Carrie - Stephen King

...intertwined to make the fictional Carrie White. Carrie was Stephen King's first novel, the main success of the book does lie in the film starring Sissy Spacek as Carrie who was nominated for an Oscar for her brilliant acting role. Carrie is probably the only film adaption from one of his books that he has been satisfied with and enjoyed as he seemed furious with Stanley Kubrick's the shining and decided to oversea a new version of the film. Carrie ...
...into the story. Carrie is a deeply enthrawling read and i would recomend it as the first Stephen King book to anyone to read the writting style and story is complex and deeply emotional i felt like crying in certain spots tragedy mixed with joy the mood changes like the weather and may suprise the reader in many places.The book does not consist of chapters which may suprise the reader but with a storyline so intense it will grip you all the way ...

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...we’re told early on that Carrie and her mother are both overweight to varying degrees, but with the mental image of Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie in my head it was hard to picture them any other way. As someone who has seen and enjoyed the movie a few times, stumbling across a hardback version of the book in a second-hand shop for the bargain price of 29p made it an obvious puchase – heck, at that price any book is an obvious purchase! ...
...Margaret. Her father died before Carrie was born. The community is fearful of the White family, with Margaret keen to protect her daughter from the sin that she sees all around the neigbourhood, described in several painful episodes in the novel. We learn that Carrie is abused by her mother, who has attempted to murder her child several times. Whether this is to protect her from sin or to prevent the girl’s latent powers emerging is left ambiguous ...

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...was not very much. Carrie was his first book (the first of many) and was accepted for publication in 1973 by Doubleday publishers. This meant that King would be able to leave his teaching job and be able to write full time, which he did! (end of history lesson!) The book I have is certainly not a first edition although it was the second King book that I bought (the first being Salem's Lot - look out for a new review coming! lol). The book is available ...
...name of Carrietta White. Carrie is a strange girl, reclusive and ostracised by her peers at the local high school. Things come to a head when she gets her first period (at the age of 17) in the girls locker room. The other girls are exceptionally cruel and victimise her for her naiveness (she thinks she is bleeding to death). As you read further on you discover that Carrie has always been strange. Her mother is fanatically religious and whilst ...

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...brief outline of the story. Carrie is a teenager who is bullied at school and tormented by her mother at home. She discovers that she has telekinetic powers. After being cruel to Carrie another pupil at school, sue, persuades her boyfriend to take Carrie to the prom. The evening seems to go well but others have a nasty surprise in store for Carrie. They fix it for her and her date Tom to become prom King and Queen, then when they are on stage they ...
...happened concerning the main character Carrie white. I believe King’s intention is to give different sides to the story and also to make it appear as an account of actual events. The film is a pretty good interpretation of the book mostly. It describes Carrie’s experiences at school and her relationships with her mother. However, the endings are different. In the book, after destroying the school hall, Carrie goes on to cause loads more ...

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...read (or seen the movie) Carrie yet?? I wouldn't dare to call myself a fan of Stephen King if I haven't. Not only it's his first book, published in 1974, the first of the neverending row of his bestselling novels, but it's nothing but pure horror story. I admired every aspect of it, the narrating, the dialogues, environment and characters. I think it's the characters that turned Carrie into a legend. The storyline The beginning couldn't be more ...
...Anything besides people's hearts. Carrie White is a loner, this kind of an unliked, disdained and occassionaly made fun of weirdo, part of that label comes thanks to her mother Margaret being a self-punishing Christian freak who tries her best to keep Carrie in her shell, for her own good, as she blindly believes. Carrie's just 16 and she's been going along with the mad mother for a while, she's accustomed herself to such a life. However, it's not ...

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...is the central character. Carrie is a social misfit, a high school girl with no real friends to speak, with few social skills, and with a mother best described as a religious fanatic who sees sin everywhere. Small wonder then that Carrie is as maladjusted as she is. The result of these circumstances is a girl very similar to somebody you knew at school, the quiet girl in the corner who never seemed to get on. Therein lies much of the novel's genius. ...
...writer, and puberty brings to Carrie more than her monthly flow. When she starts to develop strange telekinetic powers, moving objects through force of will alone, the stage is set for a terrifying spree of supernatural vengeance, kicked off by the cruellest prank yet, an attempt to humiliate her at the high school prom. That particular night of horror has become legend, and you might already be familiar with the bucket of pig's blood, the unfortunate ...

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Carrie is Stephen King's first novel. Written in 1973, Carrie would have been scrapped if it weren't for King's wife who encouraged him to continue writing. The version I read has an introduction written by Stephen King himself that explains how he came about the novel. Carrete White is a combination of two girls King used to know at school that were both bullied and abused. Her story is to represent what must be going on inside somebody's head after ...
...sceptical. Plot --------------------------- Carrie White is one of those girls that has no friends and is at the centre of practical jokes and bullying. She has just started her periods, at the age of 16, in front of everybody in the showers. Carrie has no idea what is happening to her and thinks she is dying! The other girls see it as a chance to bully her further by throwing tampons at her cowering body. It is this incident which triggers off ...

