Eddie sees a symbol for poison. One early review seems to say (I haven't seen it yet so I don't know) that (******SPOILER**********) And it's Ben's kiss that brings her back. The Bradley Gang could have been stopped with a lesser degree of violence if the townspeople had been less bloodthirsty. The Losers (a group of kids at this point in the book) go into the sewers and confront Pennywise/It. Library Journal’s 1986 review didn’t mention the scene at all.

The scene would have been a little easier on the stomach if all of this had been spelled out a bit more. More than an hour later, Bill senses something is wrong with Mike. I was so disappointed, because Pennywise looked amazing and I had such high hopes. It's both literal and figurative, the way things work in IT: You might be able to do something good, but in order to do it, you're going to have to make your way through the sewer. While I don’t always buy the “changing times” argument...the little I found from 1986 does kinda agree with King. Something very akin to the sex scene happens at least two other times in the book.

Yes, once I read King's explanation of it, I got it. The grown ups don't remember their childhood. Stephen Kings answer to why that scene was there. However, that seems to be a theme of the book. This is what a kid hopes his parents think about him, not what a parent actually thinks about their kids. But, swap to current times, and it’s virtually impossible to find a review that fails to mention the scene. Richie's weak punch finishes off the eye because it is Richie's personal fear.

The others comfort him. I thought it got kind of tedious towards the end, especially with the sex scene between adult Bev and Bill.

I can buy that.” These aren’t real kids, they’re the kids we all wish we could have been.Good taste and Stephen King have never really been on speaking terms, and you get the impression that he agrees with John Waters that “Good taste is the enemy of art.” Nowhere is this more apparent than in the book’s pivotal sex scene. It does work inasmuch as it demonstrates that things that feel just plain wrong are all around us all the time. It becomes irritatingly clear that Bev is something of a transdimensional sex doll being passed around (Ben will be the guy to take her home, King assures us). The Losers stumble past the remains of Patrick Hockstetter and are attacked by Richie's great fear, a movie monster called the Crawling Eye. Copyright © 2016. I first read the book when I was 12, and the scene, while confusing, didn't disgust me. From this point forward we're going to be pretty subjective. Even if the sex scene itself isn't taboo to you because it's not real, it's taboo and possibly dangerous because someone created it, committed it to paper, and you're here holding it in your hands.

Even if you don't think of the kids or the book as real on any level, you can't help but think, "Damn, Stephen King. This is bad. I’m not one who often says something could be dumbed down, but if this scene had been dumbed down, it would’ve been easier to understand why it was happening when it was happening and in the way it was happening. There have been dozens of articles written about the preteen gang bang over the years, some of them thoughtful like this one and some that went so far as to insinuate a less than appropriate relationship between the author and his own kids. Mike can tell Lamonica is possessed by It and is frozen with fear. It doesn’t seem to be a big deal for the reviewer. (2017, August 31). and 2.) Let’s start with the idea that we don’t really remember childhood.
Just as his characters found their memories of childhood erased when they aged into adults, King says that he barely remembers his childhood and there have been some incidents, including But its kids are a little too perfect, viewed through a soft focus haze that is a bit too luminescent and forgiving. They accomplish this by having sex with each other. The evil businessmen could have been thwarted without someone picking up an axe. And it develops a backup of that backup in Tom Rogan. Course Hero, Inc. As a reminder, you may only use Course Hero content for your own personal use and may not copy, distribute, or otherwise exploit it for any other purpose. The grown ups don't remember their childhood.

Does the sex scene work within the narrative?

No, because I had to read outside the text to understand what was going on. Not whether or not it worked. I’d be willing to argue that her act of killing ultimately steals and repurposes life force to fulfill a need to reproduce, which means that she’s mocking the process of sexual reproduction, or at least bastardizing it to achieve something she can’t do normally. It's totally cringeworthy now. Since the Losers returned to Derry, It has been focused on scaring them into leaving.

He was gay, and some guys got to joking with him. Kill It while It's small!"

The act isn’t one that’s intended to create new life – it’s meant to bond people together through time, which speaks to something we’re not quite saying about the character It when we compare It to Beverly.

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