Life is stressful enough as it is. Tack on a crazy religious mother, telekinetic powers, and 9 years of traumatic bullying. The novel Carrie was written by an author that goes by the name of Stephen King. Bullying is a very serious problem. Most people don't expect revenge, but if it hits, and if it's coming from a girl with telepathic powers people better watch out. Carrie is a high school senior that resides within a small town called Chamberlain, Maine. Stephen King’s horror novel Carrie disturbs the mind as to her telepathic revenge on bullying.
The novel Carrie by Stephen King is a horrific novel to behold. For the first novel Stephen King published Carrie galvanized many readers: “Carrie was the first of many novels in which King blended
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Experts have found three types of bully prey “The third group is known as bully victims. These are people who tend to have the most serious psychological problems as kids.” (Bullying’s Effects). Carrie white was one of those select people who are taunted, laughed at, made the joke of, and jeered. Years of Carrie’s life had been spent in this Hell of jokes and games. Eventually those who suffer from this sort of psychological distress tend to have a cognitive fracture. The person who received this trauma happened to have telekinetic powers which is a buffet for a horror novelist to consume.
Bullying paired with telepathic ability is a mighty horror cocktail of fear and suspense. This particular novel by King makes one shudder with the detail put into this incomprehensible story. This novel shows no probability of being real, but the details force the mind to believe it is. Critics have stated “One novelistic terror of the collapse of reason” (Carrie, Book and Film). This was said because of how the novel bends the thought of how a young innocent 17 year old girl could cause so much damage with a supernatural ability. Bullying is a powerful tool to ruin lives, and cause severe
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Carrie has ensnared Sue Snell in her telepathic mind “Now the girls throwing sanitary napkins, chanting, laughing, sue’s face mirrored in her own mind: ugly, caricatured, all mouth, cruelly beautiful.” (King, 239) Carrie has replaced herself with Sue to show her what these years of torment feel like. Carrie was a disaster from birth she was not going to have a chance in life where it be later or earlier. Starting out at a disadvantage of having a psychotic mother she also had to deal with being the outcast of her school. Eventually people snap when put under a certain amount of stress, Carrie just snapped very early with no surprise because of her living conditions. Bullying has major side effects in this case the most horrific and
Every person has different personalities that they develop during different stages in life. Many personalities start with parents and how they educate their children. That is the basis of who someone is. Once you get older you start to finally try and figure out who you are. High school can be either the best or the worst place to figure it out. High school is usually thought of a new scary place when starting freshmen year. There are kids who will be older and you will meet different types of people that you might have never met before. The way parents treat their kids can affect their school life. Meaning that if student’s lives at home are not good living conditions that can cause a gap between other students at school. The movie Carrie made in 1976, Carrie was bullied at school but also in way by the hands of her mother who also bullied her at home.
Fiction books can teach students the issues with bullying and suicide. If fiction gets taken away students won’t learn what makes a bully a bully, why a bully bullies and what bullying can lead to in the long run. The novel Twisted is written beautifully by Laurie Halse Anderson. Anderson tells a story about a couple of people who all experience bullying and the consequences of bullying. Bullying is brought up a lot in this book. Tyler gets beat up, cyberbullying is involved and he gets blamed for it. Many kids are bullied in school and online and it often leads to mental illnesses or suicide. Fiction can teach kids why bullying needs to be talked about more because it’s a big problem.
The reading “The Terror” by Junot Diaz is a story I can relate to because of the emotional and physical bullying I experienced in high school which I was able to curb after informing my parents who took immediate actions to put a stop to it. Junot Diaz was narrating his experiences with fear after getting beat-up as an adolescent.
Bullying is a very prevalent issue in today’s society and Backlash is shown in multiple ways. A main instance of bullyinging in the book is expectations Breanna’s mom had of her and then bullied her into following them. When asked about creating Christian DeWitt’s profile by the police Bree was told by her mother not to tell the police anything about it she decided to go against her mother’s wishes. Her mother’s response when finding out Bree didn’t do what she wanted her to, “‘Can’t I trust you to do anything right, Breanna?’ Mom says in a voice as cold as her anger is hot, completely unmoved by my tears. I’m used to disappointing my mother. It feels like I’ve done it all my life. And I realize in that moment that maybe I am as stupid as she always tells me. Because deep down, I’d had this small shred of hope, some sick deluded fantasy, that she’d say I did the right thing by telling the truth” (). This is a horrible example what a mother should. First to tell her daughter to lie to the police is a horrible thing to show your kids is okay. Secondly, to shame her daughter into thinking doing the right thing is a bad thing is even worse. Lastly, what the worst thing is Bree’s mom actually bullied her. Telling her she can never do anything right and said it so much the result being, Bree actually believing herself when she started telling herself that. Bullying is also shown in the context of cyberbullying in Sarah Darer Littman’s book Backlash. There is an obvious example of this and that is when Christian DeWitt, Bree acting as him, completely rejects Lara and Christian(Bree) says very hurtful things about her. This is a horrible incident that unfortunately happens a lot in today’s society. Lara’s response to this bullying was suicide and that is never a good way to solve any problem but unfortunately, many people revert to it because of bullying. This is another reason how Sarah
Rachel Simmons was amazed there were so many books regarding aggression in boys, but was unable to find any books on the subject of girls’ aggression. The experiments that were conducted regarding aggression were also only performed using males. Many psychologists considered aggression to be behavior such as hitting, punching, name calling and threatening others as a male issue. Simmons discovered from the many interviews she conducted on women that aggression is just as much a female issue. In her book, “The Odd Girl Out: The hidden culture of aggression in girls”, Simmons interviews many women and girls who were victims of bullying, were the actual bully, and also people who witnessed the abuse. Simmons’ purpose for writing this book was to make everyone aware of the secretive way girls bully each other, and to show how they hide their aggression, which many times is the result of their own struggle for acceptance. This book was effective because Simmons also gives the reader suggestions to help everyone involved in some form of aggressive behavior know how to deal with this behavior, and the lifelong consequences it has on everyone involved.
