Reading IT and I am in awe of how King portrays Beverly
This part was like a sucker punch. Genuinely had to stop for a moment because wow.
Not going into too much detail, I had a childhood a bit like Beverly's (minus the killer clown) and when I was reading this, it really felt like someone had just reached into 13 year old me's mind and placed all my thoughts on paper. The fact thats hes just punched and bruised her and then completely changed demeanor to make it seem like its for her own good, and the surge of affection she feels for him because this is the only chance she gets, really, to feel like he does love her. And then she goes kn to marry a man whose just like him, its devastatingly realistic. This is part fo the reason I don't understand people who think Bev is written badly, because I look at this and I understand her immensely. She is a master-class on how to write abused characters.
He manages to write traumatised children so well and maybe I just haven't read enough books, but I've yet to find another author who writes as human as he does. By human, I mean his characters feel like people who actually exist, and he fleshes them out so masterfully I just. Damn. Definitely not as eloquent with my words as Mr King, but hoping you can make sense of my rambles.