I recently finished Insomnia for a second time and a couple things caught my mind about this book and IT.
Ralph and Lois begin to forget everything they endured after saving the day. They occasionally feel vague pieces of memories but nothing they can ever seize on. Only when it comes time for Ralph to fulfill his promise do he and Lois begin to remember everything.
This got me to thinking about the Losers and how they all forgot what they went through as children and how they forgot again after prevailing against Pennywise as adults (Mike included this time.) Most readers (myself included) attributed this "forgetting" to the mysterious magic of the entity known as Pennywise, or maybe the way Pennywise's magic had an effect on the town. Was something else responsible for making the Losers forget? Pennywise certainly wasn't responsible for making Ralph and Lois forget. There is also the voice that was never explained in IT that Bill hears near the end of the book commending him for his victory. This also begs the question about whether the Losers' good fortune as adults came as a result of Pennywise's magic as well.
Another parallel I noticed with Derry was when it occurred to Ralph that the senior citizens in town were almost invisible. If you didn't look you wouldn't even know they were there. Yet they lived their lives and socialized and got around Derry entertaining themselves in their own sort of community. Kind of like the way the kids in Derry were invisible and how that invisibility allowed Pennywise to hunt them like prey. Invisibility that allowed Henry to go on unchecked by any sort of authority until it proved useful for Pennywise to scapegoat him.
I also wondered about Atropos' lair. I can believe Clotho and Lachesis were there for a purpose but Atropos had a home in Derry. Ralph noticed how expansive the "warehouse" underground seemed to be when he was inside the lair. Did that space go on forever and allow Atropos to emerge anywhere like some sort of closet boogeyman? I guess I'm assuming astral beings would move like humans but still, it's awfully convenient that Atropos would have his lair right there in the middle of Derry. His job is to cut the balloon strings of people in service of the Random, correct? Does this mean there are more Little Bald Doctors around the world? It never says in the book that those three are the only three but it was the feeling I got while reading.
As an aside, I don't believe IT was a female. Yes, IT had laid eggs but remember in the scene where Beverly revisits her home? Pennywise says something along the lines of "My fadder was my madder" leading me to believe IT is male AND female.
This got me to thinking about the Losers and how they all forgot what they went through as children and how they forgot again after prevailing against Pennywise as adults (Mike included this time.) Most readers (myself included) attributed this "forgetting" to the mysterious magic of the entity known as Pennywise, or maybe the way Pennywise's magic had an effect on the town. Was something else responsible for making the Losers forget? Pennywise certainly wasn't responsible for making Ralph and Lois forget. There is also the voice that was never explained in IT that Bill hears near the end of the book commending him for his victory. This also begs the question about whether the Losers' good fortune as adults came as a result of Pennywise's magic as well.
Another parallel I noticed with Derry was when it occurred to Ralph that the senior citizens in town were almost invisible. If you didn't look you wouldn't even know they were there. Yet they lived their lives and socialized and got around Derry entertaining themselves in their own sort of community. Kind of like the way the kids in Derry were invisible and how that invisibility allowed Pennywise to hunt them like prey. Invisibility that allowed Henry to go on unchecked by any sort of authority until it proved useful for Pennywise to scapegoat him.
I also wondered about Atropos' lair. I can believe Clotho and Lachesis were there for a purpose but Atropos had a home in Derry. Ralph noticed how expansive the "warehouse" underground seemed to be when he was inside the lair. Did that space go on forever and allow Atropos to emerge anywhere like some sort of closet boogeyman? I guess I'm assuming astral beings would move like humans but still, it's awfully convenient that Atropos would have his lair right there in the middle of Derry. His job is to cut the balloon strings of people in service of the Random, correct? Does this mean there are more Little Bald Doctors around the world? It never says in the book that those three are the only three but it was the feeling I got while reading.
As an aside, I don't believe IT was a female. Yes, IT had laid eggs but remember in the scene where Beverly revisits her home? Pennywise says something along the lines of "My fadder was my madder" leading me to believe IT is male AND female.