Carrie (novel) - Wikipedia. Carrie is a novel by American author Stephen King. It was his first published novel, released on April 5, 1. Set primarily in the then- future year of 1. Carrie White, a misfit and bullied high school girl who uses her newly discovered telekinetic powers to exact revenge on those who torment her. The Case Of Unfaithful Klara Full Movie Part 1. While in this process, she causes one of the worst local disasters in American history. King has commented that he finds the work to be "raw" and "with a surprising power to hurt and horrify." It is one of the most frequently banned books in United States schools.[2] Much of the book uses newspaper clippings, magazine articles, letters, and excerpts from books to tell how Carrie destroyed the fictional town of Chamberlain, Maine while exacting revenge on her sadistic classmates and her own mother Margaret.
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The book is dedicated to King's wife Tabitha: "This is for Tabby, who got me into it – and then bailed me out of it."Carietta "Carrie" White is a 1. Chamberlain, Maine. Her widowed mother Margaret, a fanatical Christian fundamentalist, has a vindictive and unstable personality and over the years has ruled Carrie harshly with repeated threats of damnation, as well as frequent physical abuse. Carrie does not fare much better at school, where her frumpy looks and lack of friends make her the subject of ridicule. At the beginning of the novel, Carrie has her first period while showering after a physical education class. She has no understanding of menstruation as her mother never told her about it, believing it to be sin. Because of this, Carrie is convinced she is bleeding to death.
Her classmates use the event as an opportunity to taunt her; led by Chris Hargensen, they throw tampons and sanitary napkins at her. When gym teacher Rita Desjardin happens upon the scene, she at first berates Carrie for her stupidity. However, she realizes that Carrie has no idea what is happening to her. In the midst of the commotion a lightbulb shatters above Carrie's head. Miss Desjardin excuses this and helps Carrie clean up and tries to explain.
Carrie's mother shows no sympathy for her; she beats her and locks her into a "prayer closet", insisting that her first period is a punishment for some sort of sin. Miss Desjardin, still incensed over the locker room incident and ashamed at her initial disgust with Carrie, wants all the girls who taunted Carrie suspended and banned from attending the school prom. However, because Principal Henry Grayle is intimidated by Chris's father, a prominent local lawyer, he instead punishes the girls by forcing them to attend a week- long boot- camp style after- school detention with Miss Desjardin in order to still be allowed to attend prom night.
During an altercation with Miss Desjardin, Chris refuses to appear for the detention and tries unsuccessfully to rally her friends against her who would rather tough out the detention week so they could go to the prom that they have been looking forward to for the whole school year. As punishment, she is suspended and banned from the prom. At her behest, Mr. Hargensen tries to intimidate Mr. Grayle and the other administration into reinstating her privileges.
However, despite his best efforts, Grayle remains firm and defends Miss Desjardin's punishment in revoking Chris's privileges and being banned from prom. Carrie gradually discovers her dormant telekinetic powers which she had apparently possessed since birth. They were once again awoken during the period incident which caused her to unknowingly shatter the light bulb. She also begins to really understand that she is telepathic. Meanwhile, Sue Snell, another popular girl who had earlier teased Carrie, begins to feel remorseful about her participation in the locker room antics.
With the prom fast approaching, Sue convinces her boyfriend, Tommy Ross, one of the most popular boys in the school, to ask Carrie to the prom. Carrie is suspicious but accepts his offer, and makes a red velvet gown. Carrie's mother won't hear of her daughter doing anything so "carnal" as attending a school dance, as she believes that sex in any form is sinful, even after marriage. She also reveals that she knows about Carrie's telekinetic powers, which she considers a form of witchcraft; it seems that they appear every third generation in her family. Carrie, however, is tired of hearing that everything is a sin; she wants a normal life and sees the prom as a new beginning. The prom initially goes well for Carrie; Tommy's friends are welcoming and Tommy finds himself attracted towards her. Watch First Blood Online Hitfix. Chris, still furious, devises her own revenge with her boyfriend Billy Nolan: they fill two buckets full of pig's blood and suspend the buckets over the stage.
With the help of several of their cohorts, they rig Carrie's election as prom queen and empty the buckets on Carrie's and Tommy's heads. One of the buckets hits Tommy in the head, mortally wounding him, and he and Carrie are both drenched in blood. Nearly everyone in attendance, even some of the teachers, begin laughing at Carrie.
Finally pushed over the edge, Carrie leaves the building in agonized humiliation. However, she remembers her telekinesis, and decides to use it for vengeance. Initially planning only to lock all the doors and turn on the sprinklers, Carrie remembers the electrical equipment set up for the sound system but turns the sprinklers on anyway. Watching through the windows, she witnesses the deaths of two students and a school official by electrocution, and decides to kill everyone, causing a massive fire that destroys the school and traps almost everyone inside. Walking home, she burns almost all of downtown Chamberlain by breaking power lines and exploding gas stations. A side- effect of her telekinesis is "broadcast" telepathy, which causes the city's inhabitants to become aware that the carnage was caused by Carrie White, even if they do not know who she is.
Carrie returns home to her mother, who believes that Carrie has been possessed by Satan and that the only way to save her is to kill her. Margaret reveals that Carrie's conception was a result of a marital rape, and then stabs Carrie in the shoulder with a kitchen knife, but Carrie kills her mother by stopping her heart. Mortally wounded but still alive, Carrie makes her way to destroy the roadhouse wherein she was conceived. She sees Chris and Billy leaving; after Chris attempts to run her over, she telekinetically takes control of the vehicle and wrecks the car, killing them both by having them burn alive. Sue Snell, who has been following Carrie's telepathic "broadcast," finds Carrie collapsed in the parking lot. The two have a brief telepathic conversation. Watch Pat Garrett &Amp; Billy The Kid Online Hollywoodreporter there.
Though Carrie had believed that Sue and Tommy had set her up for the prank, Carrie realizes that Sue is innocent and has never felt any real animosity towards her. Carrie forgives her and dies crying out for her mother. Miss Desjardin, one of the few survivors of the prom, resigns due to her guilt for not reaching out to Carrie sooner, even stating that she would rather kill herself than teach again. Henry Grayle also resigns out of remorse for not doing more to protect Carrie.
The surviving seniors attend a grim graduation ceremony. The "Black Prom" is regarded in the book as one of the worst disasters in American history. Carrie's story becomes a controversial and highly discussed subject. To some she is considered a monster, while to others she is viewed as a folk hero who gave her tormentors what was coming to them.
Scientists begin to take the concept of telekinesis more seriously, while schools double their efforts to prevent bullying. With over 4. 40 people dead and so much destroyed, Chamberlain becomes a virtual ghost town and a popular tourist attraction because of Carrie's actions.