Monday, October 27, 2008
Chapter 8 (cont)
A few days after the movies Bill was walking Richie home when he said that he wanted to kill the thing that killed his brother. Bill wanted to go to the house where Eddie saw the leper and see if "it" was still there. When Richie asked how Bill planed to kill the monster, Bill replied that he was going to steal his fathers hand gun and try to shoot it. The next day the plan went down. Bill stole his fathers gun but also brought his slingshot as backup. Bill and Richie rode double on Bill's Bike which he nick-named "Silver." When they reached the house Richie and Bill climbed under the porch where Eddie had seen the leper. There was nothing there. Bill spotted a basement window and climbed in determined on getting revenge for his brother's death. Richie climbed in after Bill, and they began to search the basement for any signs of the monster. They were just about to leave when the door leading to the basement flew open streaming light into the dark room. A pair of loafers appeared on the steps,followed by faded jeans and a pair of hands. . . except the hands weren't hands, they were paws! "It" was a werewolf! It started chasing Bill and Richie around the basement until Bill shot it with his pistol. The thing howled in pain as part of it's skull was ripped off and blood poured down the side of it's head. The boys scampered up a pile of coal used to heat the house and escaped through a window- but It didn't give up, It chased Bill and Richie all the way to Bill's bike and ran after them as they peddled away. It was fast enough to catch up to Richie and slam his head with it's paw which knocked Richie out. Bill kept peddling shouting " Hi-yo Sliver AWAY!" (Bill always said that to make the bike go faster). When Bill reached the end of the street they were on Bill chanced a look back, and what he saw made him slam on the brakes. The street was empty behind him...except for a flash of orange that was the clown suit behind the last house on the street. Bill realized that Richie was passed out and tried to wake him. Bill woke up the delirious Richie who asked what happened- but realized and started to freak out. Bill calmed him down and told him everything was alright.But Richie started to cry and soon both of the boys were sitting in the middle of the street bawling.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Chapter 8
This chapter starts out as Richie is driving back to Derry after he received the call from Mike. He passes the sign that says he's entering Derry, and all of a sudden has to stop the car because he is flooded with old memories. As he is lost in his thoughts a deer walks out into the middle of the road and Richie yells at the deer in one of his voices to get out of the road. The deer gets startled and runs away off the road. Richie starts to laugh and has no idea why, but he can't stop either. He flashes back to the day when they built the dam and the police had come to tell them to take it down. He remembered how Ben had stepped forward and told the police man that it was all his fault that the dam had flooded all the way up to the town, and how Bill had also stepped forward and said that it was his idea also and one by one the whole group of friends stepped forward and said it was their fault so the others would not get in trouble. The police knew what they were doing so he let them off easy and just told them to take down the dam but he also told them that they could still come down to the Barrens, as long as they came as a group, because of the murders going on.
Richie tells Bill that he wants to see the album that winked at Bill so he could believe too. One day after playing in the Barrens Richie and Bill go to Bill's house and take out the photo album. They flip through the album but when they reach the spot where the picture of Georgie was that winked at Bill, they discovered that it was gone. They stared unbelievably at the album, but then the pages started flipping by themselves! The album opened to an old picture of Derry where people where walking around. As Bill and Richie looked at the picture they noticed two people in the picture that looked just like them! The more they looked the more frightened they became and just as they were about to shut the album the picture started to move! The person that looked like Richie pointed to the canal in town and the two boys walked over to it. They were looking down when all of a sudden a clown jumped out of the canal and grabbed the boy that looked like Bill. Bill and Richie both jumped not only because of the clown but the clown also had the head of Georgie! Bill, in real life, screamed and reached for the picture but instead of touching the glossy film his hand went inside the photo! Richie and Bill both screamed again and as Bill withdrew his hand he became aware of an excruciating pain in his hand. Bill looked at his hand and it looked like he had been attacked by a razor blade. Bill nor Richie told their parents about the incident.
