Blue Eyes

[B Rag]

I posted this a while back on .net, but it quickly went off topic and I never got many answers. I hope this is the right section of the site to put this on.

I've noticed that a lot of main protagonists in the DT series and related books have blue eyes. These include Roland, Jake, Jack Sawyer (The Talisman), several members of the Losers club (It), King himself, and some others that I can't remember. Does anyone else think that blue eyes are somehow significant, like a sign that someone is an agent of the White?

[Spencer]

Well, I know the Crimson King damn sure didn't have blue eyes, and can't remember any Agents of the Random that did. Although I'm sure Flagg COULD.

[sarah]

I have also noticed that several charcters have blue eyes. I was thinking that is was King's way of putting a bit of himself into that specific charcter.

Have you done any research on the meaning of blue eyes? I'd be curious to know if or what you've found out.

[B Rag]

Actually, I think Flagg might have had them at some point.. but I doubt it was his natural eye color.

No, I haven't done any research, but it probably would be interesting.

[Hannah]

I've always thought there was something mildly significant about the blue eyes as well. I just have no idea what.

If blue eyes = good guy, then I'm certainly a bad guy with my brown eyes.

[tamez]

I have no answers
only another example
blue eyed carol gerber from HiA.

[Letti]

Hmmm... I don't know. I have blue eyes so when I read a character has blue eyes I feel nothing. It's natural.
Some people have blue eyes some have brown and some have green.
But it can be a good question. I have never thought about it.

[MonteGss]

I've always thought there was something mildly significant about the blue eyes as well. I just have no idea what.

If blue eyes = good guy, then I'm certainly a bad guy with my brown eyes.

I'm evil too then!
Damn! I wanna be an agent of the WHITE.

[Ruki]

i tried looking up stuff about blue eyes but i found nothing having to do with symbolism or mythology, i might have been looking in the wrong places. the only slightly interesting thing i came across is that having blue eyes makes it a bit easier to see in dim light.

[ZoNeSeeK]

I don't know if this is pertinent to King's books but its interesting none the less:

If the Census Bureau has it right, the 300 millionth American entered the United States kicking and screaming this morning. The odds are that this milestone American is a boy, born to a white family in a California suburb. He will have a 1-in-4 shot of graduating from college, will probably marry, father two children, struggle with his weight, and live to see his 85th birthday.

What he will probably not have -- that his grandfather likely did -- is a pair of blue eyes.

Once a hallmark of the boy and girl next door, blue eyes have become increasingly rare among American children. Immigration patterns, intermarriage, and genetics all play a part in their steady decline. While the drop-off has been a century in the making, the plunge in the past few decades has taken place at a remarkable rate.

About half of Americans born at the turn of the 20th century had blue eyes, according to a 2002 Loyola University study in Chicago. By mid-century that number had dropped to a third. Today only about one 1 of every 6 Americans has blue eyes, said Mark Grant, the epidemiologist who conducted the study...

Ive got green eyes and diem has blue eyes, we should spawn a mini-race of colourist children!

[Matt]

Wow, what a cool thread.

I have noticed a lot of people in King books have blue eyes as well. I always wrote it off to the fact that its the most exciting eye color to most folks.

[Letti]

Wow, what a cool thread.

I have noticed a lot of people in King books have blue eyes as well. I always wrote it off to the fact that its the most exciting eye color to most folks.

But why the blue hell?

[Matt]

Blue hell?

Did I miss something?

[Jean]

Blue hell. Blue around the gills. Blue bird and Blue Beard, blue in the face, Where have you been, my blue-eyed son?

The blue-eyed poems are countless; it's even worse in French where they rhyme bleu (blue) with deux (two) and about 25% of all other words existing in French.

Closer to the topic, I remember something from genetics - the blue eyes being a [here comes a scientific term I don't know in English], thus dying out, becoming more and more rare, being supplanted by brown eyes... thus, sign of resistant ancient blood, surviving nobility.

[Matt]

I like that

I have a pretty shade of hazel but always wondered what it would be like to have those cool blue eyes.

[Jean]

I like that

I have a pretty shade of hazel but always wondered what it would be like to have those cool blue eyes.

I never even did. I know my place. My swampy green is traditionally reserved for minor villains, the ones who don't even have such a redeeming feature as the magnitude of their vices. "Pretty shade of hazel" is at least what Eddie had!

[Matt]

If I am on Eddies level, then I am considering myself good to go.

[Fall of Gilead]

*hoards his blue eyes*

[Rjeso]

For the record, ew.

[Erin]

I don't know if this is pertinent to King's books but its interesting none the less:

If the Census Bureau has it right, the 300 millionth American entered the United States kicking and screaming this morning. The odds are that this milestone American is a boy, born to a white family in a California suburb. He will have a 1-in-4 shot of graduating from college, will probably marry, father two children, struggle with his weight, and live to see his 85th birthday.

What he will probably not have -- that his grandfather likely did -- is a pair of blue eyes.

Once a hallmark of the boy and girl next door, blue eyes have become increasingly rare among American children. Immigration patterns, intermarriage, and genetics all play a part in their steady decline. While the drop-off has been a century in the making, the plunge in the past few decades has taken place at a remarkable rate.

About half of Americans born at the turn of the 20th century had blue eyes, according to a 2002 Loyola University study in Chicago. By mid-century that number had dropped to a third. Today only about one 1 of every 6 Americans has blue eyes, said Mark Grant, the epidemiologist who conducted the study...

Ive got green eyes and diem has blue eyes, we should spawn a mini-race of colourist children!

That was a really interesting article! I have light blue eyes myself and have always loved them. Now that they're becoming more and more rare, I like them even more.

[Bethany]

Genetically speaking, blue eyes and hazel eyes are the same. Just thought I'd throw that in since I've spent the past 15 years explaining to people how two hazels produced three pairs of startlingly blue eyes.

[ZoNeSeeK]

Yeah they ar, hazel and green eyes are actually blue eyes underneath with alot of flecks of yellow over the top. My eyes are "cesspool green" as diem says, so theyre kinda khaki or something, but looking close they are actually blue with lots of specks over the top. Weird, eh

[Bethany]

Now these are blue eyes:

[ZoNeSeeK]

BETHANYS ARYAN ARMY!

[sarajean]

BETHANYS ARYAN ARMY!

/me has one, too.

3 blonde haired, blue eyed boys came from 2 green eyed parents.