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could someone please explain for those who have not read it?
The characters are young kids, like 13ish I think. The book ends with them getting lost in the sewer, and they somehow decide they have to have sex to escape. The 3 boys take turns on the 1 girl, with the sex described from the girls person. Then they leave the sewer.
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They were 11
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She describes it in way more detail than you'd ever want
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It was supposed to be them going from innocent kids towards adulthood, so Pennywise would no longer want to eat them. And it is how they find their way back out.
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It was written towards the tail end of his over decade long alcohol and cocaine binge(he doesn't remember writing several of the books in that period, especially Cujo)
- ew
- so what did they do for the movie?
It gets worse.
Her dad is implied to want to abuse her, and she feels empowered after unbuckling one of their pants after he initially doesn't want to do it, since she's doing it on "her terms". And he starts crying afterwards. The whole thing is real fucked up.
Understandably both the miniseries and movies ignore and skip that whole thing.
- it had nothing to do with escaping pennywayse they were lost iN the sewers after they thought they'd killed him
The sexual act connected childhood and adulthood. It's another version of the glass tunnel that connects the children's library and the adult library.
-Stephen King
The book even specified that the intent was for them to be together and unified as a group again, like they had to be for the fight. And they instantly remember the way out after they're finished. Just because they don't spell out that their explicit intent was to escape him by having sex, doesn't exclude that meaning.
Except It eats adults. It just goes primarily after kids because it's easier to drive them to terror (adult fears are more complex)
Becoming adults won't give them an escspe from Its predations - the whole adults storythread wouldn't exist if it did.
It just goes primarily after kids because it’s easier to drive them to terror (adult fears are more complex)
They weakened it, and did something that changed how it can interact with them by transitioning to a different state. Unifying, just like with the fight, as a way to overcome the power. That's why they remember the way out after the act. Which shows that it was literally a way for them to escape the power, at least temporarily.
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