It by Stephen King
Greetings from Derry, Maine. It’s a tiny city, one that feels eerily similar to your own hometown. The haunting only happens in Derry.
When they first discovered the tragedy, they were seven teenagers. Now that they are adults, both sexes have ventured into the outside world in an effort to find success and pleasure. They must meet together at the same location where, as teens, they fought an evil beast that preyed on the city’s youngsters because of a promise they made twenty-eight years prior. As they get ready to fight the monster hiding in Derry’s sewers once more, children are being murdered once more, and their suppressed memories of that horrible summer come back.
It by Stephen King
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Over the past 15 years, I’ve read a lot of Stephen King’s books, and before that, I’d read a number of his short tales. With his extraordinary attention to detail, sense of place, and capacity to gradually reveal the main line of a story’s storyline, King has consistently deeply impressed me. He is also the Jedi Master of creepiness, of course. It’s more than just a big-budget horror story, in my opinion; it’s also a stirring journey of friendship, belonging, adolescence, and love. The story follows a group of young pre-teens growing up in the small Maine town of Derry from the late 1950s to the middle of the 1980s.
These young people were thrown together by fate and circumstance to form a fundamental connection upon which are built not only all of their intense and complex interpersonal relationships but, ultimately, their shared commitment to face an unearthly monster that has, for generations, stalked and murdered Derry’s residents —- especially children. The “Losers’ Club” members’ showdown with It draws nearer as they get to know one another better, become playmates, and develop the intense and sincere loyalty and protectiveness toward one another that is so typical of young children. Of course, the Losers’ Club’s enemies, the title antagonist of the novel are eventually the most terrifying.
What childhood, though, wouldn’t be complete without the unwanted attention of bullies at school? A group of lads several years older and larger than our young heroes frequently try to corner the “Losers” while they are alone or at least outnumbered in Derry. This group is led by Henry Bowers, a seething, dangerously enraged son of a poor local farmer. The Losers’ Club’s lovable misfits make their way through a strange summer of 1958, a season of strange and frightful revelations, under the mostly silent leadership of “Stuttering” Bill Denbrough, learning more and more about Derry’s many untold secrets as they open up more and more about themselves, our quirks, and our fears to one another.
With his fear, fury, and remorse over the horrific death of his younger brother Georgie, another of Its victims, Bill is unquestionably the group’s driving force. The Losers’ Club manages to (largely) avoid Bowers and his band of thuggish louts thanks to Bill’s frequent taking of the initiative.
