https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw Independent reading book entries of Carrie by Stephen King en-us 2018-04-19 13:41:09 UTC 2023-06-17 13:10:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253422701 The antagonist in my book is Carrieta White, a 16-year-old high schooler who has telekinetic powers. Her extremely religious mother believes she is possessed by Satan and has no mercy on her when she is tormented and made fun of at school.  ]]> 2018-04-19 13:48:12 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253422701 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253426867 Stephen King has written several other books, specializing in horror. He is know for his weird, scary, and quirky books. Carrie is one of his well-known horror books including, It and The Shining. ]]> 2018-04-19 13:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253426867 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253429237 Several things in this book lead to the anger and mental breakdown of Carrie White. One of the big events is when Sue Snell's boyfriend, Tommy, asks Carrie to prom as a friendly gesture. She arrives at prom with him and is drenched in pigs blood from head to toe. The buckets falls on Tommy's head killing him in the act. ]]> 2018-04-19 13:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253429237 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253440108 The book takes place in Chamberlain, Maine. Carrie and the other students go to Ewen High. Other settings in this book also include Carrie's house and the closet that her mother locks her in to repent. Some of the kids also go to hang out at a somewhat 7/11 type restaurant.]]> 2018-04-19 14:16:50 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253440108 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253442306 The part of the book that introduces the setting is at the very beginning where it talks about the backstory of Carrie White and the things she can do with her telekinetic powers. It also gives an example of what provoked Carrie to become angry and have her outburst at the end.]]> 2018-04-19 14:20:48 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253442306 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253442367 2018-04-19 14:20:55 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253442367 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253442452 I feel like an alternate ending for the book would be really cool if Carrie ended up with Tommy and living on her own without her nagging mom. I like the thought of her having some kids that also have telekinesis and Carrie establishes a school for other kids with telekinesis where they would never be made fun of like she was.]]> 2018-04-19 14:21:06 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253442452 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253442595 Christine Hargensen makes fun of Carrie and throws things at her in the locker room. She is joined by other girls in the class at the time. If I could tell her to knock it off and push her away from Carrie I would. She was going through a scary and embarrassing time and Chris wasn't making it any better or easier for her.]]> 2018-04-19 14:21:21 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253442595 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253442678 A drawing for the cover of the book]]> 2018-04-19 14:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253442678 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253442841 I would recommend this book because it keeps my attention. Things written in this book aren't normally written about and it provides a perspective that people wouldn't normally think about. It's a very unique book that adds a pinch of horror into it that intrigues those who love this genre. It isn't for the faint-hearted though because it does contain mature writing. ]]> 2018-04-19 14:21:47 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253442841 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253443003 3 questions for the book and their answers.
1. Why does Carrie's mom try to kill her? She believed that Carrie was of Satan and thought that the Devil needed to be killed in order to get rid of it.
2. Why did Sue Snell let Tommy take Carrie to prom? Sue felt bad for Carrie and realized what she took part in was wrong. She wanted to make up for it by letting Tommy take her to prom.
3. Why did Carrie go crazy when the blood was dropped on her? It reminded Carrie of a bad time in her life and made her even more angry at the people who had made fun of her and caused her pain.]]> 2018-04-19 14:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253443003 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253443130 A lesson that can be learned in this book is to always watch the way you treat someone. You never know what people are capable of.]]> 2018-04-19 14:22:19 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253443130 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253443159 A personal connection I have would be with Carrie and myself. She has been through several embarrassing situations, as have I. She's quiet and shy and tends to sit in the back of the room like I usually do. ]]> 2018-04-19 14:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253443159 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253443308 The point of view of this book is told from many different perspectives. It adds newspaper articles and book excerpts from the people who have witnessed the crazy events of Carrie White. It is told from the POV of Carrie, and some of her classmates/neighbors.]]> 2018-04-19 14:22:38 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253443308 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253443459 Stephen King's book is very unique and doesn't really connect with any other books or movies that I've read. It does include someone with telekinesis which a lot of stories and movies have been about but King's versions are very extraordinary and never heard of before.]]> 2018-04-19 14:22:54 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253443459 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253443635 There are a few protagonist in this book. Carrie's mothers, Margaret, is a huge obstacle in her life including, Chris Hargensen and her clan of "popular" people. This photo is of Margaret.]]> 2018-04-19 14:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253443635 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253443839 “High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.”
