Book Worth a Look: Carrie

Stephen King- Carrie

By Chris Lemasney

I have just finished reading the classic book Carrie by Stephen King. It was a very interesting story, and I very much enjoyed reading it. The book is about a 17-year-old girl named Carrie White who does not have a very good life. First of all, she has been picked on by her classmates for as long as she can remember. Secondly, she has an overly religious mother who beats her, locks her in the closet, and calls her the devil’s spawn. And since she was an only child, she really had no one to talk to. However, Carrie possesses a talent that not many people have. She is telekinetic, which means she can move things with her mind.

Stephen King's Carrie

For many years, she has played with this talent, unaware of how powerful it could be. After a prank was pulled on her in the locker room by a girl named Chris Hargensen and many others, a girl named Sue Snell felt sympathy for Carrie and decided that she wanted to do something nice for her. Sue told her boyfriend, Tommy Ross, how she felt and told him to go ask Carrie to the prom. Carrie reluctantly agreed, thinking that there was going to be a prank pulled on her, which there was; however, it was not Tommy pulling the prank. It was Chris Hargensen. During the prom, Tommy and Carrie were voted King and Queen. They were completely unaware of the danger in that. As they sat upon the thrones, Chris Hargensen and her boyfriend dumped two buckets of pig’s blood all over Carrie. Everyone who saw what had happened, laughed; however, it was not the brightest thing to do. For poor Carrie, this was the straw that broke the camel’s back. She reacted in a way she had never done before. She used her telekinetic powers and used them for destruction. At the end of it all, not only did she destroy her school, but also her entire town.

I recommend  this book to just about anyone, especially if you’re a fan of these types of novels. I found it very hard to put down and I finished reading it in less than a week. It made me very eager to look into other books that Stephen King has written.