Just finished Wolves of the Calla and have two questions. Question includes spoiler.

[ccualumni]

Just started reading Stephen King's books about a year ago or so. Hard to believe that I never read him as I read a great deal.
Now that I have started reading his books, I am of course hooked.

Since starting to reading King's books, my magazines are stacking up and not getting read. Neither are any of my other books. LOL

I just finished Wolves of the Calla and have a couple of questions that I hope someone can answer for me.

1. The book talks about Slightman getting the glasses that he wears from Andy (I believe it said it was Andy). It says that he was given them to be able to see better or something like that. I am a little bit unclear of the reason the glasses matter to the story.
Here is what I think is correct: For helping, he was given the glasses to be able to see the other people better? I am not sure why that matters or why it is important.
At the end, he steps on the glasses to show he no longer is associated with the wolves?
I guess I am not sure if that is correct or if there was a deeper meaning. My assumption is that they do not know how to make glasses there.
Just something I was wondering about.

2. I guess I am looking for a yes or no answer here instead of a spoiler.....
At the end of the book, Roland states that the wolves may never attack again and that if they do, their numbers will be greatly reduced (Lesson: teach a man to fish and all of that....)
Do they ever go to the beings that need the twins to thrive and destroy them (in a later book)? The ones that created the wolves?
I kind of feel like there is unfinished business. If they made some wolves, can they make more?
My thought was that the story leads us to believe that like the creatures in the forest, there are only a certain number of wolves and once they are destroyed, they will never be replaced. I just wondered if they wanted to go destroy the beings that have taken all of the "babbies" in the past.

I hope I do not sound critical, because I am not trying to be. I think these books are amazing and the best I have ever read. These are the only books where I felt that I should not rush and read it as quickly as possible. I want them to last. It is a bit of a disappointment that I only have 2 more to go before it ends.

I just have these questions after reading the book and was hoping to see what others thought or see what the answers are.

Thanks

[GNTLGNT]

1.-The glasses IMO, were a symbol of his "defection" and the crushing of same-to show remorse for his traitorous behavior...and no, there sure weren't a lot of Lenscrafters in this part of the world...

2.-No... their numbers are finite, and now that the mechanisms of their demise and their "shroud of invulnerability" removed, no need to pursue

Welcome, we're always glad to have another traveler with us through the SK Universe...

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Welcome to the MB, and keep posting!

But do NOT open any DT threads until you've read the very last line of DT7 (The Dark Tower).

Long days and pleasant nights

[cat in a bag]

I agree with what GNTL said, just wanted to add one thing--he crushed the glasses, because he was disgusted with himself for taking them as payment for helping the Wolves, and because there was nothing more he cared to "see", after his boy was killed

Read on, and then read again, and again!!

Welcome to the board!

[Spideyman]

Read on , continue your journey. The answers that were given in the above posts speak true. An Afterthought- even though you are reading this journey slowly to savor and take it all in, sometime please take the journey again. The re read will open your eyes to even more wonders!

[ccualumni]

Thanks for the replies everyone.

[king family fan]

diffwentitly read on. For me I had to re-read to get it all and may even concider re-reading again. Also welcome to the MB. The whole Dark Towers series has been a struggle for me. It seems harder to understand.

[throne_92]

the 5th is the best book. You have got to make sure you read Salem's Lot beforehand (or before you read Wolves again) and it makes it the best book I think, since it gets things moving toward the 6th and 7th.

But Father Callahan returning makes for a heck of a book with what King already has to work with IMO.

[bobledrew]

I think of the glasses as the symbol of Slightman's lack of principle. Not only does he portray the White, but he does so for the most venial and trivial of reasons. Spectacles, a record player... You could almost have more repsect for him if he was doing it simply because he believed in the quest of Farson or the Red King or the forces of evil more generally. He was given the glasses because they were what he wanted, in the same way that in The Stand, Harold is given Nadine as his sexual toy, because that's what he wanted. There's a long history in King of people being betrayed by venial desires -- think of Under the Dome, Needful Things, Larry Crockett in Salem's Lot, etc. etc... There are countless examples of people giving in to their desires and being undone by that.

The glasses are available on the travelling riverboats, if I recall correctly, but are far beyond the reach of ranghers like Slightman.

Slightman crushes the glasses because (as he says) "he's seen enough." He's seen the Wolves fail, he's seen what he's worked for destroyed and revealed (at least to Roland), and he's seen his son, who he seems to care about killed because of it.