Sometime during the summer of 1958, Henry receives a package from It that contains a switchblade with a six-inch blade. Killing Mr Chips was Henry's way of winning his father's affection his reward was joy from Butch and being treated to a beer. Butch simply blames Hanlon for every misfortune he has and claims that the rest of the community had lied in their support of Hanlon. For years before this deed, Henry had been subjected to Butch Bower's racist opinion of Mike's father, whose own farm down the road was more successful than the Bowers'. However, as the Losers often note, he is back on his feet in very little time and it takes a tremendous effort to stop him even for a short period.Īt the age of 10, Henry kills Mike Hanlon's dog, Mr Chips, when he feeds the animal ground beef he'd laced with rat poison, sitting back serenely watching the dog die. He is often kicked or hit in the crotch, an injury that would halt most boys his age and size. Though Henry is often hurt, even severely, his will, manipulated by It, seems to make him unstoppable. Eventually, the group's members learn to fight back, often defeating Henry by outwitting him. Henry and his small gang of bullies often terrorize and physically abuse the members of The Losers Club. Henry himself is often abused by his drunken father. He has grown up without a mother, who left the family because of her husband's alcoholism and untreated post-traumatic stress disorder as a veteran of World War II.
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He spends much of his time working on his father's farm on the outskirts of Derry, performing most of the manual labor involved. As a student, Henry is academically deficient in middle school, not very intelligent but very cunning and crafty. Henry Bowers is portrayed as sociopathic and sadistic, traits that together make him the perfect human puppet for the entity known as It. In the film adaptation, Henry is 16 years old with a mullet and wears sleeveless T-shirts and torn jeans. In the 1990 miniseries, his appearance is relatively faithful to the book, except he sports a greaser pompadour and wears a brown leather jacket. In the book he is also said to constantly smell like a mixture of sweat and Juicy Fruit chewing gum. At only 12, his teeth are already rotting and it is very noticeable whenever he smiles. He always wears a pink motorcycle jacket with an eagle on the back and worn-out engineer boots. Henry is described in the novel as being very big and strong for a 12-year-old boy with his hair cut in a flattop spiked with a lot of Butch Wax that he keeps in his jeans.
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