― Stephen King, Carrie]]> 2018-04-19 14:23:39 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253443839 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253443928 This book doesn't end with much of a solution. Carrie ends up killing everyone at the prom; the students, teachers, strangers. She also went look for Chris and her boyfriend and destroyed everything in her path. She finds them and kills them and then goes home to confront her mother. She embraces her mother but suddenly she is stabbed by Mrs. White and becomes angry. She "crucifies" her mother the same way that Jesus was killed in the Bible. Carrieta then makes stones fall from the sky that crush the house with herself in it. ]]> 2018-04-19 14:23:50 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253443928 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253444027 "Carrie was standing in front of them, perhaps 70 feet away. The high beams picked her out in ghastly horror-movie blacks and whites, dripping and clotted with blood. Now much of it was her own. The hilt of the butcher knife still protruded from her shoulder, and her dress was covered in dirt and grass stains. She had crawled much of the distance from Carlin Street, half fainting. to destroy this roadhouse-perhaps the very one where the doom of her creation had begun...The Chevrolet's tires screamed against the asphalt, and the car sprang forward like some old and terrible man-eater." -Stephen King, Carrie (pgs. 260-261)]]> 2018-04-19 14:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253444027 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253444079 3 songs that would be on Carrie's playlist in my opinion would be:
1. Hallelujah-Panic At The Disco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxYyHHR0Q1c  Carrie and her mother are Christians but for a religion that is supposed to except sinners, she feels like she is being pushed away and that her mother is a hypocrite(which I find extremely sad).
2. Mean-Taylor Swift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYa1eI1hpDE Carrieta is made fun of a lot and teased. She doesn't understand why people are so mean to her.
3. Here Comes Revenge-Metallica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdManKaxGG0 At the end of the book Carrie gets revenge on everyone who was mean to her or made fun of her by killing them. This song is would be on her playlist because it gives insight to what she might be thinking this entire time.]]> 2018-04-19 14:24:10 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253444079 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253444214 Facts about the author.
1. His full name is Stephen Edwin King
2. He was born on 21st September 1947, in Portland, Maine.
3. He has written under two pen names- Richard Bachman and John Swithen 
4. He has written over 49 full length novels, 7 pen name books, 5 non-fiction texts, and 5 short story collections 
5. He married someone names Tabithia in 1971
6. He has 3 children, Naomi, Joe, and Owen
7. When King was a kid, he witnessed his friend die in a train accident; he has no recollection of the event
8. He tries to write a minimum of 2000 words a day
9. He has won over 50 awards for his novels
10. Stephen King was inspired to write when he but different scenarios together in his mind and wanted to share them with other people.]]> 2018-04-19 14:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253444214 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253444324 Questions for interviewing Sue Snell, Tommy Ross' girlfriend:
1. Why didn't you got to prom just because Tommy wasn't taking you?
Sue Snell asks her boyfriend to take Carrie to prom but she decides to not go altogether, what made her decide to do that?
2. Were you surprised by Carrie's outburst during/after prom? Sue explains that she knew Carrie's was a little odd but I'm not sure she realized what she was capable of.
3. Did you feel strong emotions for Tommy when you heard he died or did you not really feel much for him? Sue Snell, in the excerpts from her book, seems to have gotten over Tommy pretty quickly. I would like to know how that was so easy for her because she seemed to really love him
4. Do you ever have nightmares about prom night even though you weren't there? I want to know if Sue ever has nightmares of is afraid that someone with the same powers as Carrie will rise up and cause the same horrific incident that Carrie caused.
5. Do you ever regret teasing Carrie or are you happy she had her outburst because of it and is gone so she's no longer a threat? Carrie had extremely dangerous powers and could have done some more serious damage had she lived. I wonder is Sue is glad that Carrie is dead or that she wished she could've reasoned with her.

]]> 2018-04-19 14:24:34 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253444324 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253444462 Who is that standing on stage,
Horrified at such a young age.
She is a but a bloody Carrie,
Admired by those who thought the situation was imaginary.
Now Tommy is dead,
Because he was hit on the head.
This magical girl just wanted a normal life, 
But instead got one filled with strife.]]> 2018-04-19 14:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253444462 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253444634 Carrieta herself does experience xenophobia. Once people start making fun of her and she gets control of her powers she gets extremely mad about it and starts to hate these people who made fun of her that she didn't even know. She learns to hate and kill people she doesn't even know because she was so traumatized when she was younger by her overprotective mother and bullies.]]> 2018-04-19 14:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253444634 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253444961 My own entry would be to add that the novel Carrie was made into a movie, several actually. There have been at least 3 theatrical versions made, each with their own unique spin on the book. The original is usually the one people tend to enjoy the most. ]]> 2018-04-19 14:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253444961 4801849060 https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253445137 An unexpected thing that happened in this book is when Tommy Ross asks Carrie to prom. Nobody thought that someone as "popular" as him would ask her to prom. They also didn't think that his girlfriend, Sue, would allow him to take her but she did. (Pg. 100)]]> 2018-04-19 14:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/4801849060/aeijenwgm7tw/wish/253445137