Carrie White Essays

  • Carrie White

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    Carrie by Stephen King is not your typical teen novels about an outcast getting bullied. There is a twist in this novel. Carrie White, a senior at Ewen High School and was picked on since elementary school, has the power of telekinesis. She has the incredible ability to move and control objects or people with just her mind. Carrie’s mother, Margent white is an extremely religious Christian. She would lock Carrie in the closet to pray, say Carrie is a sin because she has her period, and punish Carrie

  • Carrie Character Analysis Essay

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    The book Carrie, written by Stephen King, is story about a high school girl named Carrietta “Carrie” White, who possesses unique powers know as telekinesis and how her high school classmates make fun of her up until she gets revenge on all who made her the “butt” of the jokes. Carrie is a very shy girl who does not like to stand up for herself. When it comes to other people, particularly girls, they bully and tease her about the way she looks, dresses, and her personal hygiene. It all began in 1st

  • Carrie By Stephen King Blood Quotes

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    Stephen King's novel Carrie tells the horrific story of Carrieta White, a teen with telekinetic abilities, an extremely religious mother, and horrible relationships with her peers. Throughout the novel, Carrie's mother plays a key role in inhibiting her social development. However, when Carrie gets her period there is not stopping her growth. She becomes a new person. Her telekinetic ability improves, and she is finally able to develop her own opinions instead of relying on Momma's. Blood serves

  • Comparing Cinderella And Stephen King's Cinderella

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    children’s books and movies seem to. This fairy tale ends with a dead Prince Charming, a dead murderous stepmother, the ball ablaze in the background of a disaster, and the main character found dead in the street. This fairy tale is Carrie by the novelist Stephen King. Carrie, in certain aspects, is similar to Cinderella in the sense that she struggles with many of the same things, such as her abusive and neglectful mother, very much like Cinderella’s abusive

  • Carrie Film Analysis

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    The film Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976) follows the protagonist Carrie White, Sissy Spacek, who is a shy high school student residing in a small town. After receiving her first period, she acquires telekinetic powers, which turns her world around; especially since she did not understand what the change meant for her as a new woman. Although Carrie is a horror film, the underlying meaning points to feminism as it embarks on the discovery of power, and threatening the patriarchal order. Carrie is a feminist

  • How Does Carrie White Show Depression

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    Is Carrie White in the Stephen King’s movie, Carrie, suffering from depression? Mental illness and psychological instability has for quite some time been a fixture of American horror movies. From mind flights to depression to insanity, the theme of mental issue often drives the plot in these films. The National Institute of Mental Health says that depression is more than being unhappy but is a severe mood disorder. According to the American Psychiatric Association, “Depression (major depressive

  • Carrie By Stephen King Research Paper

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    moves on. But, does that truly help the victim? Does Carrie White ever truly feel better or safe? The world has evolved so much overtime, yet there are still lessons to learn from Carrie. Stephen King introduces readers to a world of supernatural beliefs, social injustice, and the evil within oneself which influenced the making of the brilliant Carrie. Learning about King’s life will help readers better understand the inspiration behind Carrie. On September 21st, 1947, Stephen King was born in Portland

  • Fear, Control And Power In Brian De Palma's Carrie

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    Brian De Palma’s 1976 film Carrie is about a teenage girl, named Carrie White (Sissy Spacek), who is sheltered and abused by her religious mother, Margaret (Piper Laurie). After Carrie learns to control her telekinetic powers, she finally stands up to her mother to tries to live a normal teenage life by going to her high school prom. By framing Carrie and Margaret in specific camera angles and positions, the film uses these formal elements the show the dynamics of fear, control, and power that exist

  • Textual Analysis Of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

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    Alfred’s Psycho was one to shift classic form of horror and lead to transformation of horror conventions. The horror genre used to involve “monster movies” where man battled with supernatural creatures. Hitchcock however portrayed the ‘monster’ as a soul living in the head of Norman bates. Psycho, taken from its name has psychological horror. The motivation of this production was to simply entertain people, giving them the fear experience they want. Although Psycho was solely crafted to entertain

  • What Is The Primary Purpose Of Sister Carrie

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    Title: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, 1871-1945. Lived in Terre Haute, Illinois, Hollywood, California. Sister Carrie originally published in 1900. Four Main Characters: Carrie Meeber – A young girl infatuated with the cosmopolitan consumerism of Chicago and constantly dissatisfied with her life. She first abandons her sister and brother-in-law to live with Drouet, unwed, and then leaves Drouet for Hurstwood, whom she discards as a result of his personal decline and her rise to fame. Charlie

