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Post by notsoholymarie on Aug 22, 2012 13:45:56 GMT -5
As I read this part, I felt like the kids were a little too childish, but then I remember, I was so stupid when I was this age...
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Post by aliceapproved on Aug 22, 2012 13:50:50 GMT -5
I believe we were all idiotic in our own way at that age. XD
Who is your favorite member of the Them?
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Post by notsoholymarie on Aug 22, 2012 15:03:37 GMT -5
Pepper all the way, I feel like she challenges Adam in some ways. And she's ginger.
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Post by aliceapproved on Aug 22, 2012 16:48:45 GMT -5
I have to agree that Pepper is awesome. I love young girl characters who can scare the boys. XD
Also, Adam is a very nice AntiChrist.
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Post by lacrypte on Aug 22, 2012 18:27:35 GMT -5
Actually I felt it fit perfectly! Because I remember being 11, and we had our own little group of the them. It was Caleb, Brendon, and I, and sometimes two girls next door. We'd have sword fights and pretend the shadows were chasing us, and we'd build forts and do a lot of things the Them would do. I do agree sometimes they seemed really childish but then again.
Oh god I don't know whos my favorite...it's real hard to say. Wendsleyday surprisingly I think was my favorite.
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Post by notsoholymarie on Aug 22, 2012 19:03:22 GMT -5
I don't remember anything under the age of 12, sadly. My brain erases everything older then 2 years ago...
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Post by Kree on Aug 22, 2012 22:05:06 GMT -5
Maybe this is why I never really liked the scenes with the Them. I always felt that they were portrayed as unrealistically childish in the way they thought and the way they spoke? I'm liking them more with this reread, but I think they just never read as actual children to me. Does this even make sense haha
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Post by kajainthesky on Aug 23, 2012 8:32:48 GMT -5
I just love Them. Can't even remember what I was like one month ago though, so I never really thought of them as either realistic or unrealistic?
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Post by manderspuppy on Aug 23, 2012 9:07:45 GMT -5
Adam is by far my favorite! I love all of Them but I have a thing about too smart/charismatic child characters.
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Post by spacegandalf on Aug 23, 2012 12:40:40 GMT -5
Well my sister's 11 so I'm often surrounded by 11 year olds and a couple of the people in her class are just like the Them.
I think the Them were purposefully written as more childish than your modern eleven year old to show how much of a kid's paradise Tadfield is. While eleven year olds do tend to be more mature, Tadfield is like of those old-timey boy's comics where kids would've been exactly like the Them and would go on adventures and get mucky.
Adam probably read some of those comics and decided that that's exactly what it should be like to be an eleven year old and, because he has special antichrist powers that shape Tadfield how he wants it, that is why all his friends are that way.
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Post by sepherene on Aug 23, 2012 23:18:06 GMT -5
I've done teaching in an elementary school and there's a varying degree of maturity with 11 year olds. Honestly, they're all full of themselves though :I Haha jkjk but I think psychologically with the kind of town they live in and the type of parents they seem to have, I'm not surprised that they seem a bit younger. I like gandalf's comment though and that's probably true as well, since we know how much he loves the place.
My favorite Them is Adam. I kind of like Wensleydale too. Brian's just kind of there lol Pepper I'm like on the fence about because I knew a girl like her as a kid and I hated her guts.
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Post by Kaytara on Aug 26, 2012 20:33:46 GMT -5
I have to say I didn't really warm up to The Them until after the book's climax, seeing their arcs brought to the end of their development like that. They seem not only a bit more childish than one would expect, but their knowledge and understanding of the world also tends to the more superficial. It always strikes me as slightly off whenever I see fics with adult!Them that have all or most of them sent off to Cambridge or Oxford or the like.... Then again, their naive and often superficial and childish outlook is what makes them fit to fight the Horsemen at the end - if they were more mature or aware of themselves, they'd also be more aware of how implausible what they're trying is, and it wouldn't work. Instead, they have just enough of the dumb stubborn kid in them to make it work.
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