I have read the book two times and I love it but the end is kind of sad to me it sucks how everyone forgets about each other and fogets everything anyone else think so?
shareI like the ending... They forget the most traumatic part of their lives and move forward towards actual happiness.
shareSo you like how everybody forgets everything including the bond all the losers club has ??
shareI don't dislike it... we all lose childhood friendships. Many of our relationships from our youths completely slip our mind until something reminds us of a moment. It sucks, but it is life. In the case of the Losers, the closeness of their bond was in reaction to their traumatic situations. Without the trauma they never would have been so close. I always took the ending as them receiving the gift of forgetting the trauma, which causes their childhood relationships to have no more significance than any of ours.
I know it says something like, "they slipped out of each others minds forever." (I haven't read IT in a few years so I don't remember verbatim), but I doubt that Bev and Ben have no recollection of each other in grade school. I bet if the rest of the losers are asked about their childhoods, they would remember each other... but they wouldn't consciously remember the significance of their bond.
It's the perfect ending. The whole town of Derry suffered the same thing, forgetting the awful things of the past. I like the idea that this seeps in once again.
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