A few days after the album incident Richie invited Ben to go to the movies with him. On his way to the theatre Richie saw Beverly Marsh sitting on a bench eating ice cream. When Richie said hello he noticed Bev had a fresh bruise on her cheek. He felt bad but he also admired her looks so he asked her to go with him to the movies. When they got to the theatre Ben was nowhere to be found. All of a sudden he came jogging around the corner and explained that he had seen Henry Bowers and his goons going into the theatre so he kept out of sight. When Ben saw Bev he started to blush because he had a crush on her. Once inside the theatre the group sat far away from Bowers' gang to keep out of trouble, but as the movie ended Bowers caught sight of Ben and Richie as they were leaving. Ben decided to go out the side door so they wouldn't see Henry, but they were out smarted. Bowers was waiting for the group in the alley where the side door let out. Ben shuddered and tried to go the other way but it was a dead end. Bowers starting running at Ben to beat him up but Bev stood in his way. Bowers mearly pushed her aside. As Bowers ran by, Richie stuck out his foot and bowers hit the Pavement hard. The group of three ran to the Barrens were they knew they would be safe. While they were there Bill showed up with a friend of his from his speech therapy class. Bill had a speech impediment that made him studder uncontrollably when he talked. From the look on Bill's eyes he accepted Bev into the group of friends but the boy that he had brought with him was not going to be with the group of friends. He may come back once or twice but he didn't see the clown or whatever "it" was.
Richie tells Bill that he wants to see the album that winked at Bill so he could believe too. One day after playing in the Barrens Richie and Bill go to Bill's house and take out the photo album. They flip through the album but when they reach the spot where the picture of Georgie was that winked at Bill, they discovered that it was gone. They stared unbelievably at the album, but then the pages started flipping by themselves! The album opened to an old picture of Derry where people where walking around. As Bill and Richie looked at the picture they noticed two people in the picture that looked just like them! The more they looked the more frightened they became and just as they were about to shut the album the picture started to move! The person that looked like Richie pointed to the canal in town and the two boys walked over to it. They were looking down when all of a sudden a clown jumped out of the canal and grabbed the boy that looked like Bill. Bill and Richie both jumped not only because of the clown but the clown also had the head of Georgie! Bill, in real life, screamed and reached for the picture but instead of touching the glossy film his hand went inside the photo! Richie and Bill both screamed again and as Bill withdrew his hand he became aware of an excruciating pain in his hand. Bill looked at his hand and it looked like he had been attacked by a razor blade. Bill nor Richie told their parents about the incident.
A few days after the album incident Richie invited Ben to go to the movies with him. On his way to the theatre Richie saw Beverly Marsh sitting on a bench eating ice cream. When Richie said hello he noticed Bev had a fresh bruise on her cheek. He felt bad but he also admired her looks so he asked her to go with him to the movies. When they got to the theatre Ben was nowhere to be found. All of a sudden he came jogging around the corner and explained that he had seen Henry Bowers and his goons going into the theatre so he kept out of sight. When Ben saw Bev he started to blush because he had a crush on her. Once inside the theatre the group sat far away from Bowers' gang to keep out of trouble, but as the movie ended Bowers caught sight of Ben and Richie as they were leaving. Ben decided to go out the side door so they wouldn't see Henry, but they were out smarted. Bowers was waiting for the group in the alley where the side door let out. Ben shuddered and tried to go the other way but it was a dead end. Bowers starting running at Ben to beat him up but Bev stood in his way. Bowers mearly pushed her aside. As Bowers ran by, Richie stuck out his foot and bowers hit the Pavement hard. The group of three ran to the Barrens were they knew they would be safe. While they were there Bill showed up with a friend of his from his speech therapy class. Bill had a speech impediment that made him studder uncontrollably when he talked. From the look on Bill's eyes he accepted Bev into the group of friends but the boy that he had brought with him was not going to be with the group of friends. He may come back once or twice but he didn't see the clown or whatever "it" was.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Chapter 1-7
Right now I am on the eighth chapter. So far this novel has been very exciting. The beginning of the book starts out as one of the main characters, Bill Denbrough, is making a paper boat for his little brother,Georgie. What Bill didn't know is that "It" was waiting for Georgie. Georgie ran down the sidewalk following his boat in the runoff in the street unexpectedly. All of a sudden Georgie's boat fell into a storm drain. As Georgie started to cry a figure appeared in drain. It was a clown! Because Georgie was only five, he didn't see the immediate danger of a "person" in the drain. The clown said it would give the boat back but when Georgie went to reach for it the Clown ripped Georgie's arm off and Georgie bled to death in the street. The Creature that had killed Georgie now returned twenty-five years later, to feed.
