When Ted first meets Jake Chambers, in The Dark Tower: Book VII, he thinks Jake is Bobby Garfield, for a few seconds, until he notices some differences.This plays into the theory that Bobby and Jake are actually Twinners.

Bobby Garfield refers to 'other worlds than this' which reflects Jake Chambers when he says 'there are other worlds than these.' Roland Deschain and Ted play a father-figure role with Jake saying this line as Roland is about to lose him, whereas Bobby says it when he's about to lose Ted.The lost pet posters play an integral part, but they also capitalize on human weaknesses to capture Ted. Also in Hearts in Atlantis, we get one of the best pictures of how the low-men operate, in any of Stephen King's works.Carol Gerber meets this man who takes in young and angry kids. There is also a brief mention of Walter O'Dim, operating under the name of Raymond Fiegler.It is revealed then that he is one of the most powerful Breakers so the can-toi's pursuit of him in Hearts in Atlantis is logical. He becomes an important character in The Dark Tower. Hearts in Atlantis introduces the character of Ted Brautigan.He finds Carol and a baseball glove sent to him by Ted. Bobby returns to Harwich for Sully's funeral.Sully attends a funeral of a fellow soldier and reflects on the events that happened in Vietnam.He goes blind everyday and begs for money. Willie Shearman performs penance for the things he did in Vietnam and to Carol Gerber.Carol leaves school to join the movement full-time and Riley barely manages to pass despite continuing to play Hearts. Carol and Peter Riley join the peace movement. Their grades drop and the students are in danger of failing out and being drafted. A bunch of college students in Maine become addicted to the game of Hearts.

Ted is taken by the low men to act as a Breaker. Bobby's mom comes to believe that Ted is a child molester and turns Ted over to the low men. Bobby sees the lost pet posters that he is supposed to tell Ted about, but doesn't because he doesn't want to lose Ted. He befriends a boy named Bobby Garfield and his two friends, John 'Sully' Sullivan and Carol Gerber.

Ted Brautigan arrives in Harwich, Connecticut while on the run from the low men.

The stories are set in Vietnam War-era United States. Everything's Eventual Hearts in Atlantis is a 1999 collection of short stories by Stephen King.

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