While reading through The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls, a common theme occurred throughout the story: bullying. During Jeannette’s early childhood, she encountered bullying almost daily in a few places that her family had lived. Bullying is a topic known around the world but it is also something that is easily forgotten about. Bullying happens more often than anyone can count, and can have lasting and even deadly effects that some people do not think about. As stated on PACER’s national website for the National Bullying Prevention center, bullying is described as, “ a form of aggressive behavior in which someone intentionally and repeatedly cause another person injury or discomfort. Bullying can take the form of physical contact,
“Daisy, are you done with your book honey”, mom said loudly. “Yes”, I declared proudly. After all, it was a long and dry book at the beginning, and it did take a pretty long time. “So, do you want to tell me what it’s about?” my mom said inquisitively. “Sure”, I said, stuffing a piece of meatloaf into my mouth. “So, this book is called The Witchy Worries of Abby Adams. In the beginning, they introduce the characters. You know, like they do in every book. After that –’’Ding dong! “Oh my, I wonder who it could be!”My mother said, getting up from her seat to go get the door. “Hi Abby! Come on in. What brings you today?”Mom says excitedly. Abby? I thought. How strange! Just like the girl in my book. It must be a coincidence. “Actually Mrs. Holcomb, I would like to talk to Daisy”, Abby said. As soon as those words left her mouth, a chill went up my spine. How did mom know her? What does she want from me? Many questions were flying through brain. So much that I couldn’t even remember my own name. I can hear their footsteps through the halls. With every footstep, my heart would race faster, my hands would get sweatier, and my mind gets more clueless every time.
Remember being a little kid and being pushed down on the playground, being picked last in middle school, or being called horrible names in high school? Those are just a few examples of how people are bullied. A person who repeatedly physically or verbally torments or harasses someone in anyway is bullying (“Bullying” par. 1). It unfortunately happens almost everywhere. It’s a huge problem that is beginning to take over schools. Middle school is an especially troublesome time because this is the time where kids are just trying to be accept by others and they are the most vulnerable. Bullying damages children and teens in all aspects. (“Verbal” par. 4) Depending on how they are being bullied it can affect them physical, emotionally, and even physiologically. (“Verbal” par. 4) There are tragic stories of suicides and teenagers cutting themselves everywhere because of being bullied and finally they’ve reached their last straw. (“Verbal” par. 4) Which makes since because kids who are being bullied are twice as likely to commit suicide compared to someone who is not being bullied. (Murray par. 5) Suicide has hit number three on what kills teenagers in the United States. (Murray par. 6) Victims who become bullied are normally people who try to separate themselves from conflict. (“Bullies” par. 7) They normally are “loners” or “outcasts”, which makes them more vulnerable to become the victim. (“Bullies” par. 7) They may like different types of music, dress unlike others, or have a disability. (Petrocelli par. 3) Children who are being bullied often show common signs like crying and not wanting to go to school. (“Bullying” par. 4) Many say people bully others because they themselves feel like “outcasts” or like they have no friends but ac...
Bullying surrounds today's society. It is to the point where the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared bullying the third leading cause of death in between the ages of ten and twenty four (Thompson). Almost daily, a new story is broadcasted on the news about someone getting beat to death or killing themselves because of bullying. In fact, on April twenty-ninth of this year, a seventeen year old high school student got brutally beaten outside of school on her way home. She made it to her house, but with severe injuries. When she went to sleep that night, she fell into a coma and never woke up (CNN). Unfortunately, situations like this are typical, especially in teenage females. According to survey results recently collected, more than two thirds of students at Mitchell think that girls are more involved in bullying than boys because girls tend to act more catty and rude to each other. They usually attack one another mentally, emotionally, and socially, however, physical fights occur as well. Bullying is a huge issue at Mitchell High School that needs to be resolved promptly. To help dissolve the tensions that are constantly rising within the female underclassmen at Mitchell, they need to feel united and understand that they are all unique but have similar emotions and thoughts. The ideal result is that they'll come to the realization that there isn't a need for all of the bullying and fighting.
The documentary film Bully (2011) – directed by Lee Hirsh – takes the viewer into the lives of five families that live in various, predominantly remote, towns across the United States. All families presented have been affected by bullying, either because their child was at the time being bullied by peers at school or the child committed suicide due to continuous bullying. The film also profiles an assistant principle, Kim Lockwood, whose indiscreetness makes the viewer...
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 her husband before marriage. Margaret is very religious, so she refers to the Bible and this is a religious illusion. Thus, Margaret becomes very cruel towards Carrie believing that she does this for Carrie's own sake.
Writers have changed the lives of many people over the years. In times of situation that people do not want to be in, times of wars, poverty, near death experience causing one to be immobile, or even just to get out of this world the works they create gives people those opportunities to do so. Stephen King is a big contributor of his published works to people in every on every continent. He is a writer of both novels and short stories, a film director, actor and even screen writer of most of his novels that turn into movies, but is he mainly known because of his works in the genre of horror. Going from his first published novel, Carrie and one of his famous selling The Shining King have made history as the king of
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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. movement of objects by scientifically inexplicable means, as by the exercise.
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