Another of the main characters, Mike Hanlon, promised to stay in the town of Derry, where the characters lived as children. When It returned he called the group of childhood friends he had back to Derry to kill the thing once and for all. The First person Mike called was Stan Uris, but upon remembering what had happened twenty-five years ago, committed suicide. As he died in his bathtub from slitting his wrists Stan wrote in blood on the wall: IT. Next Mike called Richie Tozier. Richie was in Hollywood, a big star. He could imitate voices and used his talent to do his T.V. show. Richie didn't kill himself but did start vomiting went he heard the news. Next Mike called Ben Hanscom. Ben was an accomplished engineer. After he heard the news he went to the local bar and started drinking. Even though he drank tremendous amounts the bartender swore he was sober. After Ben, Mike called Eddie Kaspbrak. Eddie was a driver for famous people. Eddie still lived with his mother. When Eddie said he was going back to Derry, his mother became so worried, for she still thought of Eddie as a child. Eddie finally convinced his mother that he would be fine, so she let him go. After Mike called Eddie he called Bev Rogan, the only girl in the group. Bev was a designer who had been beaten as a child, by her father. When she got older she married a man who also beat her. She thought it was because she was used to the beatings so she went back to it. When Mike called Bev, she started packing right away. Her husband told her to stop packing and get back into bed but she wouldn't, so he started beating Bev again. That was when Bev snapped; she started fighting back and broke a glass mirror over her husbands head, and as he was bleeding on the floor, she left, for good. Lastly Mike called Bill Denbrough. Bill was an accomplished writer living in the U.K. His wife Audra couldn't believe her ears when Bill said he was going to leave to go back to the town of Derry where he grew up, where Georgie died, and where a lot of bad memories happened. Audra was more understanding than Bev's husband though and let Bill go even though he had just been asked to direct a movie based on a book he had written.
The next few chapters starting with chapter four are a series of flashbacks. The first flashback was by Ben Hanscomb. He remembered how he met Bill and Eddie one day down in the barons of the town. One day the bully of the school, Henry Bowers, asked Ben if he could cheat off of Ben's test but Ben wouldn't let him. Because Henry couldn't cheat off of Ben, he failed the test and the class.Henry swore that he would get revenge for failing the class if was the last thing he did. so he and his friends waited for Ben after school and started to beat him up. Ben somehow got away and ran to the Barrens, where he hid from Bowers. Bowers found Bill and Eddie in the Barrens, trying to look for Ben, and decided to ruin their day. Bill and Eddie were building a dam in the stream but when Bowers came he kicked the dam apart. After Bowers and his goons left Bill and Eddie alone Ben came out of hiding. Eddie was having an asthma attack and needed his inhaler. Bill asked Ben to stay with Eddie while he went to get the medicine. When Bill got back Eddie had calmed down and Ben asked hem what they were trying to do. Ben came up with a plan to build a dam and told Bill and Eddie how to do it, and the three boys quickly became friends. In the next few days they gathered all of the materials to make the dam. Once they built the dam they had flooded all of the Barons. Even the police had to come and tell them to take the dam down because it was backing up the sewer pipes. By that time Richie and Stan Uris had come down to see what all of the water was doing flooding the barons. Richie and Stan were already friends with Bill and Eddie but they didn't know Ben. Soon they were also good friends. They soon all realized that they had something to do with "it," and began telling each other of their experiences. Bill was looking at Georgie's photo albums and all of a sudden a picture of Georgie smiled and started winking at Bill. Eddie told about his experience with "it" next. He said that he had been walking by an abandoned house and a leper had lept out of the house and tried to solicit sex with eddie, and as Eddie scrambled away the leper turned into a clown and started laughing.
