I.T. by Stephen King
1. One of the themes from Stephen King’s phenomenal novel, I.T., is childhood trauma and how it can affect you as an adult. This is backed up when one of the characters, Eddie, is packing to leave when he remembers something, “He remembered something else then…or rather the ghost of his mother…who still spoke frequently” (King, 89). So when he remembers something the only thing that comes into his mind is his overly protective mother, who ruined most things for him because she said he was “fragile” and lied to him by telling him he had asthma, speaking to him.
2. Bill is a main contributor to the development of the story because he is the leader of the loser’s club, is the one who has them promise to come back if IT comes …show more content…
The chapter that best supports the theme selected is chapter 3. This is the chapter where all but one of the members, Mike, of the loser’s club, the gang who fought IT 30 years ago, saw it again and remembered his promise and informed everyone that IT had returned. Upon hearing of the return of IT everyone started to remember what they had done that some 30 years ago, because they all forgot about it, which all came to the aid of Mike, except one. Stanley heard of the news that IT was back, and it drove him mad, to the point of suicide. On page 59 King wrote, “He had slit his inner forearms open from wrist to the crook of the elbow...” (King, 59). Now some could say that Stanly didn’t do it because of IT, but it clearly states that the last word he wrote on the floor in blood was the word IT. On the same page King says, "...and then had crossed each of these cuts just below the Bracelets of fortune, making a pair of capital T’s” (King,59). Then a picture is shown of the word …show more content…
For this part chapter 1 will be used. This is a very iconic scene where George was sailing his boat when it went into the storm drain and Pennywise spoke to George for the first time, but it is being told from the perspective of Dave Gardener, the first one to find George seconds after his death. “I was sitting at home when I noticed that boy whose father ran the company working on the storm drain from the flood, Georgie I think. He was sailing a little, paper boat that unfortunately drifted off course and went into the sewer drain. He looked worried so I figured I would try to help him but then it looked like he was talking to somebody in the sewers and he looked even more worried and then happy, I became very worried, so I hurried off and got dressed and as I was putting on my rain jacket I heard a scream not too far away. I ran out the door as fast as I could and as soon I got to him I heard a growl from the sewers and then a sound as if it was fleeing, guessed I scared it off I thought, then as I looked down my heart stopped for what felt like hours, the boy was missing an arm and blood flowed at a simultaneous rate as the water rushing into the sewer drain, where he was attacked, or so it appeared. I quickly ran inside and called for help and then the parents of the boy. When we got to the medical center it was much too late. He was
1. One of the themes from Stephen King’s phenomenal novel, I.T., is childhood trauma and how it can affect you as an adult. This is backed up when one of the characters, Eddie, is packing to leave when he remembers something, “He remembered something else then…or rather the ghost of his mother…who still spoke frequently” (King, 89). So when he remembers something the only thing that comes into his mind is his overly protective mother, who ruined most things for him because she said he was “fragile” and lied to him by telling him he had asthma, speaking to him.
2. Bill is a main contributor to the development of the story because he is the leader of the loser’s club, is the one who has them promise to come back if IT comes …show more content…
The chapter that best supports the theme selected is chapter 3. This is the chapter where all but one of the members, Mike, of the loser’s club, the gang who fought IT 30 years ago, saw it again and remembered his promise and informed everyone that IT had returned. Upon hearing of the return of IT everyone started to remember what they had done that some 30 years ago, because they all forgot about it, which all came to the aid of Mike, except one. Stanley heard of the news that IT was back, and it drove him mad, to the point of suicide. On page 59 King wrote, “He had slit his inner forearms open from wrist to the crook of the elbow...” (King, 59). Now some could say that Stanly didn’t do it because of IT, but it clearly states that the last word he wrote on the floor in blood was the word IT. On the same page King says, "...and then had crossed each of these cuts just below the Bracelets of fortune, making a pair of capital T’s” (King,59). Then a picture is shown of the word …show more content…
For this part chapter 1 will be used. This is a very iconic scene where George was sailing his boat when it went into the storm drain and Pennywise spoke to George for the first time, but it is being told from the perspective of Dave Gardener, the first one to find George seconds after his death. “I was sitting at home when I noticed that boy whose father ran the company working on the storm drain from the flood, Georgie I think. He was sailing a little, paper boat that unfortunately drifted off course and went into the sewer drain. He looked worried so I figured I would try to help him but then it looked like he was talking to somebody in the sewers and he looked even more worried and then happy, I became very worried, so I hurried off and got dressed and as I was putting on my rain jacket I heard a scream not too far away. I ran out the door as fast as I could and as soon I got to him I heard a growl from the sewers and then a sound as if it was fleeing, guessed I scared it off I thought, then as I looked down my heart stopped for what felt like hours, the boy was missing an arm and blood flowed at a simultaneous rate as the water rushing into the sewer drain, where he was attacked, or so it appeared. I quickly ran inside and called for help and then the parents of the boy. When we got to the medical center it was much too late. He was