Stephen King Carrie

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Carrie is a book by Stephen King and the book was banned because it was a violent, and had a sexual themes in parts of the book. Carrie is a just teenage girl and is trying to get by in school. She has these telekinetic powers and she barely found out about it. She does not know how to control her powers. There was an incident when she was little, she cause a rain storm to occur when it was sunny. The sad part about her life is that she has this psychopath mother who hurts and abuse Carrie ever since she was a little girl. In the middle of the first chapter of the book, Carrie goes to school and takes a shower in the girls locker room. While in the shower, she sees blood dripping from her leg. What carrie experiences was her first period. When the girls in the locker room saw her, they started to yell and throw tampons at her and shouted “Plug it up”. When the PE teacher came, she started to yell at poor Carrie and took her to the office to get clean up. …show more content…
When carrie left the principal’s office, the teacher and the Principal talked about carrie’s mother. This scene gives you an insight about their character. Carrie’s mother puts the “H” in horroritable people. She is a hard core religous mother who has no room for sin in her life. A few weeks later after the incident, Carrie goes back to school. A classmate named Sue Snell talk to her boyfriend name Tommy Rose into taking Carrie to the prom. Sue feels bad for Carrie. She feels responsible for treating her so badly as well as the other kids at school. Sadly for Carrie the biggest night of her life is not going to go her way. Chris and his friend are planning to make Carrie prom a living nightmare, who knows what they will do to her to finish her life off. Before the prom Chris and his friend go to a pig farm and kill a pig. They fill up buckets with pigs blood. You have to read the book to find out what they do with the buckets of

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