It POV?
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I was wondering if it was a student fishing for easy answers
Forgive me if I'm wrong, OP, but we get quite a few of those, and the standard answer is that one should do one's own work.
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Y'know I was thinking the same thing, lol. Should I delete my post?I was wondering if it was a student fishing for easy answers
Might be a good idea. Then again, I could be completely wrong (that happens periodically--lol).
Funny thing is, it still appears in Skimom's quote...ha! 
A period, lol. Why didn't I post that in Sigmund's thread?
I used to edit with a *, until Dana Jean informed that it was code for calling someone something different. Never knew that. Thanks again, Dana Jean
Robert Gray
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Oh, I don't know. Sounds like an honest question regardless of why. If it is a student, this person went out of their way to find the official Stephen King site, navigate it, find the right forum and ask. It would have been easier to just do a google search and use the answers that come up there. For all I know, there are Cliff Notes on the book already making my personal knowledge irrelevant. The answer is that the novel is revolutionary for all sorts of reasons, experimental even. It is a very technical, accomplished way of using flashbacks (or flash forwards if you like) to create a story building to a climax at two different points of time... at the same. That is no trivial accomplishment. To heighten this literary approach, different points of view are used in different stories, because It is very much a novel made up of countless smaller, short stories. The majority of events and/or scenes could stand alone as short stories entirely and not leave one wanting. Still, if I were to really break it down, third-person omniscient dominates and defines the book.
The answer is that the novel is revolutionary for all sorts of reasons, experimental even. It is a very technical, accomplished way of using flashbacks (or flash forwards if you like) to create a story building to a climax at two different points of time... at the same. That is no trivial accomplishment. To heighten this literary approach, different points of view are used in different stories, because It is very much a novel made up of countless smaller, short stories. The majority of events and/or scenes could stand alone as short stories entirely and not leave one wanting. Still, if I were to really break it down, third-person omniscient dominates and defines the book.Thanks for your reply. You are correct, I'm not fishing for answers. At one time I was formerly a student, but I'm well-versed in POV, but wasn't sure if there was a definitive answer since the novel is so long, and the narrator's range seems to vary. I found the first two-hundred pages a tad slow, but now I'm totally invested and can't leave the story alone!Oh, I don't know. Sounds like an honest question regardless of why. If it is a student, this person went out of their way to find the official Stephen King site, navigate it, find the right forum and ask. It would have been easier to just do a google search and use the answers that come up there. For all I know, there are Cliff Notes on the book already making my personal knowledge irrelevant.
Neesy
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Wow - the 1st murder on like page 5 didn't grab you? I'd hate to see your idea of "fast-paced"; it might kill me!
Seriously, though, IT has the richest characters of any SK standalone novel I can think of. Well, maybe the Stand too. Either of these books could have been 2500 pages and I wouldn't have complained. Heck, if SK wanted to drop us a line or twelve about how Ben and Bev turned out, I would not complain.
It's so avant garde, you, the reader, get to chose the point of view. I'm partial to omniscient observer myself.