Stephen King’s It Review Sample

How did Stephen King create the character of It (Pennywise, Bob Gray) in “It”?

1 day a great writer went home. His road passes through the bridge; old boards were crackling with every step and he remembered the old tale. Here, right now, he'd hear a voice: “Who is on my bridge?! ” By the time our writer got home, he previously already known that there is something inside it. That is how one of the greatest novels was born – under the creaking of boards!

The small town as a type of the universe and Great Evil ruling the souls of its inhabitants, the magic of childhood opposes the cruel rationalism of the adult world. Every one of these images are gently gathered in one book. Each scene is depicted so vividly and the reader can lose touch with reality and find himself in those places. The characters are portrayed via a prism of Absolute Evil. But the definite answer is given – there is no Absolute Evil. For every single person any evil is absolute in terms of him (C. Cowden, 2014).

The Absolute Evil is Mrs. Kaspbrak, Eddie’s mother, who consciously inspires her son that he is sick. The Absolute Evil is Mrs. Hensk, Biao’s mother, who consciously overfeeds the son to a condition of a fat pig that's fraught with humiliations and mockeries. But what woman who works all day long may do? She can just only replace her mother’s love by some cakes and pies. The Absolute Evil is Mr. Marsh. The unrealized pedophile beating the daughter. Well, and what still to complete to it? After all that he doesn’t wish to beat her, he desires to show his tenderness, but can’t allow it. The Absolute Evil is Henry Bauers. Sadist, psychopath, maniac. The Absolute Evil could be the Tom Rogan beating the wife (and not only her) (J. Smythe, 2013).

And perhaps it sounds pathetic, but each of us is a portal of absolute evil nowadays. And it’s not the devil along with other religious turbidity. The fact is if we have a tendency to justify for themselves the evil that people can do (or done)? And when so – then we will have the same degradation as Henry’s, as March’s, as Rogan’s. And they have the common ending. The novel is about the inner monster that lives in everybody.

Works Cited

King, Stephen “It”, 1986, Viking.
Cowden, Catarina “Why Stephen King Is Finally Letting His Novel It Become A Movie”, 2014.
Smythe, James “Rereading Stephen King, chapter 21: It”, 2013.