In the year of 1957, a sick older brother lends his younger brother a paper boat. Overjoyed, the young Georgie Denbrough runs out in the rain in his little yellow raincoat with the paper boat. He sets the boat in a puddle which takes it down a stream and he watches it until it stops, swirls, and then falls into a gutter. Fortunately, the boy’s paper boat is picked up by the enigmatic clown known as Pennywise who, interestingly enough, lives in the sewers. A moment that many avid horror fans would never forget, Georgie reaches for the boat and Pennywise suddenly bites the boy’s arm off. As a fountain of blood spurts out of Georgie’s wound, he dies slowly and is dragged into the sewer with his boat. Now hellbent on revenge, Bill Denbrough allies himself with a ragtag team of “losers” who all share the same trauma of the clown.
Within IT, readers are taught to conquer their fears when face to face with them. The losers are thrusted towards their worst nightmares by the clown and are forced to overcome them in a short amount of time to beat the clown. It also provides the generic “friends are important” message as the group of losers would have most likely been eaten by the clown had they not joined together. Despite the absence of a certain clown, in day to day life it is still important to overcome your fears because fear is a mental block in your mind that prevents you from moving forward.
IT was an interesting read that usually kept me hooked as the novel progressed. The pacing is slow but Stephen King’s unique writing style easily makes up for it. The author would usually leave the readers in the dark with his vague writing but the sense of fear was always present throughout the novel even when the mood was light because the readers were always made aware that Pennywise was lurking about at all times. The suspense was overbearing at times and you could feel the fear of the characters as the hunt continued. Overall, if you are interested in horror, IT is definitely worth your time. It’s always interesting and will improve your reading and perhaps allow you to understand more difficult novels. Unfortunately for the younger avid horror fans, I would not recommend the novel. The book is incredibly long which may bore the younger fans and the writing is very advanced so you may not understand it the way Stephen King intended.
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