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It By Stephen King Compare And Contrast

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“Differences and changes have to be made in order to make something better.” The book IT by Stephen King shows this statement. Especially when comparing the book to both of the movies. When reading this book and watching the movies the person doing so can see there are drastic differences. Such as the children's fears, the time period of the setting, as well as the flashbacks. There weren’t only differences there were some similarities as well like the opening scene and the overall theme of the book. As a whole, there were definitely more differences. To start off, in the book as well as both movies all three had pretty much the exact same opening scene. It started with the boat that George had made with his sick older brother Bill. The water was too fast and George couldn’t catch up to it. That is when the paper boat floated down into the sewer. This is when George meets the killer clown, he didn’t know would be the cause of his death. This is how all three start off. They meet the same way and George still ends up dying. …show more content…

One possible theme for this story line is “Working together to face your fears.” In the book as well as the movies you can see the main characters working together to overcome each personal fear. The clown Pennywise tries to beat them with their own personal fears thinking that the others will/can not help the others.They end up proving him wrong throughout each of the timelines. In each one the reader/watcher can see the protagonists overcome what is thrown at them by the antagonist and it’s thanks to all of them working

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