CARRIE

Stephen King

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The introverted and slow Carrie White had been teased by her classmates at Ewen High School for as long as she could remember.

Snakes in her shoes, copies of one of her love letters distributed at school, torn sheets at the Christian Youth camp, were just some of the memories that surrounded her younger years, not counting the time she fell asleep in the study room and woke up with her hair covered in peanut butter, or when she peed on poison ivy and got a skin infection, everyone called her an "ass scratcher" after that, but it was temporary, she was sometimes known as "defecio" and others like "mamarracho."

This time, at 16 years old, the teasing had reached a new level.

After the volleyball game, Chris Hagersen let out a scream that bounced off the shower walls.

- ¡ Re-gla ! ¡ Re-gla!

Carrie remained motionless, scared to think that something was wrong inside her, she didn't know where all that blood was coming from, but she did know that the mockery was as always at her expense, she was disconcerted but not surprised, enduring the looks of disgust and hatred. of her companions.

- For God's sake, Carrie, you're on your period! - Sue shouted - Clean yourself! - while everyone threw tampons and pads at her accompanied by insults.

The unpleasant act ended with the arrival of Miss Desjardin, (who could not believe that at almost 17 years old, Carrie knew nothing about menstruation) she had to put the pad on herself to take her to the principal's office and have her They will send her to her house.

Carrie was walking home, humiliated and in pain, when a boy falls off his bike after passing her and giving her one of his usual insults.

Would it have been her? Had she caused the fall just by thinking about it?...

One moment; in the showers, one of the shelves had also suddenly fallen without anyone touching it, the light of one of the lamps went out while Miss Desjardin was insulting him because she did not know how to put on a pad, and other inexplicable acts during his life, but nothing as serious as when she was three years old and a shower of stones fell only on her house while her mother locked her in the closet to rest and reflect on her sins.

How nice it would be if only with the power of his mind, he could somehow avenge all the years of insults and practical jokes of which he had been a victim. The mere idea of ​​seeing Chris and his henchmen screaming with their heads destroyed delighted him.

That day, Carrie realized that something had awakened in her mind, a strange fascination that had been dormant until then.

In the following weeks, Carrie set about training her newly discovered powers, moving and rotating the religious paintings on the wall of her house, closing the doors at will and lifting heavy objects in the air.

The prom is near, and Tommy, the most popular boy in school invites Carrie, due to the influence of his girlfriend Sue who felt responsible not only for Carrie's recent misfortune but also for the jokes in which she directly or he had indirectly participated since primary school.

Carrie is unable to contain her excitement and takes charge of personally designing her own dress for the dance as she did with most of the clothes she wore. This time, in an act of rebellion against her mother, she made herself a red skirt dress. wide, but tight at the waist, and made of a very different fabric than the cotton and wool fabric she has worn all her life, she bought some new shoes and a bra just for the occasion.

The day of the dance was the happiest of her life, at least Carrie felt that way, but a few minutes had already passed after the time of the dance and she was waiting anxiously. Had Tommy played a joke on her? In a short time the cars would pass by. of his friends to make fun of as he had expected. Maybe that would be best for Carrie at that moment.

Suddenly a slowly approaching car stopped and there was Tommy Ross, more attractive than ever and ready to take her to the school dance...

Tommy was not the only one to be surprised by the appearance of Carrie, who looked wonderfully well, suddenly seemed like another person, one to whom they suddenly felt attracted and with whom they had no trouble starting a conversation.

Carrie was happy and surprised at the same time, for the first time she was enjoying the feeling of being a normal person and now, together with Tommy, they were nominated for kings of the dance, the evening couldn't go better.

A practical joke, the worst of all, unleashed hell that Friday night in Chamberlain, the city would be covered in fire and blood, just as she was at that moment...

Read more !! SPOILER ALERT !!

The hatred that Chris Hagersen had accumulated for no apparent reason against Carrie was becoming more and more evident, but the surprise she had prepared for her for the dance was much worse than a combination of all the jokes that Carrie had been the subject of so far. .

Billy Nolan and his gang of filthy people went to old Henty's farm, taking advantage of the fact that the farmer was not there and with one blow of a hammer they killed some pigs to fill two buckets with blood and put them in the trunk of the car inside a portable refrigerator with enough ice to preserve it.

This was the first phase of the plan that Chris had orchestrated with her boyfriend Billy, who was capable of doing anything for her.

24 hours before the dance, Billy took the buckets full of blood to the school gym where everything was almost prepared, and placed them tied to a rope right over the marks that the king and queen of the dance would occupy, everything was strategically placed in order. So that it would be easy to access at the exact moment when Carrie and Tommy were crowned, this would not be a problem, thanks to the promotion of the vows that Chris had made at school.

Billy knew very well that what Chris called a joke was very far from it, that it was already a criminal act and he knew what this implied, so after the close vote, and while the school anthem was playing announcing the kings of the dance, Chris pulled the rope and they both prepared to flee the scene of the crime.

The blood fell on Carrie and Tommy, causing laughter to flood the gym. Suddenly the buckets fell, fatally hitting Tommy in the head, who collapsed in the chair. Carrie ran embarrassed towards the exit but someone put a blow on her and she fell to the ground leaving a huge red stain, which caused the laughter to increase.

Suddenly all the gym doors slammed shut and panic took over the attendees, Carrie was smiling without stopping to look, while some left through the emergency door, these were the only survivors, the irrigators turned on while the electric amplifiers  were still working, and the high-voltage cables fell to the floor covered in water, electrocuting some of the attendees and causing a fire to break out in the gym.

It was impossible to contain the fire, not only because of the magnitude of it, since the entire school was on fire, but also Carrie had caused the heads of the fire hydrants to fly in several directions. Gasoline from all the gas station pumps came out in spurts, which caused a raging fire that also reached the businesses that were nearby.

The part of the city where Carrie's house was, experienced the worst of the disasters, once the gas pipes also burst into flames, destroying and killing all the people in their path, there were few survivors of that night in Chamberlain, but Carrie had special plans for her mother and even more special ones for Chris Hagersen.

Her power had increased considerably and she could now do whatever she wanted, her revenge was underway, the people of Chamberlain were now experiencing the pain she had felt all her life.

Carrie was relieved when her mother's heart stopped, now would be the time to find Chris Hagersen and also give him what he deserved.

Badly wounded, she walked aimlessly and without thinking about the 400 people who had died that night, everything was already lost, her heart was dying, but in the midst of her misfortune, a voice, was Sue Snell, who despite everything continued to feel guilty, not for having encouraged the jokes against Carrie, but for having done nothing to stop them.

Sue was the last person to see Carrie alive that night, Carrie's heart was so broken she couldn't take it.

 

 

In this book, Stephen King tells the story of a young woman with a very special but misunderstood gift.

A book that you cannot stop reading if you like this literary genre.

 

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