Plot summary

A book utilizes fictional documents to frame the story of Carrie (short for Carriettthe) White, a adolescent from either Chamberlain, Maine, who has been bullied home for years by her vindictive Christian fundamentalist mother, Margaret White.

She doesn't fare lot better at her school, Thomas Ewin High School; at the beginning of the novel, she has her 1st period while showering after her physical education class. Carrie, world health organization is terrified, has there is no conception of menses; her mother never spoke to her astir it, & she has been the social ishmael throughout highschool. However a thought that this can be Carrie's number 1 time period never occurs to her schoolfellow; instead of sympathizing by using a frightened Carrie, it let it run as an chance to taunt her, throwing tampons and sanitary napkins at her instead of helping. Gymnasium teacher Miss Desjardin understands what is running in & immediately wants a more girls barred from either attending a coming school prom as punishment.

Still, Carrie bit by bit discovers that she has telekinetic powers. Carrie seeks to keep these powers in check, possibly though she is high-pressure pressed to the hilt.

Meanwhile, Sue Snell, one of a girls world health organizatiin got sooner teased Carrie, begins to sense contrite for her participation in the locker room trick, requires pity on her & offers to turn into her friend. Sustaining promenade convenient forthcoming, Eugene sue sets Carrie higher by having her beau, Tommy Ross (a class hunk).

Notwithstanding, Chris Hargenson (a girl world health organization hates Carrie & helped instigate a earliest episode in the showers) is incensed that she is unable to attend promenade. For retaliation, she & her young man, Billy Nolan, decide to rig the election for promenade queen so that Carrie may win, then hatch a subsequent project to humiliate her ahead of the prom-goers.

It's the project that Chris might before long regret. Fallowing drenching Carrie & Tommy within pig's blood, Carrie is eventually pushed across a edge. Perceiving everyone to become roast her (non everyone was), she eventually demonstrates a fully burden of her telekinetic powers, wreaking her revenge in her panic-stricken schoolmate.

When inducing the massive fire that destroys Thomas Ewin High School & trapping near everyone in, Carrie gets retaliatiin on Billy & Chris (world health organization got fled). So, fallowing burning most of downtown Chamberlain, comes back page to look at her mother, world health organization stabs Carrie in the shoulder by having the kitchen knife. Carrie kills her mother, applying her psychokinesis to are causal agents for her heart to slow, & at last prevent.

Carrie, mortally injured however however alive, so makes her way to the roadhouse in which her father had drunk the nighttime she was conceived (he additional-or possibly-less raped her mother, world health organization felt that even though it were married, it was however a sin to have it off), intending to kill it. However she succumbs to blood loss prior to she might run then. Sue Snell finds Carrie collapsed around a car park of the roadhouse & Carrie dies in her arms, the knife however protruding from either her shoulder. Carrie got believed that Eugene Eugene sue & Tommy experienced placed her higher for a prank, however she utilizes her psychokinesis to read around of Sue &, in one of the book's sir thomas more uplifting moments, finds there are no animus towards her.

A novel as well includes fictitious news accounts detailing a town's destruction, a aftermath, "interviews" from either either survivors & transcripts from court redeeming on a investigation. a letter at the prevent of the book foreshadows a lassie by using the equivalent telekinetic abilities when Carrie.

A film finishes otherwise. First, Carrie kills her mother by impaling her by having kitchen knives &, later on, feels shamed & forces a home to collapse onto her, committing suicide. Each a film & a book watch Carrie death within guilt for killing her mother, however a film has her committing suicide, when a book has her death of telekinetic exhaustion. When this scene, Eugene sue is dreaming of the instance later, in which she is laying a bit of flowers in Carrie's grave. When she bends down, a all-fired h& arises from either the ground and grabs her. Stephen King said that he wished that he got thought of the ending himself. When the select few watch this when a nice shock to prevent by having, others view it as as well tremendously of a ludicrous prevent to one of horror's further good films.

Carrie draws hard parallels between a onset of the title character's adolesence, especially her menstruation and sexuality, and her psychic powers.

Movie and musical adaptations
Brian de Palma directed a film version of Carrie within 1976 with Sissy Spacek as Carrie. Amy Irving, William Katt, Betty Buckley, Piper Laurie, Nancy Allen and John Travolta are also featured. The very much-belated & poorly-received sequel appeared within 1999; it featured another girl sustaining telekinetic powers (world health organization is yet revealed to use at times shared a father sustaining Carrie), however the overall plot was painfully similar to the number one story. The TV movie remake was released inside 2002, but a 1976 version is widely repute superior within each system & fidelity to the source poop.

Although universally marketed as a horror story, a independent appeal of "Carrie" has been as a sad & emotionally incapacitating story of existence excluded & victimised. the film & book locate a cult below that includes several world health organization had blustery at school or even fanatic parenting. It was a number one horror film to be nominated for Oscar, for a performances of Sissy Spacek & Piper Laurie; it as well won the gr& prize at Avoriaz film festival and Sissy Spacek was rewarded by using "Best Actress" per Western National Society of Film Critics Awards.

The 1988 Broadway musical, starring Betty Buckley, Linzi Hateley, and Darlene Love closed after sole 5 performances & Sixteen previews. An English popular opera clean across Greek tragedy, a indicate was such the infamous turkey it provided the title to Ken Mandelbaum's survey of theatrical disasters, Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops. A 1976 film did include an unusual soundtrack of heavily classical music, which was widely praised & added to the Gothic atmosphere of the film.

ISBN numbers
ISBN 0606008233 (prebound, 1975) ISBN 0385086954 (hardcover, 1990) ISBN 1567800572 (paperback, 1992) ISBN 0816156883 (library binding, 1994, Large Nature and severity Edition) ISBN 8401499666 (hardback, 1999) ISBN 0671039733 (softback book, 2000) ISBN 0606205942 (prebound, 2001) ISBN 0609810901 (softback, 2001) ISBN 0671039725 (soft-cover book, 2002) ISBN 8401498880 (hardback) ISBN 0743470605 (mass market paperback)