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Boekverslag Stephen King
Carrie
Geschreven door: | Ewoud (6 aso) [meer] |
Datum ingestuurd: | 13 december 2004 |
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Bekeken: | 2289 keer (5 deze maand) |
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(2002)Carrie White is a strange teenage girl with telekinetic powers. When she’s three years old, something weird happens: a rain of stones falls from the sky upon the house of Mrs. Margaret White (Carrie’s mother). Margaret is a widow and Carrie is her only child (Mrs. White, a widow, lives with her three-year-old daughter, Carietta). When she’s sixteen, Carrie has her first period, but her mother has never told her about ‘growing-up’, so she reacts hysterically (‘I’m bleeding to death!’). Carrie hates her mom for being so strict and strange to her, and because she always has to pray (‘YOU SUCK!’ Carrie screamed. Momma hissed like a burned cat. ‘Sin!’ she cried). Carrie wants a normal life, but that’s impossible; her mother prohibits her to have one (‘I don’t want to fight with you, Momma (…) I only want to be let to live my own life. I don’t like yours’).
Carrie has never had a boyfriend. Because she is an outcast, she’s abused and teased by all the other children in her class (they knew that pig poop was spelled C-A-R-R-I-E). That’s one of the reasons that make Carrie’s horrible life change into a bloody revenge at the end of the book…
Thanks to Sue, one of the most friendy girls from her class, Carrie is invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross. It’s a dream coming true for Carrie - the first step towards social acceptance by her schoolmates (Tommy Ross didn’t love her; she knew that. This was some strange kind of atonement, and she could understand that and respond to it). At the Prom, Carrie has a wonderful evening (‘You’re beautiful,’ Tommy said, and she became quite sure that nothing bad could happen this night). She and Tommy become Queen and King of the Prom, but Billy, a friend of Chris (who hates Carrie), spills two buckets of pig blood over her. She is furious: with her telekinetic powers, she closes the gym doors. Carrie is a vindictive person (I saw Carrie looking in, her face all smeared. She was smiling). It starts to rain inside the hall and a fire breaks out. At the end, everybody’s dead, and so is Carrie. She has taken revenge.
My Opinion
I really enjoyed reading this book. I like reading the horror genre, especially the books of Steven King. I liked this novel because it was horrifying, interesting and it kept my attention. King is a great writer, and you can almost feel Carrie’s anger, sadness, fear, confusion and embarrassment. King did a wonderful job at making an excellent, horrifying novel.
Book / Movie
The movie Carrie is made in 1976, with the fitting tagline ‘If You've Got A Taste For Terror... Take Carrie To The Prom’. When you watch the movie, it’s surprising how well King’s original story is preserved in the script. From the first scenes, you recognize almost every detail of the book in the film. There are a few differences, like two buckets of pig blood instead of one in the film.
In the book, there are many quite long quotations (half a page, a page) from books, newspapers… Some of those quotations (example: ‘Rain of stones reported’, page 3) are simply ignored in the movie: they’re not shown. Others (like ‘Ogilvie’s Dictionary of Physic Phenomena’, page 42) are shown in scenes in which Carrie herself looks into the books.
The end of the book is a little different from the end in the film. In the book, Sue (the only student that still cares about Carrie) doesn’t go to the Prom. In the movie, she’s the one discovering, at the last moment, the plan set up by Chris en her friends. She tries to stop them, but it’s too late. In the movie, Carrie doesn’t go outside before she takes revenge. And she only takes a firm line with the gymnasium and his occupants. In the book, almost the whole town is hit. She makes a tour starting at the gymnasium, to her house, and causes almost every building to collapse, burn or explode.
Sue has a nightmare: she visits Carrie’s grave, but when putting some flowers on it, Carrie’s hand comes out the earth. An unexpected, frightening scene, invented by the filmmakers.
In my opinion, the book is better than the filmed version. I think one of the reasons is that the movie is almost thirty years old; which is very long for a thriller to remain as striking as it was at its release.
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