Connection with IT *spoilers for TGWLTG*

[SixPins]

Anyone else sense a bit of a hint twoards IT while reading TGWLTG. I couldn't help but noticing all the italisized "It"s when the narrator refered to the stalking creature. Anyone play around with the idea that the God of the Lost is of the same species as IT? It took the form of a bear, but when Trisha looked at it, she saw wasps in its throat and deer innards, two things she deeply feared.

I like to view this as a little tip to IT. One of King's shortest novels connecting with on of his longest.

[natalia101]

i had never thought of the IT connection but i can see that now and he quite often has links between his books. tom gordon had always made me think of lord of the flies with a child being lost on her own and the wasp bear thing.

[michal]

I can't really see it. While both books have some evil force that peeps through the cracks, It is much more spiteful and it is very clear it doesn't need to hunt - it uses people against each other and against themselves and tempts us with our own fears. It is a city creature. It goes where people live. The evilness in The Girl who Loves Tom Gordon is more primal. It lurks in the forest and lives off the Earth.

[Bluey Lunger]

yeah, there's connections to It. belief. and the idea that, as sk said in 'an evening w/sk' from secret windows, 'at one point in the story, tricia says, why do you point? [she's asking tom gordon this--he often pointed skyward, i guess, after a save] her version of tom gordon says that it's the nature of god to come on in the bottom of the ninth with runners on base.'

all the monsters are connected. they crawl out of that hole when you blink. but yeah, i think i noticed the same thing, thought the same thing. It, capitalized.

there's also that 'expression of belief' w/the telling of what happens to close out the ballgame in tgwltg. maybe it's the 'coming of the white'. maybe it's known as something else. maybe it's best expressed w/t.g. finger upraised, #1.

[Jack Roman]

No. I didn't really see the connection.