1/25/2019 1 Comment Stephen King 2Stephen King September 21, 1947- Present Maine, USA
Major Works: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iqhGmRYtoESfw_0KpxiHF0o7z9Js3wQTy62j_nkzEUs/edit#heading=h.bh90h1qscybz Major Themes: Stephen King explores the following themes in his novels… -loss of innocence -abuse -battle between good and evil -ordinary people, when they come together can achieve big things against overwhelming odds *-The greatest evil that people do is victimization of the weak by the strong -how we easily let our childhood/adult fears rule our lives Novel Choice Plot Summary: My novel is called “Carrie”. This book is about a teenage girl named Carrie White who suddenly discovers her power of telekinetic abilities. Carrie was raised and lived alone with her religious mother named Margaret White. Carrie was abused severely emotionally and physically throughout her whole life. This is how Carrie discovers her powers and decides she will use them to make anyone who wronged her pay. And she does.. Carrie was raised by her mother and severely abused by her. Throughout her whole life she was treated poorly by her mother. Her mother was very religious and made her pray for her sins by locking her in a closet under the stairs. This closet plays a big role in (I believe) why she was so messed up. Carrie was also bullied badly at school. Ever since she started school. But when Carrie was seventeen she got her period in the girls locker room shower at her high school. All the girls surrounded carrie and laughed and threw tampons and pads telling her to “plug it up”. Carrie didn't know what was happening, she thought she was bleeding to death. Her mother never informed her of what a menstrual cycle was. After getting her first period Carrie started to notice that she could make things happen. SUch as moving things or turning a light on and off with her mind. As she uses her ability more and more it gets stronger. ANd she decides to use it to stop her mother's abuse towards her. There is a school prom coming up and one of the girls that was making fun of carrie in the locker room, named Sue Snell feels bad about what she did. To make it up to Carrie she convinces her boyfriend Tommy Ross to ask her to Prom. Carrie accepts Toms invitation and goes to prom. Unfortunately at prom one of Carrie's school enemies named Chris --- Decides to play a prank on carrie. Carrie, thinking it had been a thick from the front she uses her telekinetic powers to lock everyone in prom and starts to kill everyone inside. A she heads home killing everyone in her path. Her mother is waiting at home with a knife to “kill the demon possessing her daughter”. SHe manages to stab carrie. But before carrie dies she uses her powers to kill her mother. Carrie dies in the arms of Sue snell. A state investigation ( Board Of Maine) reports after an analysis of the Carrie white telekinetic attacks states that it was an isolated incident that wouldn't happen again. Analysis of Main Characters: Carrie White: Carrieta also known as Carrie is a shy, teenage girl who is sheltered and abused by her very religious mother named Margaret White. She is abused by her mother in a “unstable religious fanatic”. She is portrayed as a high school outcast who is bullied by her peers at school. When she turns seventeen she gets her first menstrual period in the girls locker room showers during school. This triggers and starts her to realize her telekinetic abilities. One of the girls who bullied carrie at the showers decides to right her wrong by asking her boyfriend to give carrie a date to prom. She accepts. After being embarrassed in front of the entire school during the prom, in a prank involving pigs blood, triggers carrie to use her powers to kill all her classmates and the town. Sue Snell: Sue is my favorite character in carrie because she does the right thing and she does things that you wouldn’t think a teenage girl would do. She is out of the ordinary. Sue is a popular teenage girl dating a boy named Tommy Ross. After bullying Carrie is the girls locker room she begins to feel bad and guilty about what she did. To make it up to Carrie. Or make herself feel better about what she did to carrie. She asks Tommy Ross to ask Carrie to the prom to help make carrie feel accepted. In that she does not attend the prom and she is a survivor of the Carrie White telekinetic attack. Theme: The theme of the novel “Carrie” is Need for love. Throughout the whole novel you will see that carrie is in desperate need of love and attention. When carrie uses her powers and hurts people she doesn’t seek out to hurt people but uses it as a way of protection. She did get any love or protection from her own mother, not at school by her classmates and teachers either. The only person that had a positive feeling for carrie I feel would be Tommy Ross. That may be why Tom's death is what worsened carries feelings and after he died she started to use her telekinetic powers to kill everyone around her. Even after Carries own mother tried to kill her she still loved her because she was so alone and desperate for love. How did the author’s life influence his writing in this novel? (2-3 paragraphs) The author of my book is named Stephen King. Carrie is actually the first book he got published so this book had a big influence on his life too. I may have mistaken but, in the introduction of Carrie it talks about how he (Stephen) was haunted by ghosts at the time he was writing Carrie and they said for him to write it and he had said the 2 ghosts combined to become Carrie. Confusing. I think the “Hauntings” of these ghosts are what made this story really gruesome and is what made the book the way it is. For his inspiration of Carrie while King went to college he worked as a janitor at a high school. He cleaned the showers in the locker rooms and imagined this scene where a girl got her period in the shower and everyone laughed at her. And boom! That's a life influences that inspired the book he wrote. I still think it’s pretty crazy that a small thought can turn into such a big thing. Works Cited: “Stephen King.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 16 Jan. 2019, www.biography.com/people/stephen-king-9365136. “Stephen King Bibliography.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 5 Jan. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King_bibliography. Stobbart, Dawn. “Stephen King: a Master of Horror Who Finds Terror in the Everyday.” The Conversation, The Conversation, 17 Sept. 2018, theconversation.com/stephen-king-a-master-of-horror-who-finds-terror-in-the-everyday-83758. Writing, Freelance. “The Writing Style of Stephen King.” FreelanceWriting, 2 Aug. 2016, www.freelancewriting.com/creative-writing/the-writing-style-of-stephen-king/. BookRags, BookRags, www.bookrags.com/. By: Bev E.
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Alexa Messina
2/3/2019 06:13:56 pm
What would you think might of happened if Carrie never killed anyone at prom?
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