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But the sex comes after they've defeated IT, and they are trying to find their way out of the tunnel.
Oh good lord, so it did. Well, that proves it's way past time for a re-read.
But I think the whole struggle with IT in the tunnels and that whole summer were a loss of innocence. The sex scene was not necessary to symbolize that, in my opinion, and it was too jarring and strange and added nothing for me.
Someone actually explained this above, and it was explained to me as thus. To face IT, only a child could enter his realm. Even later in the books when they tried to ed IT once and for all, they had to become basically "childish" all over again. At the time of the sex scene, to escape from IT's clutches, they needed to stop being children. They had to be adults. Look at our culture, and the vernacular used. When a male has sex, it's referred to as the woman "making him into a man!" It is the single act that is universally seen as the act that changes one from a child to an adult in every single culture. So the sex, while seemingly hella out of place, is actually the only thing a child would likely think of to become an "adult", especially after Bev's father cut her down and used this possibility as a weapon to hurt her.
No, it seems as though King could only think of sex as a loss of innocence instead of being the creative author he's supposed to be.
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Jan 04, 2014 05:33PM
But the sex comes after they've defeated IT, and they are trying to find their way out of the tunnel.
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Oh good lord, so it did. Well, that proves it's way past time for a re-read.
No, it didn't. As children, they did not defeat It. It came back, and they had to return (minus two Losers) in order to defeat It.
But I think the whole struggle with IT in the tunnels and that whole summer were a loss of innocence. The sex scene was not necessary to symbolize that, in my opinion, and it was too jarring and strange and added nothing for me.
Someone actually explained this above, and it was explained to me as thus. To face IT, only a child could enter his realm. Even later in the books when they tried to ed IT once and for all, they had to become basically "childish" all over again. At the time of the sex scene, to escape from IT's clutches, they needed to stop being children. They had to be adults. Look at our culture, and the vernacular used. When a male has sex, it's referred to as the woman "making him into a man!" It is the single act that is universally seen as the act that changes one from a child to an adult in every single culture. So the sex, while seemingly hella out of place, is actually the only thing a child would likely think of to become an "adult", especially after Bev's father cut her down and used this possibility as a weapon to hurt her.
No, it seems as though King could only think of sex as a loss of innocence instead of being the creative author he's supposed to be.
