starting with goats or sheep

In preparation for going to see IT Chapter Two today, I re watched the first one. In the opening 20 minutes there is one scene that I was like, "A SECOND BLOG POST!!!!!", so bear with me. In the first chapter of our Novel we see Jojo going with his father to slaughter a goat. Jojo thinks he is old enough to do it as this will transition him into a man. Of course, as we have read, he runs out of the barn a vomits. Death is something that Jojo thinks he is able to see but obviously his assumption is wrong. In the beginning of IT we are introduced to all the Losers. But one of these scenes stuck out to me. Mike, who is black, is the "home schooled kid". This is done out of protection as the town of Derry isn't too fond of black people. But his family owns a slaughter house which delivers meat to the towns shops. In his introduction we see him, shakily, holding a bolt gun up to an animals forehead. What kind of animal is it???? Yep, a SHEEP(I know these aren't the same animals but close enough). Now of course this is the first time he was asked to do this. He ends up not being able to kill the poor creature, so his grandfather does it for him. These two characters are quite similar in that they can't look death head on, they're black(or biracial) and where they live isn't too fond of their demographic. I found it very interesting at how strikingly similar these scenes are. Not to mention how similar the characters are as well.