The novel expresses that IT is unfamiliar with most emotion and mimics back what IT thinks will🌜 help IT capture prey. IT seems to understand pleasure and satisfaction well enough, killing and eating humans makes IT quite🌜 content, though IT learns fear and hatred after confronting the Losers Club.

Almost certainly the most well-known evil clown (save for Batmans archnemesis, the Joker; more🌜 on him later), Pennywise is modeled after real-life serial killer John Wayne Gacy, aka Pogo the Clown, a.k.a. "The Clown🌜 Killer." Gacy was convicted of sexually assaulting and killing 33 boys in 1980; he posed as a clown ...