Another of the main characters, Mike Hanlon, promised to stay in the town of Derry, where the characters lived as children. When It returned he called the group of childhood friends he had back to Derry to kill the thing once and for all. The First person Mike called was Stan Uris, but upon remembering what had happened twenty-five years ago, committed suicide. As he died in his bathtub from slitting his wrists Stan wrote in blood on the wall: IT. Next Mike called Richie Tozier. Richie was in Hollywood, a big star. He could imitate voices and used his talent to do his T.V. show. Richie didn't kill himself but did start vomiting went he heard the news. Next Mike called Ben Hanscom. Ben was an accomplished engineer. After he heard the news he went to the local bar and started drinking. Even though he drank tremendous amounts the bartender swore he was sober. After Ben, Mike called Eddie Kaspbrak. Eddie was a driver for famous people. Eddie still lived with his mother. When Eddie said he was going back to Derry, his mother became so worried, for she still thought of Eddie as a child. Eddie finally convinced his mother that he would be fine, so she let him go. After Mike called Eddie he called Bev Rogan, the only girl in the group. Bev was a designer who had been beaten as a child, by her father. When she got older she married a man who also beat her. She thought it was because she was used to the beatings so she went back to it. When Mike called Bev, she started packing right away. Her husband told her to stop packing and get back into bed but she wouldn't, so he started beating Bev again. That was when Bev snapped; she started fighting back and broke a glass mirror over her husbands head, and as he was bleeding on the floor, she left, for good. Lastly Mike called Bill Denbrough. Bill was an accomplished writer living in the U.K. His wife Audra couldn't believe her ears when Bill said he was going to leave to go back to the town of Derry where he grew up, where Georgie died, and where a lot of bad memories happened. Audra was more understanding than Bev's husband though and let Bill go even though he had just been asked to direct a movie based on a book he had written.
The next few chapters starting with chapter four are a series of flashbacks. The first flashback was by Ben Hanscomb. He remembered how he met Bill and Eddie one day down in the barons of the town. One day the bully of the school, Henry Bowers, asked Ben if he could cheat off of Ben's test but Ben wouldn't let him. Because Henry couldn't cheat off of Ben, he failed the test and the class.Henry swore that he would get revenge for failing the class if was the last thing he did. so he and his friends waited for Ben after school and started to beat him up. Ben somehow got away and ran to the Barrens, where he hid from Bowers. Bowers found Bill and Eddie in the Barrens, trying to look for Ben, and decided to ruin their day. Bill and Eddie were building a dam in the stream but when Bowers came he kicked the dam apart. After Bowers and his goons left Bill and Eddie alone Ben came out of hiding. Eddie was having an asthma attack and needed his inhaler. Bill asked Ben to stay with Eddie while he went to get the medicine. When Bill got back Eddie had calmed down and Ben asked hem what they were trying to do. Ben came up with a plan to build a dam and told Bill and Eddie how to do it, and the three boys quickly became friends. In the next few days they gathered all of the materials to make the dam. Once they built the dam they had flooded all of the Barons. Even the police had to come and tell them to take the dam down because it was backing up the sewer pipes. By that time Richie and Stan Uris had come down to see what all of the water was doing flooding the barons. Richie and Stan were already friends with Bill and Eddie but they didn't know Ben. Soon they were also good friends. They soon all realized that they had something to do with "it," and began telling each other of their experiences. Bill was looking at Georgie's photo albums and all of a sudden a picture of Georgie smiled and started winking at Bill. Eddie told about his experience with "it" next. He said that he had been walking by an abandoned house and a leper had lept out of the house and tried to solicit sex with eddie, and as Eddie scrambled away the leper turned into a clown and started laughing.
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