Riddle me this - (mind you, I'm only 200+ pages into the final book, but I've brought this topic up with my boyfriend who has read the whole thing and I don't believe I'll be opening up too many spoilers or jumping ahead of myself by posting this here)...
In this final book and mostly in the begginning of the story when Jake and the others of the ka-tet reunite at the Pigs Den, Jake stops for a minute to collect himself and is sad because he realizes that Father Callahan's Death is for real this time with the Vampires, and when he shot himself. He is is upset because he won't be coming back.
- But Why? Jake of all people knows that there "are other worlds than these" & has come back himself twice, to relive. So why does he believe this. My boyfriend says, indeed Callahan's story end's there, but it is weird that Jake of all people would think this way when he knows himself that death is not permanent.
My idea was that maybe it was because Callahan was killed in one of the Real Worlds (one of the mirror real worlds)... but wasn't Jake killed in one of the Real Worlds the first time when he was pushed in front of the car too? Or was that close to the real world, but a little off, because that was the same one Eddie Dean came from where his Brooklyn was different from the Real World? if my memory serves me correctly...
I understand that maybe it was Stephen Kings way to just let him fade out of the story but I just don't see why he'd have a character like Jake reflecting like this when Jake knows himself that life after death is extremely possible.