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“Butch” Bowers teaches his son his own violent racism through his resentment of Will Hanlon’s greater success. “Butch” Bowers is also mentally ill, and his son will inherit Butch’s obsessive tendencies as well as his inability to take responsibility for his own life. Additionally, Butch teaches Henry how to use dehumanizing language. In his own pursuits against the Losers’ Club, Henry never refers to any one of them by name. Instead, Bill Denbrough is “the Stuttering Freak” and Beverly is “the bitch” or “the cooze.” This unwillingness to regard them as human mentally prepares Henry to kill them.
“Butch” Bowers’s…