'Welcome to Derry’s' Military Storyline Completely Misses the Point of IT

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Stephen King’s IT is incredibly thematically rich. Trauma, sexuality, memory, adolescence, evil, and so much more are at play in the author’s 1000-plus page tome. Having such strong building blocks allows for metaphors to take shape and strengthen the story. Pennywise the clown, who represents the evil we face (both subtle and overt), is a great example of this. However, my favorite is how the novel deals with memory.

One of the driving aspects of the story involves Mike Hanlon reaching out to his fellow Losers to alert them that Pennywise has returned. The issue is that not only have his friends forgotten the terrifying clown, they’ve also forgotten most of their time in De

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