It By Stephen King Chapter One

In the story "It" by Stephen King, King’s use of imagery helps him add suspense in his story to make his reader stay on edge. For example King writes this imagery “He felt the rough surface of the macadam under his fingers, and the thin sheet of cold water flowing around them. He saw himself getting up and backing away and that was when a voice—a perfectly reasonable and rather pleasant voice—spoke to him from inside the storm drain” “Hi, Georgie,” it said. George blinked and looked again. He could barely credit what he saw; it was like something from a made-up story, or a movie where you know the animals will talk and dance. If he had been ten years older, he would not have believed what he was seeing, but he was not sixteen. He was six. There was a clown in the storm drain. The light in there was far from good, but it was good enough so that George Denbrough was sure of what he was seeing. It was a clown, like in the circus or on TV. In fact he looked like a cross between Bozo and Clarabell….The face of the clown in the storm drain was white, there were funny tufts of red hair on either side of his bald head, and there was a big clown-smile painted over his mouth. If George had been inhabiting a later year, he would have surely thought of Ronald McDonald before Bozo or Clarabell...In the other hand he held George’s newspaper boat. “Want your boat, Georgie?” The clown smiled.George smiled back. He couldn’t help it; it was the kind of smile you just had to answer. “I sure do,” he said. The clown laughed. “ ‘I sure do.’ That’s good! That’s very good! And how about a balloon?” “Well . . . sure!” He reached forward . . . and then drew his hand reluctantly back. “I’m not supposed to take stuff from strangers. My dad said so.” King give us the reader a visual look of Pennywise The Clown, the clown that is described by George is that the clown looks like Bozo the clown cross with Clarabell the clown. Just this visual of the clown i already have a idea of what the clown looks like. i have never seen the movie before but i seen images of the clown from the 1990 "It" movie and the 2017 movie reboot. i can tell you that the movie and the book do have some some characteristic of Bozo the clown and Clarabell. This is why i can see a bald clown with red hair on each side of his head, A big smile on his face like the joker from The Dark Knight, when I read throughout the book.  Another part that King did to add imagery was when PennyWise offered George the boat and the balloon. as the reader I could see the clown offering these stuff to George which adds the off edge part of King story. There an irony, king had the choice to write about any monster he could have chosen but he created just a simple clown. This help king not only makes his story scary but makes people be more coulrophobia. Because of the story many people have had these phobia toward clown and the reason why is because of the good use of imagery that Stephen King uses to make a reader imagination flow throughout his book.