“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 focus on, maybe it’s all of them? There’s a romance buzzing with Ben and
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Carrie was mostly just a puppet of her mother instead of a separate, freethinking entity. There were a handful of times that Carrie rebelled, after which she was heavily punished: “-the time she had found that picture of Flash Bobby Pickett under Carrie’s pillow-and Carrie had once fainted from the lack of food and the smell of her own waste” (King 43). The depressed, post-holocaust tone of the book is reflective of Carrie’s state of mind. Suppressing her power, her natural feelings, and her emotions in fear of displeasing Momma, Carrie had to pretend she was something she wasn’t for a very long time. She had to run from who she actually was her entire life. She wasn’t allowed to explore her emotions and be a normal teenager because “it was a sin.” If Carrie ever felt a sense of identity before, she didn’t show it, but after the blood was dumped and she ran out, Carrie collapsed in the grass. And suddenly, Carrie realized that she was powerful. Carrie realized what she wanted to do. She wanted to show them all who she was and what she could do. Even though Carrie then became a malevolent and wrathful impetus, I was happy for her. She finally stood up for herself. Sometimes, when the protagonist realizes what they really are and becomes the antagonist, it’s
Carrie was mostly just a puppet of her mother instead of a separate, freethinking entity. There were a handful of times that Carrie rebelled, after which she was heavily punished: “-the time she had found that picture of Flash Bobby Pickett under Carrie’s pillow-and Carrie had once fainted from the lack of food and the smell of her own waste” (King 43). The depressed, post-holocaust tone of the book is reflective of Carrie’s state of mind. Suppressing her power, her natural feelings, and her emotions in fear of displeasing Momma, Carrie had to pretend she was something she wasn’t for a very long time. She had to run from who she actually was her entire life. She wasn’t allowed to explore her emotions and be a normal teenager because “it was a sin.” If Carrie ever felt a sense of identity before, she didn’t show it, but after the blood was dumped and she ran out, Carrie collapsed in the grass. And suddenly, Carrie realized that she was powerful. Carrie realized what she wanted to do. She wanted to show them all who she was and what she could do. Even though Carrie then became a malevolent and wrathful impetus, I was happy for her. She finally stood up for herself. Sometimes, when the protagonist realizes what they really are and becomes the antagonist, it’s