<Dd> Art Baker is one of the first Walkers to befriend Garraty during the Long Walk and is also one of the Musketeers . Friendly and sincere, he is the most honest character during the Walk, and is the least prone to speaking either cryptically or in metaphors . He is incredibly kind and despite the anger the Walk instills in the boys he is hesitant to actually hurt anyone . He has golden - blond hair and a childlike face . He comes from a lower - class family of undertakers in Louisiana and is mentioned to have several siblings . He is also one of the last Musketeers (aside from Garraty and McVries) to die . After a short bout of delirium, he stumbles to the ground, cutting his forehead and rupturing something internally so that he develops a severe nosebleed . Right before he is killed, he asks Garraty for a final favor if Garraty wins the Long Walk . He wants a "lead - lined" casket--a reference to an earlier conversation about Baker's late uncle, an undertaker . Garraty is sobbing and asking him to "walk a little longer" but Baker can't . He asks Garraty not to watch the soldiers shoot him, then shakes Garraty's hand, turns around, and is killed . Garraty reacts so strongly to his death that he can barely keep walking . </Dd> <Dt> Hank Olson (#70) </Dt> <Dd> From early on, Hank Olson cracks jokes and insults the other competitors . He believes he has an edge over the other walkers, having been told by the Major to "Give' em hell ." He has a somewhat friendly relationship with the Musketeers, but makes fun of Barkovitch from the very start, although he does not hate him to the degree that McVries does . He puts up a front of cockiness but is later subdued by the Walk and the possibility of his imminent death . Olson tires very early in the game, becoming a "hollow shell". Despite his exhaustion, he continues to walk, seemingly oblivious to the world . Garraty compares Olson's demeanor to that of the Flying Dutchman as he is manned even when "the entire crew is dead". Stebbins refers to Olson as a demonstration of the power of the mind to control the body, because although he has physically succumbed to fatigue, Olson can still walk . His fellow Walkers can only watch in pity and foreboding . Surprisingly, Olson outlasts the majority of the Walkers, finally making a broken admission to Garraty: "I don't . Want . To die ." A haggard mess, he at last climbs upon the halftrack, takes a rifle from a soldier and throws it over the side, and afterwards is repeatedly shot in the abdomen by the soldiers so as to inflict maximum suffering and discourage others from storming the halftrack . To the shock of his fellow Walkers, he manages to stand and walk again . Eventually, his intestines begin to spill out of his stomach, and he dies after lifting his hands to the sky and shouting "I DID IT WRONG!" </Dd> <Dt> Gary Barkovitch (#5) </Dt>

The long walk stephen king chapter 1 summary