Stephen King's Carrie: The Tale Of The Misconceived Innocent Girl

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Olivia Eiken
November 16th, 2017
ENGL:1200:0040
Lauren Abunassar
The Tale of the Misconceived Innocent Girl
Ever felt misunderstood or often felt misconceived? In the book Carrie, Stephen King writes about a young teenage girl named Carrie White who was constantly ridiculed and made fun for being different throughout her life by her peers. The rejection she experienced by them along with the abuse of her aggressively religious mother often led to paranormal circumstances, triggered by her TK (telekinesis). This eventually led to the death of hundreds, including her mother, peers and herself. Some people may think that Carrie was the spawn of satan, as her mother put it. Then again, others might say that she was just a normal, unpopular, misconceived …show more content…

Those who think that Carrie used her powers for evil are completely wrong. Even her own mother, who high religious views were very prevalent in the novel, had pre-conceived beliefs that Carrie was the product of sin and should have been killed at birth. "You spawn of the Devil," she whispered. "Why was I so cursed?" (King 56). Margaret, Carrie’s mother, even once wrote a letter to her own mother, whom she had left because she was living a life full of sin, explaining that she was married and living "sinlessly, without the Curse of Intercourse." (King 60). "Devil's child," she moaned. "Devil's child, Satan spawn" (King 97). But Carrie was conceived later that year when her mother, was raped... by her own husband. Because that happened she thought that Carrie was a punishment from God, and therefore, the spawn of Satan. Contrary to popular belief, Carrie really was not the spawn of Satan, even though her witch of a mother thought she had a reason to be titled that. She was just a misunderstood girl whose upbringing led her to be looked at as not very normal in means of society. To make matters worse, her mother wasn't the least bit normal. Many instances in the book showed how she would lock Carrie up in a closet …show more content…

She did it because she had been the object of every prank throughout her life, and she finally had enough. Carrie is the story of a girl who has been the odd one all her life, the misfit, the picked on loser. Carrie was left at the bad end of every cruel joke, the object of any malicious prank. We first see this in the opening scene of the book, all the girls are in the showers after gym class and Carrie is the last to leave the showers. When she comes out, she has blood running down her leg, which we know is from her period. When all the girls in the showers nearby her see this occurring and circle her and start chanting "PER-iod, PER-iod, PER-iod!" (King 7). The use of capital letters along with separating the word period into two shows the genuine cohesiveness of all the girls bullying carrying and how aggressive they were being towards her. When they started throwing tampons at her, "They flew like snow and the chant became: "Plug it up, plug it up, plug it up, plug it-"" (King 8). This just furthers the argument of how cruel people were to Carrie. As we all know, Chris Hargenson was always the worst one of all the people who picked on Carrie. She would just do uncalled for malicious things from the get go, like call Carrie and ask her if she knew pip poop was spelled like C-A-R-R-I-E. Chris is the girl whom had the idea to dump pigs blood onto Carrie at

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