Stephen King Theme
Every great story has at least one theme that is identifiable.There are so many amazing themes out there that it's hard for the author to just pick one. Well, in Stephen King's IT, he expresses a few different themes, including; 'Grownups are the enemy', expressing that theme by showing characters interacting with one another and the adults, 'There's always a way to fix the problem' by showing the characters, yet again, working together to kill the evil entity, and 'Leave the past behind, but never forget' by, again, showing the characters coming together to defeat the evil haunting.
The first theme that was expressed in this novel is, 'Grownups are the enemy'. King expresses this theme by showing that the children never really got through …show more content…
to their adult figures about how Pennywise the Clown was terrorizing them. They believed the adults were the enemy because they couldn't see the clown that, most likely, terrorized their parents. Maybe that's why Eddie's mother was so closed off from everybody, she just wanted Eddie to, "Come inside. . .stop playing with your silly friends,". It also would explain why Bill's parents didn't want him going into Georgie's room after he died, they didn't want him seeing what Georgie saw.
Another theme that was very important to this novel is 'There's always a way to fix the problem', that problem being the clown and the resolution being to kill it of course.
The children all banded together to kill Pennywise with a ball of silver and, "a sling shot?". They all met in the creepy sewage system and began their reign over the evil clown by having Beverly, the only girl in the group, shoot the crazy thing and send him back down to where he belongs...deeper down in the sewer. So bam, 'There's always a way to fix the problem'.
The third, and final, theme that we are going to discuss is 'Leave the past behind, but never forget'. King illustrated this by showing all of the grown up children in their grown up environments; Beverly was a fashion designer alongside her husband, Bill became a playwright, Richie was a comedian, and Stanley (bless his soul) was a mystery. They all got called back to Maine by Mike, who became a librarian, because the strange force took another life. They left their pasts behind (granted, Bill moved all the way to England to be with his wife), but they never forgot their terrifying …show more content…
childhood.
In conclusion, the adults that were once tortured by this horrific entity, that could literally be whatever he wanted, reappeared in this grown up children's lives again, showing us the wave of theme's throughout the story by taking us from flashback to flashback. The three main theme's being 'Grownups are the enemy', 'There's always a way to fix the problem', and 'Leave the past behind but never forget'.
Every great story has at least one theme that is identifiable.There are so many amazing themes out there that it's hard for the author to just pick one. Well, in Stephen King's IT, he expresses a few different themes, including; 'Grownups are the enemy', expressing that theme by showing characters interacting with one another and the adults, 'There's always a way to fix the problem' by showing the characters, yet again, working together to kill the evil entity, and 'Leave the past behind, but never forget' by, again, showing the characters coming together to defeat the evil haunting.
The first theme that was expressed in this novel is, 'Grownups are the enemy'. King expresses this theme by showing that the children never really got through to their adult figures about how Pennywise the Clown was terrorizing them. They believed the adults were the enemy because they couldn't see the clown that, most likely, terrorized their parents. Maybe that's why Eddie's mother was so closed off from everybody, she just wanted Eddie to, "Come inside. . .stop playing with your silly friends,". It also would explain why Bill's parents didn't want him going into Georgie's room after he died, they didn't want him seeing what Georgie saw.
Another theme that was very important to this novel is 'There's always a way to fix the problem', that problem being the clown and the resolution being to kill it of course.
The children all banded together to kill Pennywise with a ball of silver and, "a sling shot?". They all met in the creepy sewage system and began their reign over the evil clown by having Beverly, the only girl in the group, shoot the crazy thing and send him back down to where he belongs...deeper down in the sewer. So bam, 'There's always a way to fix the problem'.
The third, and final, theme that we are going to discuss is 'Leave the past behind, but never forget'. King illustrated this by showing all of the grown up children in their grown up environments; Beverly was a fashion designer alongside her husband, Bill became a playwright, Richie was a comedian, and Stanley (bless his soul) was a mystery. They all got called back to Maine by Mike, who became a librarian, because the strange force took another life. They left their pasts behind (granted, Bill moved all the way to England to be with his wife), but they never forgot their terrifying
childhood.
