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.