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    a very kind man in town. Unfortunately, after his accident caused by saving Dr. Trescott’s son from the fire, the town sees Henry as a monster because this accident is the reason his face got burned. The people around him do not consider the fact that he is as a person; they only focus on how he looks (a monster). In the movie Carrie, Carrie White is viewed as the monster in school. She is a shy and awkward girl in high school, and everyone else around her is extremely social and they all have friends (Carrie). Since the other students see her as this weird new girl who happens to have a crazy mom , they all start to think that she is a monster. “She is known as a monster in her school and the word ‘monster’ equals to ‘different.’ However, happened all because of the monsters that started bullying her” (Monsters In Our Society). Carrie White is a girl and looks like everyone else that is in high school, but because she acts differently from everyone that goes to school with her, they all end up judging her and treating her like she is a monster. The bullies are the monsters because they act inhuman by making her feel terrible about herself. In both Carrie and The Monster, there are monsters that try to make it seem like the victim is the true…

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    Carrie Movie Comparison

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    In 2013, Kimberley Pierce directed a remake of Brian De Palma’s horror film classic Carrie. The arrangement stays the same, but by using a little modernization, additional character development, and new scenes here and there, Peirce essentially reinvents the same familiarity while making the film her own. Pierce jettisons the focus off of Carrie’s tumultuous relationship with her mother and puts a microscope on Carrie’s desire to fit in. While Brian De Palma’s version focuses on the sexual…

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    Director Kimberly Peirce reimagines the classic story of Carrie, a highschool teenage girl who is tormented by the entire senior class. Given the excellenct casting of Carrie as well as her mother Margret, this movie delievers effects which the original wasn't able to support in it's time. Chloe Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) portrays the role of Carrie White, giving us a satisying performance which by the time the movie is over, your happy that little vampire girl from 'Let me In' ended up landing the…

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    Stephen King Sacrifice

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    Stephen King, in the novel, Carrie, illustrates the character, Margaret White, and leads that character to her destruction to suggest that mothers who are abusive, insane and unloving will lead to their destruction. Margaret White is the biological mother of Carrie and is the main villain of the novel. She is the major reason why kids in school treats Carrie as a social outcast. Margaret is a fundamental christian who twists the meaning of the words in the bible to claim that almost everything…

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    Women In Horror Films

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    dichotomy of the virgin vs. sex kitten, innocent vs. deviant, pure vs. impure female image and the religious undertones that drive this binary. This film does, however, stray from what feminist theorists have called the “male antagonist,” as Carrie acts as both the antagonist and protagonist in this film. On the contrary, Carrie does fit the virgin profile while other females in the film fit the sex kitten profile. In order to better understand the reflective theory in the context of this film,…

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    using the ‘male gaze’ and punishing women for any kind of sexuality. Brian de Palma’s 1976 film adaption of Stephen King’s novel Carrie is no different. Although marketed to young women, Carrie is fraught with female objectification and fetishization with an overall lack of progressive female characters. It would seem having a female protagonist as…

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    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…

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    Carrie Bickmore

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    Personal life and childhood Carrie Bickmore was born 3d of December 1980 in Adelaide, Australia. Carrie was the only child of loving and loyal parents Brian L. Bickmore and Jennie Bickmore-brand. In her early years Carrie and her family had moved to Perth. She had attended an Anglican girl’s school and studied journalism at Curtin University of technology and graduated in 2000. In 2005 Carrie had married Greg Lange and gave birth to Oliver in 2007. Greg had died in 2010 from brain cancer. After…

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    of the lavish stores, hotels, and houses lead Carrie to fall…

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    rather than listen to music about drugs and death. We are encouraged to go out and find a role model as early as the age of three. Some Children will choose their mom or dad, some will choose Superman or Batman, and then you have some kids like me who choose a singer such as Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood to be their role models. When we begin to look for role models, we look for specific aspects and traits that we admire in that person. We strive to be like our role models. Little boys…

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