  • Imagery And Symbolism In Carrie By Susan Snell

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    Carrie is a book that has a lot of symbolism in this book is a lot about a girl that has the ability of telekinesis. Also made fun of by all the girls since she was little. They honestly feel bad after they made her when she snapped. The one that felt so bad was Susan Snell One symbolism is that there was a lot of blood from the beginning to the end and the color red is based on the human emotion angry. They made fun of her for her not, know she started her period and they made fun of her. That

  • Carrie By Stephen King Essay

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    Stephen King’s novel Carrie is about a teenage girl Carrie White, a teenage girl who is constantly getting bullied by people at school. Carrie is an outcast at school and home because of her mother, Margaret White. Margaret has unusual religious beliefs, keeps Carrie sheltered at home from the outside world, and teaches Carrie that bodily functions are sinful. Margaret’s left Carrie with a lack of social skills, making Carrie an easy target for bullies. Instead of Carrie standing up for herself,

  • Four Dimensions Of Editing In Film

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    The Four Dimensions of Editing in Film In film making there are four different types of aspects. The four dimensions of editing are the spatial connection, temporal connection , graphic connection and the rhythmic connection. These four dimensions can be interpreted through looking at two very well known movie excerpts: The “Shower Scene” from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film, Psycho and the “Odessa Steps” sequence from Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 film, Battleship Potemkin. Not only the rhythmic but the

  • Love In Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms

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    Hearts beating, fingers trembling, love is one of the most complex emotions people experience every single day. Love, a controller of actions, can influence actions to the point where one is lost in an illusion. In A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, Catherine Barkley meticulously creates an illusion of love in order to fulfill her desires thereby leading Frederic, an oblivious man lost in an illusion, into an escape from reality. Catherine begins her plan by replacing the role of two important

  • Courtly Love In Twelfth Night

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    The Antithetic Ways of Love Love appears to materialize whenever, however, and to whomever it pleases, not often leading its victim to consider its many forms. Courtly love, established in the medieval days, and romantic love, a more popular present-day form of love, both play a role in society and in William Shakespeare’s influential play, Twelfth Night. Additionally, Noël Bonneuil’s article, “Arrival of Courtly Love: Moving in the Emotional Space,” as well as Camille Slight’s, “The Principle of

  • The Theme Of True Happiness In Little Women

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    True Happiness in Little Women In the beginning of Little Women, Meg, Amy, and Jo all had dreams of how their lives would play out. At the conclusion of the book none of those dreams had come true, yet each girl was happier with her life then she would have been with her imagined castle. Meg fancied a life of riches and luxury. Jo's ideal “castle in the air” was to be a famous author and own a stable of fine horses. Amy wished to be a famous artist and live in Rome. These dreams may have been

  • Carrie Baldwin In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's '

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    Carrie Baldwin is a sweet, innocent young woman of twenty years old. She is stunningly gorgeous, all voluptuous curves with wavy brown hair and big blue eyes, but the most appealing thing about Carrie is that she has no idea that she's a knockout. Her heart is the most beautiful thing about her. She was closest to her mother, Helen Baldwin, who passed away two years ago right after Carrie graduated high school. Helen always took care of Carrie: she was the apple of Helen's eye and Helen encouraged

  • Analysis Of Before He Cheats By Carrie Underwood

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    life struggles, or personal experiences. One artist that has established a legacy by telling stories of heartbreak or tragedy through her personal experiences and powerful imagery in her songs is Carrie Underwoof The song that I will be breaking down for you today by Underwood is, “Before He Cheats.” Carrie Underwood illustrates how her boyfriend is “cheating” on her but in reality she's just imagining that her boyfriend is cheating on her with a “beach-blonde” woman. She doesn’t have any real evidence

  • Carrie Compare Contrast Essay

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    Thirty-seven years ago, 1976, the movie Carrie was made. It is a horror film based on a novel by Stephen King. In the original movie Carrie was played by Sissy Spacek, who made the first film famous. Now it is the year 2013, almost four decades later, and there is a remake of the movie. Carrie is now played by a young teen, Chloe Grace Moretz. Even though it is two different people playing Carrie’s role, both Sissy and Chloe “nailed” her part. They were both miserable teens with a psychotic mother

  • Arrival Scene

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    entrance – a kind of tunnel - is located at the bottom of the ship that is hovering above them. The tunnel appears like an elevator well; they are at its bottom looking up to the top where a bright light is visible. Miraculously the characters are able to walk up the wall. First this is shown as if they were walking on the ground normally. However, when they are near the light source the scene is upside down (Figure 28). The light conditions and the tunnel’s texture create an unfamiliar atmosphere