In conclusion, the adults that were once tortured by this horrific entity, that could literally be whatever he wanted, reappeared in this grown up children's lives again, showing us the wave of theme's throughout the story by taking us from flashback to flashback. The three main theme's being 'Grownups are the enemy', 'There's always a way to fix the problem', and 'Leave the past behind but never forget'.
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The first theme that was expressed in this novel is, 'Grownups are the enemy'. King expresses this theme by showing that the children never really got through …show more content…
to their adult figures about how Pennywise the Clown was terrorizing them. They believed the adults were the enemy because they couldn't see the clown that, most likely, terrorized their parents. Maybe that's why Eddie's mother was so closed off from everybody, she just wanted Eddie to, "Come inside. . .stop playing with your silly friends,". It also would explain why Bill's parents didn't want him going into Georgie's room after he died, they didn't want him seeing what Georgie saw.
Another theme that was very important to this novel is 'There's always a way to fix the problem', that problem being the clown and the resolution being to kill it of course.
The children all banded together to kill Pennywise with a ball of silver and, "a sling shot?". They all met in the creepy sewage system and began their reign over the evil clown by having Beverly, the only girl in the group, shoot the crazy thing and send him back down to where he belongs...deeper down in the sewer. So bam, 'There's always a way to fix the problem'.
The third, and final, theme that we are going to discuss is 'Leave the past behind, but never forget'. King illustrated this by showing all of the grown up children in their grown up environments; Beverly was a fashion designer alongside her husband, Bill became a playwright, Richie was a comedian, and Stanley (bless his soul) was a mystery. They all got called back to Maine by Mike, who became a librarian, because the strange force took another life. They left their pasts behind (granted, Bill moved all the way to England to be with his wife), but they never forgot their terrifying …show more content…
childhood.
In conclusion, the adults that were once tortured by this horrific entity, that could literally be whatever he wanted, reappeared in this grown up children's lives again, showing us the wave of theme's throughout the story by taking us from flashback to flashback. The three main theme's being 'Grownups are the enemy', 'There's always a way to fix the problem', and 'Leave the past behind but never forget'.
Every great story has at least one theme that is identifiable.There are so many amazing themes out there that it's hard for the author to just pick one. Well, in Stephen King's IT, he expresses a few different themes, including; 'Grownups are the enemy', expressing that theme by showing characters interacting with one another and the adults, 'There's always a way to fix the problem' by showing the characters, yet again, working together to kill the evil entity, and 'Leave the past behind, but never forget' by, again, showing the characters coming together to defeat the evil haunting.
The first theme that was expressed in this novel is, 'Grownups are the enemy'. King expresses this theme by showing that the children never really got through to their adult figures about how Pennywise the Clown was terrorizing them. They believed the adults were the enemy because they couldn't see the clown that, most likely, terrorized their parents. Maybe that's why Eddie's mother was so closed off from everybody, she just wanted Eddie to, "Come inside. . .stop playing with your silly friends,". It also would explain why Bill's parents didn't want him going into Georgie's room after he died, they didn't want him seeing what Georgie saw.
Another theme that was very important to this novel is 'There's always a way to fix the problem', that problem being the clown and the resolution being to kill it of course.
The children all banded together to kill Pennywise with a ball of silver and, "a sling shot?". They all met in the creepy sewage system and began their reign over the evil clown by having Beverly, the only girl in the group, shoot the crazy thing and send him back down to where he belongs...deeper down in the sewer. So bam, 'There's always a way to fix the problem'.
The third, and final, theme that we are going to discuss is 'Leave the past behind, but never forget'. King illustrated this by showing all of the grown up children in their grown up environments; Beverly was a fashion designer alongside her husband, Bill became a playwright, Richie was a comedian, and Stanley (bless his soul) was a mystery. They all got called back to Maine by Mike, who became a librarian, because the strange force took another life. They left their pasts behind (granted, Bill moved all the way to England to be with his wife), but they never forgot their terrifying
childhood.
In conclusion, the adults that were once tortured by this horrific entity, that could literally be whatever he wanted, reappeared in this grown up children's lives again, showing us the wave of theme's throughout the story by taking us from flashback to flashback. The three main theme's being 'Grownups are the enemy', 'There's always a way to fix the problem', and 'Leave the past behind but never forget'.
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