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...the less popular... PLOT: Carrie White is a bullied girl, hated by her school and always put down, whilst never being made to feel that she can ever be anything better. When she finally starts menstruation in the school shower room at a late age and has no clue what is happening she is ridiculed even more by her peers for her stupidity. To make matters worse on arriving home she is beaten cruelly by her overly religious mother, who sees this event ...
...Carrie should be punished for. Yet Carrie has a secret which her mother refuses to acknowledge, and no-one truly realises the extent of- she has the power of telekinesis, the ability to move things or make events happen through willpower alone. Her life begins to turn around when she is asked to the school prom night by popular Tommy Ross (an idea brought about by his girlfriend after feeling ashamed for what happened to Carrie in the shower room) ...

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...of you who don't know, Carrie is a story about a girl who is bullied into religious fanaticism by her over-zealous she-bull of a mother, which obviously makes her an awkward social outcast at school. This leads to years of bullying that leave her numb to most things, untrusting, and bitter. After she discovers that she can control her telekinesis, or TK, ability, she finds new strength in herself to deal with her tormenters. She even finds courage ...
...report on the events that Carrie causes to unfold, or a transcript from a witness examination, or an excerpt from a book by one of the survivors of prom night. This means that you basically know what's coming, what the book has in store for you, but this sort of makes it more exciting, as you want to find out exactly How it happened by reading on.. This book is very much shorter than all of King's later works, which means that instead of his longwinded ...

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...to rectify that. I chose Carrie because I was intrigued by the idea that a man would choose to write about an adolescent girl in such a honest, revealing and painful way. My copy had a foreword by King where he says that Carrie was based on two girls he went to school with (one with a very religious mother, the other the typical ugly misfit), who were ostracized because they were different to everyone else. King then wondered 'what if these girls ...
...most talented director. King has Carrie wrecking the whole town on Prom Night; not just the school, as depicted in the film. This makes me more uncomfortable, because it stops being a simple 'girl gets her own back' story and becomes a mad rampage - it's harder to defend Carrie when she's hurting and killing people who had no part in her torment. As with most books compared to films, the book is a lot more detailed and the minor/secondary characters ...

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Carrie was the first novel Stephen King had published. Compared to his other books this is brief. It only has 222 pages, which any King reader knows is usually about a fifth the size of his normal novels. The book was first published in the UK in 1974 .It's strange to read his early work but you know where the talent comes from. Carrie was made into a film in 1977. I have not seen the full film yet . Why I like this book Carrie really hit home ...
...on. I purchased Carrie from my CO-OP were the book was on offer at £1.99 . Usual price £5.99 The Story The book is centred on the story of Carietta (Carrie) White, her relationship with her mother and her telekinetic ability. Carrie is a slightly overweight, spotty sixteen years old who is disliked by nearly everyone who attends her school. Carrie is the girl who gets bullied and doesn't stand up for her. Her mother Margaret White doesn't help ...

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...<> <> <> < Carrie appeared first sometimes in 1974 and brought King the name " master of the horror ". Actually, the novel 'Carrie' would never have been published if his wife, Tabitha King, had not hindered that the book lands in the garbage. The novel is available in the hard cover, however, also in the popular paperback issue which is also to me. This paperback issue is with theirs £ 5.59 for about 200 sides relatively favorably if I said. To ...
...<> <> <> < Carrie is probably the girl with one mostly compassion might have. Not only she is tormented by her mother if this dedicates herself sometimes again to her religious mania, but also from her classmates she is only annoyed and is terrorized. The probably biggest insult prepare her her classmates one day after the sports lessons. Carrie stands just under the shower and does not notice like she gets sometimes her menstruation first, because ...

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* iNTRODUCTIOn * Carrie the novel by Stephen King, upon release, recieved rave reviews being King's first novel and it wasn't long after that it was turned into a movie which was released 1976 starring Sissy Spacek as Carrie White and went on to recieve a phenomenal ammount of success. The movie is, and don't get me wrong, very, very good but it's not a patch on the novel. To me this is the perfect book. The story is simple and straightforward but ...
...them especially the torture that Carrie White (the novels main character) has to endure. You will not lose interest at anything throughout the entire book and you will want to read it time and time again. * wHAT'S IT ALL ABOUt * Firstly we are introduced to Carrie White who is standing in the girls shower after gym class and suddenly she sees the blood. She has no idea what this blood is or where it's coming from but the other girls do, including ...

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...are interesting. then when carrie gets invited to the prom by tommy who is susans boyfriend she thinks he likes her. she agrees to go and susan stays at home. the jealous teenages like chrissie who was banned from the prom are determined to get their own back and plan a horrible event to happen at the prom. well lets just say when it happens carries anger explodes and they are all trapprd in a burning school and carrie gets her revenge. when she ...
...lets just say this does not go to plan and all hell is let loose. you have to draw your own conclusions as to whether carrie is a innocent victim in all of this and weather her justice was right. personally given all that happens i believe it was................... ...

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Stephen King's - Carrie This book was published in 1974, and was his first book to be published but the 4th one her wrote; originally it was meant to be a short story but it then evolved into a complete novel. There is some controversy about this book and in some school readings it was banned because of its themes and features. The book uses real fiction documents like newspaper reports and other extracts to create the character of Carrie who is ...
...at school and everything keeps going wrong, when she puts herself out slightly more, someone always does something to ruin it, a chilling horror with many supernatural aspects, when it was created into film it was seen as quite scary and some say that it is still as scary today as it was back then even with the increasing amount of horror writings and film plots. Her home life is not much better and has an obbsessive christian mother who shelters ...

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