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Stephen King is the brilliant author that wrote It, a dazzling work featuring a number of rhetorical devices which work to support a number of themes. He wrote the novel in Bangor, Maine over a period of four years beginning in 1981 and ending in 1985, and is also renowned for his horror stories through out America. He has dabbled in other types of fiction as well including e-books and the Dark Tower Series which will contain nearly 5000 pages of text if ever completed. It was essentially two stories that paralleled each other, a past and a present, that King switches between, often without warning. The novel focuses on the "loser's club" and their epic battle with their nemesis It. The "loser's club", formed in 1958, includes a stutterer, Bill Denbrough; a fat kid, Ben Hanscom; an abused girl, Beverly Marsh; a mama's boy, Eddie Kaspbrack; a Jewish kid, Stanley Uris; a black kid, Mike Hanlon; and an annoying loud mouth, Richie Tozier. Through pomp and cir
King, being the elusive author he is, felt it necessary to give us a key to understanding this novel. In the front of the book just after the dedication is written this, "Fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists." To simplify his theme into three words, "the magic exists", is an incredible understatement of the ideas expressed in the book. Through out the entire novel symbolism plays a huge role, whether intended or not, especially with regards to the turtle and It. Using the little quote as a key to decipher the meaning of each is quite simple. The turtle and It are the fiction, their actual existence a lie, but their symbolic existence is the truth. They are good and evil waging a constant war upon one another. The "magic exists" portion is a little bit tricky though. I think the magic is that no matter what we do evil will always survive, but so will good. The magic is the way nature balances these forc
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Approximate Word count = 654
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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