Carrie King: A Literary Analysis

Carrie’s mom in the 2013 film is more interested in harming herself than harming Carrie White. In the original version there was a sense of self-hatred, but in the latest version that self-hatred is magnified. Margaret White’s self-harm in the original version seemed like a ploy to increase the fear of her daughter. However, in Pierce’s version anytime she is on screen in the new edition it raises her undisclosed infatuation with self-harm. In this film, it is apparent that a rape caused her unyielding disgust of sex. This makes her mother less of an antagonist and more of a victim to sufferings rather than a catalyst. At the beginning of the film, Margaret is in the midst of giving birth, completely alone, and ignorant of how babies are made.

The book uses fictional documents, such as book excerpts, news reports, and hearing transcripts, to frame the story of Carietta "Carrie" White, a 17-year-old girl from Chamberlain, Maine. Carrie's mother, Margaret, a fanatical Christian fundamentalist, has a vindictive and unstable personality, and over the years has ruled Carrie with an iron rod and repeated threats of damnation, as well as occasional physical abuse. Carrie does not fare much better at her school where her frumpy looks, lack of friends and lack of popularity with boys make her the butt of ridicule, embarrassment, and public humiliation by her fellow teenage peers.

Furthermore, Carrie Bishop is very similar to everyone else on earth. She, although seemingly tolerant, feels superior to those of the African-American ethnicity. This is a lack of education on the part of the human race. She openly admits this in the novel. "I went to Doctor Booker with many doubts, I am ashamed to say. I suppose that at first I looked on him with the same superiority with which the Ohio doctor had plagued me" (Giardina 166). Over time, she became knowledgeable of Dr. Booker and the other black people in Annadel. Carrie learned that all humans are the same in most respects.

She describes her tenth birthday as being difficult. “But I did not have a cake times were too hard so I celebrated with ironing. I hope by my next birthday we will have peace in our land so that I can have a nice dinner.” This lack of even small luxuries such as a nice dinner, were common. It is easy to imagine that many homes were lacking in goods in the South, especially during war, because of their less industrialized economy. So, children like Carrie were often tasked with chores such as knitting, sewing, and washing. She talked about outings to church, often lamenting when she missed church on Sundays. She also missed being able to go to school. She recounts looking for her teacher, and eventually going back to school.

Carrie was more of a quiet person who never did anything to anyone. She worked hard on her grades. She wasn’t a very outgoing person. Carrie’s hair was dyed pink, she usually wore ripped jeans and plain t-shirts. Alison on the other hand was the total opposite of Carrie. Alison was known as the school bully. She never did her homework, and she was loud and outgoing and not to mention very mean. Alison had black hair and usually wore shorts and t-shirts. Both Carrie and Alison had blue eyes.

“Shut up, I’m crying.” I can hear her from across the cafeteria. This girl is the most annoying thing in the entire world. She literally only missed one point and she’s crying about it. Newsflash, it's not the end of the world. She does this all the time, it makes me want to strangle her! I can’t believe that someone hasn’t done it yet. She fits almost every stereotype at one time. Carrie is the perfect girl for the first five minutes of a horror movie. Little Miss Perfect Carrie, never got below a hundred until today.

In the opening of Sister Carrie, Carrie is boarding a train from her small town, Columbia City, to Chicago. Sister Carrie is set in the late Nineteenth century, and Carrie is moving to Chicago following the economic boom that succeed the Civil War after Reconstruction. Chicago was one of the largest American cities at that point, and Carrie joined the massive queue of wage-earners searching for factory work in large cities. While she is searching for work there are constant references to Carrie's infatuation with material items. A huge theme in Sister Carrie is the obsession with material items.

In the 1976s first adaption of Carrie of the classic horror novel directed by Brian De Palma. Carrie White is a dull withdrawn thin plain Jane, having all her classmates hate her, and having a mother who is a major religious fanatic. Upon unexpectedly having her first period, she gets bullied and teased by her fellow female classmates in the girls locker room. The gym teacher punishes the girls for their actions towards Carrie. One of them named Sue Snell feels particularly sorry for her actions; and asks her boyfriend Tommy Ross to take Carrie to the prom instead of her.

He received $2,500 for it. However money was still not easy until Doubleday sold the rights to Carrie to New American Library for $400,000. King received half. He rejoiced and bought his wife a hairdryer. This allowed Stephen to focus completely on writing and becoming an author, full time. His mother, Nellie, died shortly after learning of the sale of Carrie. Three years after it was sold to New American Library, Carrie was made into a movie, which was also a success.

Stephen King is perhaps the most widely known American writer of his generation, yet his distinctions include publishing as two authors at once: Beginning in 1966, he wrote novels that were published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. When twelve, he began submitting stories for sale. At first ignored and then scorned by mainstream critics, by the late 1980’s his novels were reviewed regularly in The New York Times Book Review, with increasing favor. Beginning in 1987, most of his novels were main selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, which in 1989 created the Stephen King Library, committed to keeping King’s novels “in print in hardcover.” King published more than one hundred short stories (including the collections Night Shift,

This quotation is important because it discussed the fact that young girls and women do in fact have an easy time defining their identity and who they are as an individual. Carrie really emphasized after the fact that you can be anyone who you want to be, but the fact that society puts expectations on you is what frustrated

Fletcher splits the book into eight different “acts”, all with their own special theme. In this humorous portrayal of her life Carrie describes her life through awkward moments she has experienced in her life and how she has learned from those moments. All I Know Now is a book anyone can read. Everyone can use some life lessons. Like How to Handle a Bully, or How to Identify If You’re a Bully. Some highlights in the book are the wildly uncoordinated moments at her old primary school. Also, in the “props” section of the book there is a list of helpful organization’s contacts from all over the world. These groups give support to many different issues, such as mental health, and substance abuse. Things I would change about this books is how Fletcher repeats some of the life lessons over and over again. In some parts this problems made the book seem slow and uninteresting. The fun hand drawn illustrations and a unique interpretation of the text. Fletcher brings new interesting perspectives on different

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Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie is a simple tale of a young, pretty eighteen year old girl Caroline Meeber also know as Carrie.

Characteristics of the genre the work does/doesn’t meet: The book is not true so is considered fiction, also Carrie falls in love with the Charles so it is romance.