- After the Flood (1957)
- After the Carnival (1984)
- Six Phone Calls (1985)
- Derry: The First Interlude
- Ben Hanscom Takes a Fall
- Bill Denbrough Beats the Devil (I)
- One of the Missing: A Tale From the Summer of '58
- The Dam In the Barrens
- Georgie's Room and the House On Neibolt Street
- Cleaning Up
- Derry: The Second Interlude
- The Reunion
- Walking Tours
- Three Uninvited Guests
- Derry: The Third Interlude
- The Apocalyptic Rockfight
- The Album
- The Smoke-Hole
- Eddie's Bad Break
- Another One of the Missing: The Death of Patrick Hockstetter
- The Bullseye
- Derry: The Fourth Interlude
- In the Watches of the Night
- The Circle Closes
- Under the City
- The Ritual of Chud
- Out
- Derry: The Final Interlude
- Epilogue: Bill Denbrough Beats the Devil (II)
The Bullseye
Ben's story completes the section, telling the story of what happened to his silver dollar.
The day after Eddie is released from the hospital, the group all meets at Bill's house and, using Ben's incredible craftsmanship, are able to melt down the dollar and turn it into two silver slugs that they hope to use against It -- with Beverly firing the Bullseye. Two days later they meet at the house on Neibolt Street and make their way in. Wandering through the creepy, abandoned house, they finally encounter It in Werewolf-form again. Ben is attacked, but Beverly is able to pierce the Werewolf's skull with the silver slug, which scares It away. Later they hang out in their clubhouse, unsure how to proceed. Ben becomes painfully aware that Beverly is falling for Bill.
This chapter forms the climax to this section, but it contains enough intensity to have been the climax to the entire story. I find that I enjoy this episode more for its small moments than for the overall plot point. I love the scene in Bill's house where the kids work together making their slugs, then play Monopoly, leading to Stan's joke "Jews are good at making money," which Bill repeats later, embarrassing his mother. I enjoy the descriptions within the house, in particular the elves on the wallpaper, which somehow seems like a creepy detail for a haunted house. I also have always loved Beverly's mental analysis of the house: "It stinks. I can smell it. But not with my nose."
Consider the progression we have witnessed throughout the six chapters of the "July of 1958" section: the Losers officially came together as a group in the first chapter, stated their purpose against It in the second, came to a more concrete definition of the enemy in the third, dealt with ongoing struggles and manifestations of It in the fourth and fifth, and finally have a confrontation in the sixth. Although they don't kill It, it is established that the seven of them joined together do make a comparable force that can potentially harm It. This encounter will lead to It staying away for two weeks, and the next encounter will be the final showdown.
The chapter ends with Ben contemplating power, and what it really means to have power. Perhaps, he will eventually come to grasp, the seven of them don't really need silver slugs. Perhaps they share another kind of power, and the more they work together as a unit, they stronger they become against their adversary.
Only more chapter to go, and then we will be ready for the final showdown...
The day after Eddie is released from the hospital, the group all meets at Bill's house and, using Ben's incredible craftsmanship, are able to melt down the dollar and turn it into two silver slugs that they hope to use against It -- with Beverly firing the Bullseye. Two days later they meet at the house on Neibolt Street and make their way in. Wandering through the creepy, abandoned house, they finally encounter It in Werewolf-form again. Ben is attacked, but Beverly is able to pierce the Werewolf's skull with the silver slug, which scares It away. Later they hang out in their clubhouse, unsure how to proceed. Ben becomes painfully aware that Beverly is falling for Bill.
This chapter forms the climax to this section, but it contains enough intensity to have been the climax to the entire story. I find that I enjoy this episode more for its small moments than for the overall plot point. I love the scene in Bill's house where the kids work together making their slugs, then play Monopoly, leading to Stan's joke "Jews are good at making money," which Bill repeats later, embarrassing his mother. I enjoy the descriptions within the house, in particular the elves on the wallpaper, which somehow seems like a creepy detail for a haunted house. I also have always loved Beverly's mental analysis of the house: "It stinks. I can smell it. But not with my nose."
Consider the progression we have witnessed throughout the six chapters of the "July of 1958" section: the Losers officially came together as a group in the first chapter, stated their purpose against It in the second, came to a more concrete definition of the enemy in the third, dealt with ongoing struggles and manifestations of It in the fourth and fifth, and finally have a confrontation in the sixth. Although they don't kill It, it is established that the seven of them joined together do make a comparable force that can potentially harm It. This encounter will lead to It staying away for two weeks, and the next encounter will be the final showdown.
The chapter ends with Ben contemplating power, and what it really means to have power. Perhaps, he will eventually come to grasp, the seven of them don't really need silver slugs. Perhaps they share another kind of power, and the more they work together as a unit, they stronger they become against their adversary.
Only more chapter to go, and then we will be ready for the final showdown...