So, we start off with a fresh batch of murder: Eddie kills Henry Bowers with a broken Perrier bottle to the belly. But not before Henry re-breaks his arm!
The flips between the past and present aren't as divided here, as everyone, new and old, finds themselves falling into roles preset for them, by fate, IT, or perhaps even the Turtle.
Eddie calls Bill and as Bill is about to instruct him we flip back to past Bill instructing the others. They discuss what's happening while Bill ruminates on things. He stutters but manages to get out that no matter where they go today, IT will kill them, or have them killed. The adults won't see, and they're already halfway to being ghosts. Derry just got even more haunted.
Yeah, remember that all the way from the beginning? When Mike defined haunt as a place where an animal comes to feed? That imagery has been running along the whole of the novel, with figurative and literal ghosts. Now the children have become living ghosts, as their parents don't notice them as they make their last lunches before fleeing into the sewers. The Bowers gang is after them, throwing rocks yet again.
Ben leads them to the same pumping station he hid in the first time he was chased by Bowers. They make it into the darkness, and Bill thinks for a few moments about how they are meant to die, and none of them may ever make it out of the sewers. Of course, we know they do, but it seems impossible. They're fighting both mortal and essentially immortal forces. How can seven kids hope to defeat either?
Well, we won't find out in the next chapter, entitled 'The Circle Closes'. We'll be busy remembering that Tom and Audra exist.
Eddie calls Bill and as Bill is about to instruct him we flip back to past Bill instructing the others. They discuss what's happening while Bill ruminates on things. He stutters but manages to get out that no matter where they go today, IT will kill them, or have them killed. The adults won't see, and they're already halfway to being ghosts. Derry just got even more haunted.
Yeah, remember that all the way from the beginning? When Mike defined haunt as a place where an animal comes to feed? That imagery has been running along the whole of the novel, with figurative and literal ghosts. Now the children have become living ghosts, as their parents don't notice them as they make their last lunches before fleeing into the sewers. The Bowers gang is after them, throwing rocks yet again.
Ben leads them to the same pumping station he hid in the first time he was chased by Bowers. They make it into the darkness, and Bill thinks for a few moments about how they are meant to die, and none of them may ever make it out of the sewers. Of course, we know they do, but it seems impossible. They're fighting both mortal and essentially immortal forces. How can seven kids hope to defeat either?
Well, we won't find out in the next chapter, entitled 'The Circle Closes'. We'll be busy remembering that Tom and Audra exist.
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