Is Carrie White the protagonist or is she not? According to X.J.Kennedy and Dana Gioia, a protagonist is “the central character in a literary work. The protagonist usually initiates the main action of the story, often in conflict with the antagonist” (Glossary of Literary Terms 2073). The purpose of this essay is to discover why she really is the protagonist. Now some might say she burned down a whole city and killed lots of people, but in Carrie`s defense if someone was bullied their entire life
JONATHAN AGYEMANG HUNTER COLLEGE SUE SNELL IN CARRIE (2013) Punishment has been accepted as a way to repay back the evil and bad things we do hence Carrie White’s first menstrual cycle which unfortunately happened at school when she was taking a shower and because being her first time, she annouced it publicly for the rest of the students to know and unfortunately a video was taken by Chris Hargens boyfriend. This became a talk of the school and had
In Carrie, Stephen King examines humiliation in the society at that time as an instigator of anger. Carrie White is an ideal example of humiliation in the novel. This character has a tragic history. Her story is a tale about social isolation, peer pressure and religion. Carrie is usually angry because she wants to have a normal life, but she cannot because she is afraid of her mother who has strange religious views. Margaret views Carrie as the embodiment of sin in the flesh because she has sex with
Brian DePalma adapted Stephen King’s novel Carrie to inspire his horror film Carrie. Carrie is about Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) who is a shy and timid teenager. She is the daughter of Margaret White (Piper Laurie) who is a religious fanatic. Carrie, born with secret telekinetic powers, uses her power to exact revenge on her high school bullies who humiliated her when she had her period at the age of seventeen; Carrie’s menstruation represent her being late in becoming a women. The supernatural film
This Novel, Carrie is written by Stephen King that based on the story of Carrie White, a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with unbelievable telekinetic powers, and is slowly being pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both cruel classmates at her school, and her own absolute, religious mother. One classmate, Sue Snell, feels sorry for Carrie and asks her boyfriend, Tommy Ross, to take Carrie to the senior prom instead of her. But another classmate, Chris Hargensen, is banned
Carrie (1976) The 1976 film Carrie was directed by Brian De Palma. The summary of the film is a young, quiet and timid 17-year-old girl name Carrie White. She experiences moments of insanity, she can move objects and make things happen unexpectedly. She has telekinesis that leads up to her ultimate revenge at the prom after a humiliating prank against her. Throughout the movie its form is to the climax of the devastating night at the prom, based on the torment and bullying that the “popular” girls
me hooked, especially with the characters. My first King book was Carrie, it also turned out to be my all time favorite! The story is about a high-school girl, Carrie White, who gradually discovers her ability to move objects through her mind power. Tormented by her fellow classmates, she uses her telekinesis to seek revenge. To be completely honest, I chose to read On Writing because I was intrigued how Stephen came up with Carrie, and without a doubt, Stephen has not failed me with this book. King
Most book reviews of Stephen King's 1974 novel, Carrie, were generally positive. With Steve Calvert's review, he focuses on the structure of Carrie. These reviews differed in minor ways but overall the reviewers admire Stephen King's work and enjoyed the story of Carrie White. In Josie Kafka's review, she talks about how the book was able to hurt and horrify the audience. She explains how the hurt and horrifying experiences lead up to Carrie White's horrific explosion. She also makes a point that
Part 1; Blood sport In the book Carrie, by Stephen King, Carrie is the daughter of Margret White, she has created her own religion. In the beginning of the story Carrie is a senior at Ewen High School in Chamberlin, Maine. During gym class Carrie get her first period while she is showering, and she believes that she is bleeding to death. Instead of her class mates helping her they start taunting her and throw tampons and sanitary napkins at her. A light bulb explodes, and then her gym teacher, Rita
witch to live” says Margret White in the movie Carrie directed by De Palma. The witch in question is Carrie White, played by Sissy Spacek, a repressed teenager with telekinetic powers. The film is filled with motifs of blood, fire, religion, and the color red and the themes of sexual repression and bullying. Specifically the scene in which Carrie is locked in the cupboard by her mother after having her first menstrual period. At timestamp 16:27 the shot shows Carrie in the cupboard, sitting at the
