Why does IT choose to not kill Henry or Audra? He turns Henry's hair white and convinces him to escape the asylum to kill the "losers" but keeps him alive, even though he kills Henry's two friends. Then with Audra, IT just puts her in s comatose state and keeps her in the sewer until Bill and the group find her. Just wondering if there is more about this in the book. Why some characters are kept alive when IT could easily have killed them.
shareWell with Henry, I think he was sidetracked and just wanted to get to the 7, perhaps thought he'll deal with him later, as far as Audra, when they found her she was cocooned, so most likely IT was ready to go to sleep again and stored some food for later
shareIt just seemed odd that It would kill Victor and Belch, but keep Henry alive. Maybe he saw Henry as a helper who also wanted the 7 dead. As far as Audta goes, it makes some sense that he'd keep her for later. Maybe it was also a way to lure Bill
sharePretty sure It knew that Henry might come in handy against the Losers, given his level of hatred for them. And yes, I also think keeping Audra alive was at least partly an ace up Its sleeve, so to speak, in terms of Its fight against Bill.
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
It had plans for Henry that the book makes much clearer. Before the events in the sewer, it had already given Henry the knife he had, and Henry had used it to murder his own father. It was keeping Henry to take the fall for the deaths that year. Henry talks to It through the moon, and understands that in Derry "if you took care of It, It would take care of you". So he took the fall for the killings without protest, and It brought him back later to kill the adult Losers for the same reason It used Henry as a kid; he was mortal, and could not be stopped by belief or faith.
As for Audra, she was not dead when they find her, true; but that doesn't mean other victims were also not dead when taken to it's lair, either. It may be that it planned to kill her later. But, I think it was just plain old mean revenge. It would take more satisfaction out of driving Audra insane and letting her slowly rot than just killing her outright, because that would hurt Bill more.
Whores will have their trinkets.
This is what happens in the book:
It appears to kill Victor, Belch and Henry in the sewers. Victor screams out he sees the Frankenstein monster, so for Henry It becomes that shape too. Victor dies first. Belch tries to fight off the monster, and Henry seizes the opportunity to cowardly make a run for it. He escapes, but keeps chasing the losers for a while. He even approaches the door to It's lair while the losers are fighting It, but doesn't go in. Later he ends up somewhere outside, stumbles home and finds the police waiting for him.
Both Audra and Bev's husband Tom make it to Derry. It manipulates Tom into kidnapping Audra and bringing her to It's lair. Tom can't handle It's real form of the spider and physically dies. Audra is taken into It's deadlights, but her physical body just becomes comatose. Since It always has the physical form of the spider in It's lair, and It has to obey the physical form It takes, she ends up wrapped in webbing. Probably so It can physically feed on her later as a spider would. The kidnapping is of course a scheme by It to weaken Bill during the rematch of the big metaphysical/mental showdown.