“Who am I?” This is such a burning question. “Who am I?” It’s the kind of open-ended question everybody dreads on a test. The search for identity, love, and truth are common themes in literature. They’re themes that everybody can relate to. “Who am I?” ☺ In Carrie, an adolescent girl struggles with being an outcast at school, a violently religious and vindictive mother, and being telekinetic. ☺ I haven’t gotten too far into Salem’s Lot, but so far the author is uncovering the very distant past and the not-so distant past of a little town called Jerusalem’s Lot in Maine. There’s a lot happening, and a lot of characters right now, I honestly can’t tell who I’m supposed to be focused on, maybe it’s all of them? There’s a romance buzzing with Ben
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She is constantly searching for love and acceptance from the only person she really has access to, her mother. Carrie puts up with a lot of things to get this feeling. For example, whenever her mother has a fancy to, she’ll send Carrie to a little closet with the looming picture of God and the eerie blue light. Carrie hated that room, but she would go there whenever “Momma” would say to, just to please her. Carrie’s search for love wasn’t very fruitful with a mother who feared and hated her, and peers that thought she was a living joke. Carrie’s lack of love is evident in a poem she wrote in seventh grade: “”Jesus watches from the wall, but His face is cold as stone. And if He loves me - as she tells me - why do I feel so all alone?”” (King 52). This clearly had an affect on Carrie. After the final joke was played, Carrie decided in an instant that all of the people who didn’t love her, all of the people who didn’t care about her and her feelings, they would have to pay. And they all paid with their lives. After she murdered the entirety of the prom attendees, she casually set a couple fires, exploded a couple gas stations, but ultimately wandered home intent on matricide. This isn’t something that normal people do. Babies need love, children need love, every living person needs love to stay sane, but Carrie didn’t ever get to feel the tender warmth of a mother’s love, and it took a …show more content…
From what I’ve read and experienced with this novel however, the search for truth is instilled in the reader. Starting in the prologue, a man I presume to be Ben is travelling with a random kid. It is specified on multiple occasions that this boy is not the man’s son. At one point, the child meets with a priest, and the aftermath of the visit only makes the story foggier: “”He made a strange confession. In fact, I have never heard a stranger confession in all my days of the priesthood”” (King 198). This conversation is had with absolutely no context. It’s assumed that the conversation has something to do with Jerusalem’s Lot, but at this point, I don’t even know. As the book progresses, it gets into the swing of being of an omniscient point of view that allows the reader to experience all the emotions of all of the characters. The small, uncanny town of Jerusalem’s Lot is slowly being pieced together through the perspectives of countless individuals. Whilst on a date with too-confident-for-her-own-good Susan ☺, Ben tells her that at nine years old, he stumbled upon a long-dead corpse that opened its eyes. Whatever this experience turns out to be at the end of this novel doesn’t matter at this point, because I want to cry just thinking about it. Stephen King is weaving quite a suspenseful and mysterious tale, and I believe that the author is trying to set up the novel
She is constantly searching for love and acceptance from the only person she really has access to, her mother. Carrie puts up with a lot of things to get this feeling. For example, whenever her mother has a fancy to, she’ll send Carrie to a little closet with the looming picture of God and the eerie blue light. Carrie hated that room, but she would go there whenever “Momma” would say to, just to please her. Carrie’s search for love wasn’t very fruitful with a mother who feared and hated her, and peers that thought she was a living joke. Carrie’s lack of love is evident in a poem she wrote in seventh grade: “”Jesus watches from the wall, but His face is cold as stone. And if He loves me - as she tells me - why do I feel so all alone?”” (King 52). This clearly had an affect on Carrie. After the final joke was played, Carrie decided in an instant that all of the people who didn’t love her, all of the people who didn’t care about her and her feelings, they would have to pay. And they all paid with their lives. After she murdered the entirety of the prom attendees, she casually set a couple fires, exploded a couple gas stations, but ultimately wandered home intent on matricide. This isn’t something that normal people do. Babies need love, children need love, every living person needs love to stay sane, but Carrie didn’t ever get to feel the tender warmth of a mother’s love, and it took a …show more content…
From what I’ve read and experienced with this novel however, the search for truth is instilled in the reader. Starting in the prologue, a man I presume to be Ben is travelling with a random kid. It is specified on multiple occasions that this boy is not the man’s son. At one point, the child meets with a priest, and the aftermath of the visit only makes the story foggier: “”He made a strange confession. In fact, I have never heard a stranger confession in all my days of the priesthood”” (King 198). This conversation is had with absolutely no context. It’s assumed that the conversation has something to do with Jerusalem’s Lot, but at this point, I don’t even know. As the book progresses, it gets into the swing of being of an omniscient point of view that allows the reader to experience all the emotions of all of the characters. The small, uncanny town of Jerusalem’s Lot is slowly being pieced together through the perspectives of countless individuals. Whilst on a date with too-confident-for-her-own-good Susan ☺, Ben tells her that at nine years old, he stumbled upon a long-dead corpse that opened its eyes. Whatever this experience turns out to be at the end of this novel doesn’t matter at this point, because I want to cry just thinking about it. Stephen King is weaving quite a suspenseful and mysterious tale, and I believe that the author is trying to set up the novel