IT: What Pennywise's "You'll Float Too" Means
IT’s most famous shape is Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and in addition to its unmistakable appearance, Pennywise has a signature line: “you’ll float too”, and here’s what it means. For decades, Stephen King has terrorized generations of readers with a variety of horror stories with different characters, creatures, settings, and exploring different fears, and one of his most popular and beloved works is IT. Published in 1986, IT received mostly positive reviews, becoming one of King’s most famous stories, and one that has gotten different adaptations: a miniseries in 1990, a TV series in India, and a two-part movie.
Set in Derry, Maine, IT tells the story of a group of kids self-named “The Losers Club”, who in 1957 come across an evil entity living in the sewers, to which they refer as “IT”. This creature wakes up every 27 years to feed, and it does so off the fear of its victims, achieving this through its shapeshifting abilities and thus taking the form of its victim’s biggest fears. Although IT can take any form it desires, its preferred shape is that of Pennywise, the Dancing Clown, and even during its return in 1985, IT continued to terrorize the now-adult Losers as this nightmarish clown.
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Although clowns can be terrifying to many, Pennywise was especially horrifying as it has the ability to lure children and change from a seemingly harmless clown to a murderous creature in less than a second, leaving its victims unable to escape. To add to Pennywise’s evil and terrifying image, the clown has a signature phrase that, especially in the movies IT and IT: Chapter Two, is repeated quite often: “They all float down here. You’ll float too”. Although the
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