![]() His father kept an album filled with photos that were important to Derry's history, including several of Pennywise the Clown. Through the knowledge he acquires of Derry and It, he becomes an amateur historian of the town. He recalled the rest when the murders begin again in 1985. Mike is the only one of the Losers to stay behind in Derry (and thus the only one to retain his memory of the events of 1958) and becomes the town librarian. This is a sign that It is also afraid of them. Mike recognizes mooseblowers when The Losers go to Neibolt Street with the silver slugs. When The Losers use their clubhouse to try an old Indian ritual to get a vision, it is Mike and Richie Tozier that see It landing on Earth from beyond space in a time long ago. Later, as the Losers work at building their clubhouse in the Barrens, Mike brings his father's photograph album to show the Losers that It shows up in many of the antique pictures, proving that It has been part of Derry for a long time. The Losers beat Henry's gang, and Mike becomes a member of their group. ![]() The Losers Club comes to his rescue in what comes to be known as The Apocalyptic Rockfight. ![]() He tries to hold off Henry, but the bully throws an M-80 at him. While being chased by Henry and his friends Victor "Vic" Criss, Patrick Hockstetter, Reginald "Belch" Huggins, Moose Sadler and Peter Gordon, Mike is eventually cornered in the gravel pit. Accordingly, Mike is the last to join the Losers Club, bringing them to lucky number 7. Mike was known to the Losers as he was the only black child in Derry, but, as he went to Neibolt Street Church School (on account of his mother being a devout Baptist) rather than Derry elementary, they didn't really know him personally. IT reveals that Mike is afraid of this form from a very early memory of a crow pecking him when he was only 6 months old. While checking out the remains of the Kitchener Ironworks, Mike encounters It in the form of a giant bird. Henry terrorizes Mike when he gets a chance, and he killed Mike's dog, Mr. SHAPE-CHANGING: The Crimson King tells Ralph in Insomnia, "You may not know it, but shape-changing is a time-honored custom in Derry."Ī pretty obvious reference to the many shapes of Pennywise the clown, IT.Mike is the most hated child in Derry by Henry Bowers, who developed this hatred by paralleling his father's hatred of Mike's father, Will. They're talking about the ruckus that occurred when the Losers fought IT for the second time and succeeded in destroying it. THE STORM of '85, THE FLOOD of '85: This storm is mentioned several times in Insomnia. This is the same statue that came to life one day and attacked Richie Tozier in It. PAUL BUNYON STATUE: In Insomnia, Joe Wyzer drives past the "hideous plastic statue of Paul Bunyan." You didn't want to look into them too long.ĭEATH OF ADRIAN MELLON: Ralph thought that Derry had an extra dimension of ugliness and remembered when three boys had thrown Adrian Melon off the bridge into the Kenduskeag. KENDUSKEAG STREAM and the PENOBSCOT RIVER are mentioned in both booksĭEADLIGHTS: While struggling with the Crimson King in Insomnia, Ralph catches a glimpse through the unimaginable levels of existence above him, full of lights, colors, glows and knew that "if he looked too long into those that death would not be the worst thing that could happen to him, but the best." Streets common to both books: MAIN, NEIBOLT, WITCHAM, UP-MILE-HILL. THE ALLADIN THEATER, THE BARRENS, THE HOBO JUNGLE: Ralph thinks of these places as parts of Derry that belonged to the secret world of children. SECONDHAND ROSE, SECONDHAND CLOTHES: A jumbled junkatorium at the bottom of Up-Mile-Hill in both books. In It, Henry Bowers spent a little more time. JUNIPER HILL ASYLUM: In Insomnia, Charlie Pickering spent six months in the place. In It, the Standpipe was thought to be a dangerous place. The Black Spot's story is told in detail in It.ĭERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY: Where Ralph researches his insomnia and is stabbed by Charlie Pickering in Insomnia.Ī favorite place of Ben Hanscom, and Mike Hanlon's later place of employment in It.ĭERRY STANDPIPE: Ralph sits on a bench "not far from the place where the Derry Standpipe had stood until 1985, when the big storm had come along and knocked it down." THE BLACK SPOT: Doc Mulhare said in Insomnia, "Things have a way of happening here.
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