Here we've come to the last historical interlude post, where Mike Hanlon ruminates on Derry's dark past. This isn't a breather before the final finish: this is one bloody gasp before the screaming starts.
Mike interviews Egbert Thoroughgood, a logger who witnessed multiple slayings at The Silver Dollar saloon. Hmm, silver dollars again. Silver, monster killing, silver dollars. Nice, Stephen King.
In gory detail he recounts the events of the summer of 1905 where some unionizing loggers were horribly murdered (by humans, no doubt encouraged by IT). Claude Heroux, the one who escaped spent the summer burning the forest, and eventually walking into the saloon and slaying the (presumed) killers with his ax.
The strange part of this (strange even for Derry) is that the bar was FULL of other loggers drinking. Loggers who had been hunting Claudefor months ignored the screaming and the blood. They could see it, but as Thoroughgood said, it didn't seem to matter; it was like politics, and best left to people who understood political things.
This didn't stop those same loggers from lynching Claude a few hours later when IT allowed the fog to lift.
Mike's takeaway from this segment (set before the made the calls to the others) is that IT feeds on emotions, fear and faith, not physical bodies. IT may eat the bodies, but what gives IT power is raw emotion. He begins to question if, as adults, the Losers can muster the faith needed to kill IT.
What follows in the next chapters are the parallel stories of the past and present Losers being driven into the sewers for the penultimate and ultimate battles with IT. They are hard segments, and we lose some good (and terrible) characters along the way.
Buckle up.
Mike interviews Egbert Thoroughgood, a logger who witnessed multiple slayings at The Silver Dollar saloon. Hmm, silver dollars again. Silver, monster killing, silver dollars. Nice, Stephen King.
In gory detail he recounts the events of the summer of 1905 where some unionizing loggers were horribly murdered (by humans, no doubt encouraged by IT). Claude Heroux, the one who escaped spent the summer burning the forest, and eventually walking into the saloon and slaying the (presumed) killers with his ax.
The strange part of this (strange even for Derry) is that the bar was FULL of other loggers drinking. Loggers who had been hunting Claudefor months ignored the screaming and the blood. They could see it, but as Thoroughgood said, it didn't seem to matter; it was like politics, and best left to people who understood political things.
This didn't stop those same loggers from lynching Claude a few hours later when IT allowed the fog to lift.
Mike's takeaway from this segment (set before the made the calls to the others) is that IT feeds on emotions, fear and faith, not physical bodies. IT may eat the bodies, but what gives IT power is raw emotion. He begins to question if, as adults, the Losers can muster the faith needed to kill IT.
What follows in the next chapters are the parallel stories of the past and present Losers being driven into the sewers for the penultimate and ultimate battles with IT. They are hard segments, and we lose some good (and terrible) characters along the way.
Buckle up.
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