Writing: Analyzing the Monster
“Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.” It is a stormy, rainy evening. In only a couple hours, you know you will have to go to sleep. As you look towards your window, you see the raindrops hit the window pane; The sun is dying off. The more you watch the sun go past the horizon, the more anxiety fills you. The sun looked as if it was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture. As quickly as the light came up in the morning, the quicker it dissolves into a grey, cold night. Mother says it’s time to go to bed. You obediently go brush your teeth, put on …show more content…
It’s powers can circumvent someone’s mind very easily. “Silly boy! You still think you can see "me". Ha ha. You can never see me, you can only see what your little mind can allow! Go! Now! For if you stay, you'll lose your little mind, in my deadlights. Like all the others. Like all the others.” (IT to Bill and the Losers Club (1986 novel) As an example, Bill, the main leader of “The Loser’s Club,” discovers and warns his friends that "Derry is It" and that "any place [they] go, they won't see, they won't hear, they won't know." In addition, a man involved in a gruesome murder also states, “I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly. "It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.” This hugely affects the minds of the local people who live within Derry making them indifferent about the terrible events that are taking place. Generally, it appears that the weaker willed citizens and visitors succumb to It's powerful mind control. This ability presumably has no effect on people outside Derry's boundaries. Although it’s powers are quite strong, It does have weaknesses; Courage and heart can overcome It, even in its most diabolical forms. Once the Losers have coalesced, their strong shared will and love for each other successfully overpower It and Its fiendish machinations. As Stephen King puts it, “Maybe, there aren't any such things as good or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with;
“Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.” It is a stormy, rainy evening. In only a couple hours, you know you will have to go to sleep. As you look towards your window, you see the raindrops hit the window pane; The sun is dying off. The more you watch the sun go past the horizon, the more anxiety fills you. The sun looked as if it was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture. As quickly as the light came up in the morning, the quicker it dissolves into a grey, cold night. Mother says it’s time to go to bed. You obediently go brush your teeth, put on …show more content…
It’s powers can circumvent someone’s mind very easily. “Silly boy! You still think you can see "me". Ha ha. You can never see me, you can only see what your little mind can allow! Go! Now! For if you stay, you'll lose your little mind, in my deadlights. Like all the others. Like all the others.” (IT to Bill and the Losers Club (1986 novel) As an example, Bill, the main leader of “The Loser’s Club,” discovers and warns his friends that "Derry is It" and that "any place [they] go, they won't see, they won't hear, they won't know." In addition, a man involved in a gruesome murder also states, “I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly. "It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.” This hugely affects the minds of the local people who live within Derry making them indifferent about the terrible events that are taking place. Generally, it appears that the weaker willed citizens and visitors succumb to It's powerful mind control. This ability presumably has no effect on people outside Derry's boundaries. Although it’s powers are quite strong, It does have weaknesses; Courage and heart can overcome It, even in its most diabolical forms. Once the Losers have coalesced, their strong shared will and love for each other successfully overpower It and Its fiendish machinations. As Stephen King puts it, “Maybe, there aren't any such things as good or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with;