What do you think about Stephen King's “IT”? Stephen King’s “IT”(fiction) is about in the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids work together to defeat a shape shifting monster who mainly uses the appearance of a clown,and the worst part is the scarier you think he is the more powerful he gets. The 2 identified author strategies Stephen King uses is a large amount of imagery and repetition. Why I identified these author techniques is because after reading through Stephen King’s “IT” they both bring me to a point of complete understanding and by the end I believe it will bring you there too.
Repetition.(Body paragraph 1)
Stephen King’s It has a lot of repetition. A good example of this is “Do they float? Float? The clown’s grin widened Oh
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It held George’s arm in its thick and wormy grip, it pulled George toward that terrible darkness where the water rushed and roared and bellowed as it bore its cargo of storm debris toward the sea. George craned his neck away from that final blackness and began to scream into the rain, to scream mindlessly into the white autumn sky which curved above Derry on that day in the fall of 1957. His screams were shrill and piercing, and all up and down Witcham Street people came to their windows or bolted out onto their porches.” This piece of evidence is so impactful because he explains even the smallest details to the point where you don’t even notice that you are reading, to the point where you are there watching the situation with your own eyes. A really good example of repetition again is, “And George saw the clown’s face change.
What he saw then was terrible enough to make his worst imaginings of the thing in the cellar look like sweet dreams; what he saw destroyed his sanity in one clawing stroke.” This piece of evidence shows that not only Stephen king can explain something to the point that you think you're there yourself he can explain something so well that you can feel the same feeling that Georgie felt With his situation with Pennywise the