Creative Evaluation of “IT” by Stephen King

The novel ""IT"" by Stephen King tends to be a very horrific book. The story revolves around a town known as Derry city where children are the primary target of the so-called the Crown that reappears after every 27 years. The book commences with heavy rain all over the Derry town forcing the residents to remain indoors (King, 2017). One afternoon it was raining heavily, and a young boy named, George was helped to make a newspaper boat by his elder brother. As we all know, children like having fun, and as a result, George one of the leading characters places his paper boat on the surface flowing water and followed it very happy. Never did George know that he was chasing his death. The boat got into a trench where the boy met the Crown who sweet talked him convinced George to take the boat but in the process, he got killed. Personally, the book scares me though I love reading it, I hate most of the chapters where children are being hunted by the Crown and get devoured.

Motivation in writing this Book

King expresses his reason for writing the IT novel, and I am now aware of some of the motivation that led to the writing of the book. King was at one time coming from lunch at a pizza emporium with his family after which their car got a problem, and they had to leave it at a dealer for fixing. Later on, after two days, the dealer called late in the afternoon at around five and King had to go for the car (King, 2017). King preferred walking towards the dealer rather than asking for a cab since it was just a few miles away. He felt lonely walking along the road at this time a thing that shows that he was terrified and this is evidenced the moment he reaches the wooden bridge along the way.

King says that the bridge produced a scaring sound while on board and he wondered what he would do if a troll called from beneath and at the very same moment he thought of writing a book on the real bridge and a real troll. He thought of a bridge as a city and a troll being something under the city causing havoc to children within the Derry city. King also thought of a corridor used to separate children and the adults in a library a place he used to live and decided that the corridor might be a bridge where children have to go through to become adults (Grixti, 2014). Considering what King encountered on his way to the dealer, I think it is what motivated him to write an IT novel trying to express the horrific thing that lies under the city with its primary objective being to massacre the town children.

The purpose of writing this book

The novel is titled as the ""IT"" where Stephen King is the author of the book. As I read the book, I realized the author had a purpose in his writings. I think King wanted to show how children are faced with problems in their fight towards adulthood. This is evidenced by the Crown targeting only the children in the city showing how difficult it is for children to attain adulthood (Grixti, 2014). Also, I think another instance that supports the argument on troubles that children face on fight towards adulthood is where the author says that there used to be a corridor in a library that separated children from adults. He says that the corridor acted like a bridge that children had to risk trip-trapping to become an adult. Therefore, I have learned that King wanted to tell how hard it is for children to pave the way to adulthood. I realised that the book was written when kids were being left alone to play out of their parent sight even at a very tender age, for instance, George was only six years when he was running after the paper boat.

Information about Stephen King

After the reading the book ""IT"" by Stephen King, I have learned that the author is one among the great known writers of literature and his work through book writing has won him some awards. Most books written by King are horrific, and in most cases trying to display the kind of fear, children have to fight in their process to adulthood. For instance, in the IT novel, the author tells of an evil thing that is haunting children within the city.

Critical elements in the novel

After reading the ""IT"" book by Stephen King, I learned of some essential themes he put across. Some of the significant ideas in the book are the element of friendship, the issue of overcoming childhood fear and also another topic is an essence where a group of people can unite and defeat evil being. The above are the primary elements that I think the author has utilised in his work.

I have witnessed significant friendship aspects in the book. For instance, considering the closeness the named children in the novel had indicates friendship that did prevails among them. They stayed together and helped one another whenever a problem arises, for example, there is a time they engaged the Pennywise in a fight making it flee. In addition, after the involved children have grown up to adult and have their families, they find one another and decide to go back to their city to find a solution on the dangerous Crown that is killing children (McFarland, 2017). Therefore, I have noted major leading elements utilised by King in his book the IT.

Furthermore, I learned of a theme to overcome fear in childhood. The seven kids faced challenges in fighting with the evil since they were the one targeted. They used to meet with the Crown now, and then they got frightened, and it reached a point such that they got used of the attack and were never afraid anymore. They could face the Crown and as a group, engage it in a fight without fear.

I addition, I have learned the strength of unity. The book talks about the seven kids who had a difficult time in an encounter with the Pennywise and their ability to unite together as friends guaranteed their victory over the evil being. A sense of unity is displayed in the instance where the Crown comes back in their old age, and they called upon themselves to go and face the Pennywise.

Conclusion

In conclusion, reading the book has imparted me with the knowledge in regards to what led King to write the IT novel. I have learned on problems the children in the IT book had to face in their process to attain adulthood. Also, I have learned the importance an intense friendship and unity among people, and it leads to overcoming a terrible situation in life as evidenced in the book where integration made the children conquer the Monster.

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