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Probably a couple of grams of coke at this point in his carrier. I agree whole heartedly with your assessment.
That scene almost stopped me from reading to the end. I know that King was trying to symbolize the unity of the group fighting Pennywise, but that was not a good way to do so. I would go as far as to say that the scene was out of line--children having sex with children portrayed as a positive thing in any context is wrong.
Besides, it wasn't all the kids having sex with each other, rather than all male kids having sex with the only girl. If the love was what mattered, if physical intimacy was necessary (and yes, why not), there were better ways to do this.
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.
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Jan 16, 2014 06:49PM
Probably a couple of grams of coke at this point in his carrier. I agree whole heartedly with your assessment.
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That scene almost stopped me from reading to the end. I know that King was trying to symbolize the unity of the group fighting Pennywise, but that was not a good way to do so. I would go as far as to say that the scene was out of line--children having sex with children portrayed as a positive thing in any context is wrong.
Besides, it wasn't all the kids having sex with each other, rather than all male kids having sex with the only girl. If the love was what mattered, if physical intimacy was necessary (and yes, why not), there were better ways to do this.
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.
