appearance.

John Chambers, who was Jake to the three or four boys who were almost his friends (if his father had known this little factoid, he undoubtedly would have hit the …

John is explicitly called Jake by his school acquaintances.

That last was somehow the worst; that persistent feeling that his whole life had turned into a funhouse mirror-maze. Yet there was deep steel in Jake Chambers as surely as there was deep steel in Eddie and Susannah. Now it flashed out its dour blue lighthouse gleam in the darkness.

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Yes. Blaine had made a mistake. More, Jake Chambers, a boy of eleven, had picked up on it. And if Blaine had made one, he could make another. Maybe there was hope after all.

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The boy who had just passed them was John Chambers, it was him, only this version looked soft and innocent and painfully young. How did you survive? he asked his own retreating back.

Jake observes his own earlier John Chambers self.

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Beside him, cross-legged on the floor, was Jake Chambers. He had pulled Oy into his lap, a thing Roland had never seen before and would not have believed the billy-bumbler would allow. Both Eddie and Jake were splattered with blood. That on Jake’s shirt belonged to his friend Benny Slightman.

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The boy was Jake Chambers, and he’d come a long loop in order to return almost to his starting-place here in Manhattan. “I don’t know,” he said. “She calls it the sköldpadda, and it may help us, but it can’t kill the harriers that are waiting for us in there.”

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… During the days after they left the Green Palace that wasn’t Oz after all—but which was now the tomb of the unpleasant fellow Roland’s ka-tet had known as the Tick-Tock Man—the boy Jake began to range farther and farther ahead of Roland, Eddie, and Susannah. “Don’t you worry about him?” Susannah asked Roland. “Out there on his own?” “He’s got Oy with him,” Eddie said, referring to the billy-bumbler who had adopted Jake as his special friend.

Jake ranges ahead of the continuing ka-tet, accompanied by Oy, after the Green Palace episode.