Carrie, The Disliked Girl ‘Carrie’ in a book written by Stephen King published in 1974 tells the story of Carrie White, a girl being picked on by her classmates. Carrie happens to have telekinetic powers and while she is bullied, she goes berserk and destroys the whole town of Chamberlain. The major theme of this story is that Carrie is not liked by anyone and has never been liked. This will be argued through analysing the book and its 2013 movie adaptation in regards to the aspects characters of
Carrie, by Stephen King, and the Columbine High School Incident; looked at separately, they are to things that have nothing to do with each other. Carrie was Stephen King’s first major novel and a New York Times bestseller. Columbine was and incident in Colorado that happened in 1999, where two high school seniors orchestrated a bloody massacre at their high school. The two events occurred over twenty-five years apart, but when juxtaposed we can see many similarities
Fear and Confusion in films Psycho and Carrie In horror films, there is always one scene that opens up the perceived realm of normality to that of fear and confusion. Directors and authors alike use these scenes to show the change in the pace of the film. In both the movie Psycho (1960) and Carrie (1976), shower scenes are used to mark this epic turning point with sexuality, blood and voyeurism; the most important ingredients to horror. The idea of sneaking around and peering into forbidden
*WARNING SPOILERS* Laura Rapport 1st quarter reading assignment Carrie by Stephen King Genre: Horror Summary: Carrie is about a teenage girl named Carrie. She has telekinetic powers but no one knows this. She lives with her mother, Margaret White. Her mother is very religious. One day, Carrie gets her period in the shower, and her classmates laugh at her because she’s never had a period before. Afterward, Carrie confronts her mother about not telling her about periods. Carrie’s mother forces her
Carrie's Revenge in Steven King's Carrie The novel Carrie is about the chilling story of a girl and her power. Carrie White possessed a phenomenon, known as telekinesis, the movement of objects by scientifically inexplicable means, as by the exercise of an occult power. Carrie begins flexing her phenomenon and unleashes her frightening power upon a small new England town for revenge. The novel Carrie; by Steven King Starts off with old news reports stating how stones fell principally on
Dreiser's Reversal of Male/Female Roles in Sister Carrie The novel Sister Carrie seems to be the platform from which Dreiser explores his unconventional views of the genders. In the world of Sister Carrie, it would seem that the role of women as trusting, caring creatures, and men as scheming victimizers is reversed; it is Carrie that uses the men around her to get what she wants, and it is those men who are victimized by her. Thus Dreiser uses this novel as a means of questioning the popular
chance of getting pregnant, even if she uses protection. If she doesn't want to get pregnant she shouldn't have sex, and she should be responsible enough to suffer the consequences. For example, Carrie is very promiscuous and finds out that she is pregnant, so she goes and has an abortion. Next time Carrie finds out that she has HIV, well she can't pay someone to get rid of her problem so she has to deal with it. Why shouldn't she have to deal with the fact of being pregnant? There are many other
friend; Carrie would have to face during her high school year. I met Carrie my junior year of high school. We did not become friends instantly but gradually over time we started to talk. I was friends with her boyfriend at the time and always was there to talk to him and help him during lunch with any situation that would come up. He always came to talk to me about what was happening in his relationship with Carrie. I tried to give him as much advice as possible without knowing who Carrie was. There
Within Carrie there are a lot of visible themes that leave a lot to think about after watching the film. The first and most obvious to me, was religion. Religion was something that was hidden everywhere in Carrie, from her overbearing mother Margaret to her classmates that try to push her to the brink of insanity. This leads into the second theme that might even be considered the main theme, which is bullying and mob mentality. During the film, Carrie is noticeably different than everyone else, with
V.C. Andrews, starts off as a family of procreation, a family established through marriage, which includes the mother (Mrs. Dollanger), the father (Mr. Dollanger), and the four children: Cathy (the oldest daughter), Chris (the second oldest son), Carrie and Corey (the young twins). A conflict begins when the father dies in a car wreck, so the mother and her four children must move in her rich parents estate because they have no money and nowhere to stay. After the father's death, the norms of the