It - Review by Calvin Dale

It

By Stephen King

Calvin Dale

            I have never experienced being mutilated and disemboweled in a shower, but writer Stephen King made it feel like I have been a countless number of times. On a rainy day in the summer of 1984, George was playing on the sidewalk with a paper boat. As it washed away down the hill toward the gutter, George chased after. It started to create a whirlpool at the entrance of the sewer drain. “There were yellow eyes in there the sort of yellow eyes he had always imagined but never actually seen down in the basement. It’s an animal, he thought incoherently, that’s all it is some animal, maybe a housecat that got stuck down there.” (King 12) After George realizes what he sees It kills him. Many years later in 1995 is where the rest of the story takes place.

            Stephen King did a magnificent job with the detail in this story. Everyone in this story has a great amount of detail behind their past and who they are. The character with the least amount of detail would probably be It that you learn about more and more throughout the book. As people disappear and bodies turn up, the plot begins to thicken, every death detailed to the color of the blood.

            The story jumps around but revolves around one town and mainly one family who has a hard time from the beginning. Mike the brother of George is probably the biggest character in the book, besides It. Mystery revolves around It and most of the characters in the book. Family and friends are a big section of this book. After George’s death many people blamed Mike for what happened along with the rest of his family but in the end his family has done nothing wrong. In the Some people think the killer is someone from the town while others think it is a sadistic demonic entity not of our world.

            Stephen King did a fantastic job with this story. There is detail in every part of the book along with deep character quality. The setting has detail and the story has a surprising ending. It has immense action, and a lot of things happen. The action in this story is amazing along with the relationships between the people running from the terror It. Everyone needs to read a book like this, it will shock you and fill you with suspense and fear. Many things jump at you in this book it will sound like a peaceful seen then bam some eerie description will come and then a horrific seen. If you want to know what happens to Mike and the rest of his family and the people in the town then you will have to read It by Stephen King yourself.