A Review of Stephen King's The Dark Tower Book 2 The Drawing of the Three. There are some people born with a black mark on their soul. And because of this, pain and suffering become a sort of second skin, that almost feels as natural as their own. Whether a person is damned by God or by choice, is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. When it’s all said and done, the only true guiding principle in life, is to survive by any means necessary.