Carrie
Stephen King's novel "Carrie" tells about a telekinetic girl who has been bullied by everyone all her life and finally gets her revenge. At the beginning of the story, the main character Carrie White is seventeen years old. The reader gets to know that she has grown up in a very special environment: Her fanatically religious mother Margaret White has kept her pretty isolated in a world of sinlessnes and punishment. Carrie has telekinetic power which she once made stones fall like rain with when she was four years old. We later get to know this was a consequence of Margaret trying to kill her daughter. As Carrie is at the age of seventeen, she gets her first menstruational period after a gym lesson while showering with the other girls in her class, not knowing why she is bleeding at all. She i very frightened and thinks she has to die. That is why the girls in her class laugh at her and throw sanitary towels and tampons. The girls are punished by their teacher, and most of them accept that. One girl, Susan, thinks she ows Carrie even more and asks her boyfriend Tommy to take Carrie to the prom ball to help her into society. He agrees, and Carrie decides to accept his offer, acting against her mother's will for the first time in
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Approximate Word count = 1640
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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