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Pennywise – It The Clown Pennywise is one of the main characters in Stephen King’s novel, IT. He is the monsterous nemesis that brings terror into the hearts of children, especially a group of seven misfit kids who banded together as an unlikely gang of heroes intent on stopping this fiend. Pennywise disguises himself as a familiar childhood character that’s well loved and trusted by children everywhere. He has shocking, red hair on the sides of his head reminiscent of Bozo the clown. His white face and red button nose portrays a happy clown framed by his pristine, fluffy, white collar. His blue and yellow clown costume is shiny and soft to the touch. Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, Pennywise uses this comforting image of happiness to lure his victims to their death. When he bears his teeth, they are as sharp as the claws on his white gloved hands.
“We all float down here,” is what Pennywise tells all his victims before he grabs hold of them. He takes them deep in the dark, dank sewers of Derry, Maine, and feasts on his victims’ bodies. This psychopathic clown is in fact a monster who has lived beneath the earth for eons. About every thirty years or so, this shape shifting entity emerges from its slumber to feed. Pennywise, the Dancing Clown has honed his hunt towards children because of their creative, impressionable minds. Children are more open to the fantastic, the fantasy and the possibility of a world outside what adults call “reality”. Pennywise abuses this fact by enticing his victims and scaring away his enemies. He offers children balloons, a paper boat, a chance to see one’s dead father, anything to get them within his grasp. Pennywise’s true form is never really known. His main façade is the clown but he can also turn himself into a spider to scare away his enemies. Pennywise is given the name “IT” by the group of children known as the Losers Club because they’ve become very familiar as to what he really is. Its true form lives in a place called the deadlights, which lies outside our physical realm. Anyone who looks into the deadlights becomes insane. To Pennywise, humans are toys or food. He prefers to feed on children partly because of their innocence and their fear. Fear, to Pennywise, adds flavor to the meat.