George agrees, and when he puts his hand to reach for his boat, Pennywise draws him in and ends up ripping off his hand, killing him. Pennywise tries to lure George with the promise of goodies, but he refuses, then Pennywise tells him to reach out to get his boat. The clown introduces himself to George as Bob Gray, also known as Pennywise, the dancing clown. While playing, George’s boat gets washed down the drain, and he notices a clown in the drain. In October of 1957, Bill Denbrough and his brother, George make a boat as George runs off to play with it leaving a sick Bill behind. ‘It’ is a complex story that cuts and alternates two timelines and spans twenty-seven years. Spoiler alert: important details of the novel are revealed below. The group of once children now adults meet again, and decide to go after the evil that has terrorized Derry before it even existed. Twenty-seven years later, It wakes up, and Mike calls the group together for one last mission, the mission to get rid of the monster once and for all. The group then makes a promise to return if It ever showed up again.
Calling it ‘It,’ They set out on a mission, to get rid of the evil terrorizing Derry. The group comprising of Bill, Eddie, Beverly, Ben, Richie, Mike, and Stan, uncovers the secrets of an ancient evil that had always been in Derry. Set to uncover the truth behind his brother’s death, Bill goes on an investigation after encountering Pennywise in the form of George’s ghost.Īlong with six other children who also had an encounter with Pennywise in different forms, Bill forms a group known as the losers club. George goes out to play with his new boat and gets killed by a clown who called himself Pennywise. Bill, the older brother, stays at home due to being sick after the heavy rainstorm that occurred in Derry. ‘It’ begins with two brothers Bill and George making a boat so they can play with it. What makes ‘It’ so interesting is that its protagonists are 11-year-old children forced to face a monster as old as the universe itself.
The book cuts across two eras as readers experience both time eras separated by a span of twenty-seven. ‘It’ readers will find themselves in a world where a funny clown turns into a rampaging vicious killer.