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
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
of 1889, Carrie Meeber leaves her small town to find employment in the city of Chicago. Theodore Dreiser, the author of Sister Carrie, informs the reader that, "Self-interest with her was high, but not strong. It was nevertheless her guiding characteristic.". With her youth and innocence she hopes to seek employment so that she can get and buy all the nice things that she wants. Carrie does not have any idea how hard this is going to be. When she tries to find a job, she is scared. Carrie has no skills
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 altar
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
*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, 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
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
Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie is a simple tale of a young, pretty eighteen year old girl Caroline Meeber also know as Carrie. When Carrie got on the train from Columbia City to Chicago she had only few cheap items in her trunk and her sister’s address on a piece of paper. Being only eighteen she was still "full of the illusions of ignorance and youth"(Dreiser, 7). She was both afraid of the things to come and exited by the countless possibilities offered by one of the largest cities of the late
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
Carrie Marie Underwood works as an American Singer, songwriter and actress. Throughout her career as a singer, she is well known for winning American Idol, Grammies, Billboard Music Awards, American Music awards. She grew up in a farm in Oklahoma, where she didn’t become a believer until she was a teenager. As a winner of the fourth season of American Idol in 2005, Underwood started off her Christian path while entering the music industry. However, she went through struggles of becoming a singer
difficult to define the exact character of Dreiser’s "Sister Carrie", and his original intention. I would say, "as many eyes, so many opinions", so no wonder there are different approaches and interpretations towards the novel which is influenced not just by the reader’s reading or personal experience, but also by their particular philosophy of life as well as knowledge about the historical background. "Sister Carrie" can be read as a novel of desire, seduction, or the critique
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
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
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
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
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
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
English 11 Fiction Book Study A. Information about the author and novel Title 1. The title of the novel is Sister Carrie. 2. The title is appropriate for this book because the whole focus point throughout the entire point is based on the main character’s viewpoint, whom is Caroline Meeber, or Sister Carrie. B. Author 1. The author of the novel is Theodore Herman Dreiser. 2. He was born in August 27, 1871 and died in December 28, 1945. 3. Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of
Characterization in Sister Carrie The theme of unrequited love and unfulfilled ambitions, against a backdrop of a nation being transformed by industrialism and capitalism, provides the substance of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie. During the late 19th Century we encounter three main characters who demonstrate this underlying motif: Carrie Meeber, Charles H. Drouet, and George W. Hurstwood. Carrie will fulfill many of her desires for riches and success, but her insatiable appetite will leave