IT: What Pennywise’s “You’ll Float Too” Means

IT: What Pennywise’s “You’ll Float Too” Means

As mentioned above, IT lives in the sewers of Derry, and that’s where it takes most of the bodies of its victims. In the novel, “you’ll float too” takes a very tragic and sinister meaning as it’s literally a reference to how dead bodies float in the water in the sewers. The line is first found in the opening chapter of IT, when Georgie is talking to Pennywise, who is hidden in a storm drain. Pennywise offers Georgie a balloon and the young boy asks if they float, to which the clown replies that they do, and so will he when he’s down there with him. In the movie, however, “float” is represented differently though also literally. The Losers get to IT’s underground lair in the third act of IT, where they find a bunch of decayed circus props, the belongings of its victims and their bodies, with those of its child victims floating around.

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Pennywise’s “you’ll float too” line has also been interpreted differently, mostly due to the creature’s supernatural origin and mysterious species. A common interpretation of this phrase is that it refers to where the souls of IT’s victims go after they die, as they wouldn’t go to heaven nor hell, staying instead in the “deadlights”, which would be a sort of limbo, thus “floating” in that middle point for eternity. This would also allow IT to use the souls of its victims as it pleases, which is why Georgie was seen as a separate manifestation of IT. “You’ll float too” is one of the most memorable lines from Stephen King’s IT, and its meaning only makes the title character and the story even more terrifying.

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IT: What Pennywise’s “You’ll Float Too” Means

As mentioned above, IT lives in the sewers of Derry, and that’s where it takes most of the bodies of its victims. In the novel, “you’ll float too” takes a very tragic and sinister meaning as it’s literally a reference to how dead bodies float in the water in the sewers. The line is first found in the opening chapter of IT, when Georgie is talking to Pennywise, who is hidden in a storm drain. Pennywise offers Georgie a balloon and the young boy asks if they float, to which the clown replies that they do, and so will he when he’s down there with him. In the movie, however, “float” is represented differently though also literally. The Losers get to IT’s underground lair in the third act of IT, where they find a bunch of decayed circus props, the belongings of its victims and their bodies, with those of its child victims floating around.

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Pennywise’s “you’ll float too” line has also been interpreted differently, mostly due to the creature’s supernatural origin and mysterious species. A common interpretation of this phrase is that it refers to where the souls of IT’s victims go after they die, as they wouldn’t go to heaven nor hell, staying instead in the “deadlights”, which would be a sort of limbo, thus “floating” in that middle point for eternity. This would also allow IT to use the souls of its victims as it pleases, which is why Georgie was seen as a separate manifestation of IT. “You’ll float too” is one of the most memorable lines from Stephen King’s IT, and its meaning only makes the title character and the story even more terrifying.

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#Pennywises #Youll #Float #Means