You'd think with the 13th part of this series, I'd get down to something really scary, right?
Bill takes a cab ride to have lunch with the surviving losers, and there's a lot of talk about how Ben lost the weight, how Ritchie's vasectomy reversed itself, and about how nine children have been murdered by IT.
The section starts with Bill getting a call from Mike about lunch where Mike advises him that Stan is dead. He waits until the lunch to let everyone know it was a suicide, but Bill already suspects IT as a culprit. Not that that's big leap at this point.
Most of this section boils down to change and similarity. Bill watches the altered streets of Derry go by, but can still spot landmarks buried beneath the exterior, much like how IT is buried below the town (both literally and figuratively, but more on that later).
The remains of the Losers club are the same: the remnants of childhood echo in their faces, and await excavation as time spent with each other goes on.
They all marvel at how the murders haven't been brought to national attention, except Mike. Mike postulates that IT feeds every 27 years or so, and in turn has made the town semi-prosperous. In turn, the citizens either leave, or sort of turn a blind eye (again, more on that later).
The section ends with they voting to actually kill IT this time, though without Stan it may not even be possible. In the Mini-series Ritchie holds out until the end, but here he agrees pretty quickly. As they agree to walk around town, their fortune cookies explode into gouts of blood, bugs, eyes, and anything else currently haunting them: IT is up to IT's old tricks.
Oh, and one other thing of note in the section: on the ride over, Bill half-heard about an escaped mental patient who was dangerous. Later, that person will turn out to be Henry Bowers. King really knew what he was doing with this one, folks.
This is the first time the adult losers join up, and for the next large chunk of the book they'll be separate again, letting IT come to them. It's a nice echo back to their childhood circumstances.
So next, we go back with Ben to the library, and see Pennywise up close. Oh boy!
Bill takes a cab ride to have lunch with the surviving losers, and there's a lot of talk about how Ben lost the weight, how Ritchie's vasectomy reversed itself, and about how nine children have been murdered by IT.
SPOILERS
The section starts with Bill getting a call from Mike about lunch where Mike advises him that Stan is dead. He waits until the lunch to let everyone know it was a suicide, but Bill already suspects IT as a culprit. Not that that's big leap at this point.
Most of this section boils down to change and similarity. Bill watches the altered streets of Derry go by, but can still spot landmarks buried beneath the exterior, much like how IT is buried below the town (both literally and figuratively, but more on that later).
The remains of the Losers club are the same: the remnants of childhood echo in their faces, and await excavation as time spent with each other goes on.
They all marvel at how the murders haven't been brought to national attention, except Mike. Mike postulates that IT feeds every 27 years or so, and in turn has made the town semi-prosperous. In turn, the citizens either leave, or sort of turn a blind eye (again, more on that later).
The section ends with they voting to actually kill IT this time, though without Stan it may not even be possible. In the Mini-series Ritchie holds out until the end, but here he agrees pretty quickly. As they agree to walk around town, their fortune cookies explode into gouts of blood, bugs, eyes, and anything else currently haunting them: IT is up to IT's old tricks.
Oh, and one other thing of note in the section: on the ride over, Bill half-heard about an escaped mental patient who was dangerous. Later, that person will turn out to be Henry Bowers. King really knew what he was doing with this one, folks.
SAFE
This is the first time the adult losers join up, and for the next large chunk of the book they'll be separate again, letting IT come to them. It's a nice echo back to their childhood circumstances.
So next, we go back with Ben to the library, and see Pennywise up close. Oh boy!
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