5/21/2023 0 Comments Carrie by Stephen KingWhen the novel begins, Carrie White, a 16-year-old girl bullied for her dowdy appearance and fundamentalist Christian beliefs, has her first period in a locker-room shower after a high school physical-education class. This linear narration focuses on the events leading up to Carrie’s cataclysmic slaughter of Chamberlain. Occasionally, parenthetical asides feature the direct thoughts of the characters in a stream-of-consciousness style. The other (and dominant) form of narration is a third person limited omniscient narrator who reports events objectively. The excerpts explore what caused Carrie to unleash so much destruction. The first is epistolary and comprises excerpts from newspapers, scholarly works, committee hearings, and autobiographies of survivors, the latest of which dates to 1988. It contains two different modes of narration. This study guide refers to the 2013 Anchor Books edition.Ĭarrie is set in the fictional small town of Chamberlain, Maine, during 1979. He has published 64 novels and over 200 short stories, winning several awards for horror and fantasy as well as a National Medal of the Arts for his contributions to literature. Today, King enjoys widespread recognition as the supreme practitioner of American horror.
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