Why was Georgie not floating?

He had his arm torn off by Pennywise and he was dragged into the sewer. The meaning of his floating is left ambigious in both the book and the film. In the film the floating seems to be the fate of most of It's victims.
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Why does Georgie say you'll float too?

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.
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Did they ever find Georgie's body?

A neighbor witnesses his disappearance, but the fact his body is never found gives Bill hope Georgie somehow survived. Pennywise prays on this in the film, using that hope to lure Bill in the finale. Bill later finds the tatters of Georgie's coat and finally accepts his brother is gone.
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How did Bill know IT wasn't Georgie?

While he comes close to presenting as the real Georgie, it was his fatal mistake of calling the boat “it” instead of “she” that caused Bill to acknowledge that it was Pennywise in disguise. Bill shoots the look-a-like, and the Losers have an all out brawl that defeats the creature for the time being.
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What did Pennywise mean by they all float?

When Pennywise says “They float” to Georgie he's usually referring to what he sees in Georgie's mind. Pennywise is referring to that with Georgie and the bodies of his victims as word play to the kids at other times.
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What does Pennywise fear the most?

Stephen King's IT introduced readers to a one-of-a-kind creature that can take any form, the most common one being Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and as menacing as it is, this creature has one big enemy it's truly scared of: Maturin, the turtle.
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Did Pennywise eat Georgie whole?

In the novel Georgie was left on the street to bleed to death while the full extent of his fate is fairly ambiguous in the miniseries, but here he's dragged screaming wholly into the sewer where we can assume Pennywise ate his physical body.
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How old was Georgie in IT when he died?

Georgie's death was unique in It. While Pennywise's later victims were composed exclusively of high school students, Georgie was only six when he died. The added horror of killing someone so young and innocent immediately established Pennywise as a terrifying villain.
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How did Pennywise become evil?

The backstory of Pennywise is tied to an ancient cosmic entity referred to as the "It" or the "Eater of Worlds." This entity is from another dimension and has existed for an extremely long time. It comes to Earth approximately every 27 years to prey on the children of Derry.
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Did Pennywise eat Georgie's arm?

Pennywise offers Georgie his boat back, but when Georgie attempts to reach out to it, Pennywise grabs Georgie's arm and bites it off, leaving Georgie to bleed to death in the rain.
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Whose arm is Pennywise Waving?

Pictures] In King's book, Georgie Denbrough apparently dies from complications due to having his arm ripped off by a reptile-toothed clown. As he reaches into the sewer to retrieve his boat, Pennywise grabs Georgie's arm and the boy starts flopping around and screaming.
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Why does Georgie's brother stutter?

He is the son of Zack and Sharon Denbrough and the older brother of George Denbrough. At the age of three, he is hit by a car and knocked into the side of a building, an accident that left him unconscious for seven hours and that becomes his mother's explanation for his persistent stutter.
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What is Pennywise famous line?

Quotes. It : I'm every nightmare you've ever had. I'm your worst dream come true. I'm everything you ever were afraid of.
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What was Georgie's fear?

IT, Georgie's fear is IT, an evil creature in his basement that smells of garbage and wants to pull him through the basement stairs and eat him(this creatureis entirelymade up).
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What is Pennywise true form?

In the novel, It's origins are nebulous. He took the form of a clown most frequently, Mr. Bob Gray or Pennywise, but his true form is an ancient eldritch entity from another universe who landed in the town that would become Derry by way of an asteroid and first awoke in 1715.
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How did Pennywise eat Georgie?

Also in the 2017 film, Georgie's death is changed. As well as having his right arm bitten off, Georgie is trying to crawl away but he was dragged into the sewers and devoured by Pennywise, with an unnamed older woman and her cat being the sole witnesses of the horrific scene, including before Georgie lost his arm.
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What did Bill lie about to Georgie?

2017 and 2019 films. Bill was portrayed again by Jaeden Martell as a child and James McAvoy as an adult in the 2017 adaptation and its 2019 sequel. In this interpretation, the sequel reveals that he pretended to be sick the day Georgie was killed, resulting in his guilt over his brother's death.
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Why does Pennywise live in the sewer?

The answer can be a bit tricky as Pennywise didn't exactly live in the sewers but under Derry, and as IT arrived millions of years ago before Derry was built, its lair was in place way before the sewers were built, and it was the arrival of settlers what awakened the creature.
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Did Georgie marry Mandy?

It is almost assured that they did get married thanks to Big Bang Theory showing that Georgie and two of his ex-wives sent him congratulatory text messages. Thanks to what happened in Young Sheldon season 6, it is almost certain that they did get married, even if they ended up divorced.
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How much older is Georgie than Missy?

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A devout Southern Baptist, she also has two other children — Sheldon's twin sister, Missy, and brother, Georgie, who is five years older than the twins.
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Is it based on a true story?

Answer and Explanation: No, Stephen King's It is not based on a true story. King had the idea for It when looking at an old wooden walking bridge in 1978 near his home in Boulder, Colorado.
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Why does Pennywise not eat adults?

[Stephen King's IT] Why doesn't Pennywise go after adults the way he goes after kids? Pennywise's deal is that he strikes fear into the hearts of others before devouring them, as essentially fattening them up before he feasts.
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Does Pennywise get pregnant?

Throughout Stephen King's It, Pennywise is referred to as a male, but author Stephen King pulled a fast one on readers in the It book ending by revealing the creature's true form was a pregnant spider, implying that it is, in fact, biologically female.
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Why doesn t Pennywise eat adults?

Pennywise targets children instead of adults because they are easier to scare and manipulate. Their fears are often simpler, more direct, and easier for Pennywise to exploit.
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