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    and condemnatory male religious icons don’t border the female residents and shimmer down at them as they did in the previous version. Although some of the events that take place in the household are far from normal, the film gives no indication that Carrie is not in a healthy environment. By highlighting the normality of Carrie’s living conditions the director removes the focus off of the mother-daughter relations. In the original version, there was a sense of self-hatred, but in the latest version

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    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

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    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 Carrie White is a dull withdrawn thin plain Jane, having all her classmates hate her, and having a mother who is a major religious fanatic.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;

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    Carrie White Feminism

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    Carrie, the first published horror novel written by the famous Stephen King in 1974. Now the novel is about a young chunky, pimpled, plain teenaged girl named Carrie White. Who is horribly physically and emotionally abused all her life by fellow students and her pious crazed other Margret White. Soon she slowly begins to discover her telekinetic powers, but it would eventually be used against her many tormentors. Carrie was raised by her mother and throughout her life she has been treated terribly

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    Carrie White Biography

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    their foot to nake a living no matter what happens to ones life there is always a solution for the person to leave. Carrie White’s was not something planned but she came as an unxepeted marital rape which had an influence for themmother to end her lifr from the very first day she arrrived but becuase her prenscence in this world had apurpose the mother couldn’t end her life. Carrie grew up in a christian

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    this book I was a bit disgusted and sad because the main character is Carrie White who has telekinesis and hasn't told anyone and Carrie has been abused physically and emotionally her whole life by her mother and the kids at school and decided that she will make everyone face the consequences and Chamberlain, Maine is the small town she lives in with a small population of people and her mother Margaret White has raised Carrie very poorly and abuses her, and regularly was sent to the closet in the

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    May 28th, is a day I will remember for the rest of my life. Words cannot describe what had happened to my friends that prom night. Carrie White had some sort of special power, and that night, we pushed her. I realize now that you can only push someone so far till they break. I guess it all started that day after gym. Carrie came out of the shower screaming that she was dying. My friends and I realized that she was only just experiencing her first period and I told her to clean herself up and threw

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    Baker Channing April 24, 2017 Annotated Works Cited Carrie. Dir. Kimberly Peirce. Perf. Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore. N.p., n.d. Web. A teenager Carrie White faces abuse from her disconnected, horrifying, devotedly religious mom. When weird incidents start to happen around Carrie, she begins to think that she has telekinesis powers. Her life starts to go down hill when she is invited to the prom by Tommy, a jock from her school. She tries to let her guard down, but when she gets pranked prom

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    justify doing things by any means possible. Carrie, by Stephen King, is the story of a young girl and the sudden discovery of her telekinetic abilities. Carrie has been abused, both physically and emotionally, all of her life by her mother and her peers at school. Upon discovering her abilities, Carrie decides that she will make them all pay, and she does. Looking at the two of us, Carrie and I have the same personality type we are independent and like to

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    If I could ask the main character of this story I would ask her: Why did you want your phone to be an iPhone? Why didn’t you and Mackenzie get along? Did you and Mackenzie ever got into a fight? I would ask her those questions because there were somethings in the book that lead me wonder about those things. The first question I would ask Mackenzie is: Why did you want your phone to be an iPhone? As said in the book you fought over getting an iPhone with your mom but she won’t buy you the

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