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re: So...got to the sex scene in "IT" WTF, King?
Posted on 10/17/17 at 7:50 pm to Napoleon
Posted on 10/17/17 at 7:50 pm to Napoleon
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I thought the scene fit with the major underlying theme of the book, which is the collision of childhood and adulthood in the lives of the protagonists. As adults, in order for them to have the power to confront and defeat It, they must reconnect with their childhoods and rediscover the innocence they have lost in growing up. As children, in order to escape It, which they have wounded but not killed, and which exercises a special and terrible power over children, they must enter the world of adulthood - they must sacrifice their innocence in the most final way they can imagine. In both cases they use the awesome and awful magic of Change against a being to whom the idea of change is an alien concept. And indeed they are changed as a result - as children they drift apart into the adult world and forget, and as adults they remember things long forgotten.
I thought the scene fit with the major underlying theme of the book, which is the collision of childhood and adulthood in the lives of the protagonists. As adults, in order for them to have the power to confront and defeat It, they must reconnect with their childhoods and rediscover the innocence they have lost in growing up. As children, in order to escape It, which they have wounded but not killed, and which exercises a special and terrible power over children, they must enter the world of adulthood - they must sacrifice their innocence in the most final way they can imagine. In both cases they use the awesome and awful magic of Change against a being to whom the idea of change is an alien concept. And indeed they are changed as a result - as children they drift apart into the adult world and forget, and as adults they remember things long forgotten.
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Posted on 10/21/17 at 1:03 am to JawjaTigah
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And then I have to wonder about Bev and her true motivation for offering herself up for this
Bev is terrified of sex and womanhood. There are rumors that she's a slut that cause people to treat her badly. Her abusive father has tried to convince her that men only see her as a sex object.
She takes this thing, sex, that everyone has told her is dirty and violent and bad and out of her control, something that will be done *to* her not with her, something that will lower her value as a person/woman, and she makes it something good, something pure, something that she controls and that gives her power, freedom, kinship, and yes, pleasure.
I don't think it was a necessary scene, but thematically it makes a lot of sense. Adolescence is an uncomfortable time. There is an inherent friction between childhood and adulthood and King was willing to attempt to address that friction head-on. It's the exact opposite of the sterile, fairy tale adolescence you see in young adult fiction (Harry Potter being the cream of the "no teenager would EVER act like this" crop).
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