Nature of good and evil // It

It, by Stephen King has many modern day issues involving the nature of good and evil.
One of the main characters, Beverly is abused by her husband, Tom. When she gets a call late at night and she tells her husband she has to leave to go back to Derry. Her husband gets very upset and tries to start beating her up, but this time she decides that she is through with the abuse and fights him back for the first time. This scene shows that even though her husband was so bad to her, after she had to leave to help her friend, that she could stand up and fight for herself if she needed to. "Dear Lord, he's bleeding everywhere." (king 115). Tom was so unprepared for his wife to fight back that when she did he was the one who finally got the worse end of the belt. It shows that because Beverly set her mind to doing something, not even her husband could stop her.
Another issue that Stephen King brings into his writing is hate on gays. A group of guys started beating up a gay man and nobody came to help. "HELP! HELP! THEY'RE KILLING HIM, HELP, PLEASE, FOR GOD'S SAKE!" (King 31). Even though there were people nearby still nobody came to help. Maybe it was the bystander effect. Or more likely, people were very homophobic.
These two situations both show that Stephen King thinks that sometimes you can stand up to your bully. In the first incident Beverly finally stood up to her husband, showing that if you fight evil then it can leave your life. But in the second situation the man tried standing up to his bully, when he could've turned the other cheek. Even though the main plot of It is about a murderous clown, King also writes about real life issues between good and evil.