Chris then had her friends rig the ballots for Prom King and Queen to ensure that Carrie and Tommy would win the contest. At the age of 15, Carrie unexpectedly had her first period while taking a shower in the girls locker room after gym class. Family information Due to seeing that orange haze in the sky from the flames burning all throughout the town, Margaret had come to believe the Devil had truly come to Chamberlain to collect Carrie's soul. At school, Carrie was made fun of by her peers and classmates into submission on a daily basis. Her clothes and her hair were very witch-like and she had a very religious background. Carrie kills her mother in an act of self-defense that can't really be called a victory, at least not in a traditional senseand yet, for a moment, Carrie looks up at her Throughout much of the movie, there were segments where different characters gave their accounts of the Ewen High prom night incident. class, who all laughed hysterically as they threw tampons, small towels and sanitary napkins at her while loudly chanting "Plug it up! Carrie also used her powers to cause several fire hydrants to explode, flooding the streets. Carrie then peered into the windows and watched students' faces smashed up against the glass like fish in an aquarium, seeing this made her laugh. In 2013, Hank Hunt's daughter, Kari, was attacked and killed by her estranged husband in a Marshall, Texas hotel room. Angry by her mother's actions, Carrie decided it was time to teach her mother a lesson too. Died Soon after that, while she walked home, a 5-year-old boy named Tommy Erbterverbally harassed Carrie while riding past her on his bicycle. Chris had Billy viciously slaughter two pigs at a local farm and drain their blood into two big metal buckets. She desperately wants to please her abusive, Bible-thumping mother, but even more badly, she just wants a normal life. In the end, an entire town was destroyed, taking 440 lives with it. This Margaret is much calmer, but she also tries to kill Carrie for the same reasons, too. Carrie explained that she was actually born gifted with telekinesis. At school, Carrie suspects that she has telekinesis. Carrie's name on the Prom King and Queen ballot. At the gym, Carrie was well received by Frieda Jason, who complimented her dress, while Norma and Freddy DeLois mocked her and the others noticed how different she looked. The younger Carrie was played by Jodelle Ferland who causes a rain of fiery stones to fall out of the sky like in the novel. She is also one of the few Stephen King protagonists to die. This surprised both Tommy and Carrie, who walked away as if nothing had happened. #1: She always has to be right. In the 2013 Carrie remake film, Carrie White was portrayed by Chlo Grace Moretz. Carrie begins walking away, ignoring Tommy's attempts to get her back on stage. Margaret then tormented, slapped, pushed, pulled and threw Carrie into the closet and Carrie became vulgar with her mother. The novel closes with a letter written by a hillbilly woman in Tennessee whose baby daughter is developing incredibly strong advanced telekinetic abilities as well. Age Afraid that her mother would come and caught him at their door, Carrie accepted at last. When Carrie accuses Sue of trying to trick her and forces Sue to experience the depth of Carries pain and misery, Sue offers her mind up to be read: (look carrie look When Carrie developed her telekinesis further she saw Carrie as a witch and, like Abraham, was determined to sacrifice her to god. On the eve of her departure, she told An-mei a story from her childhood, when she was a little girl about An-mei's age. Carrie, however, had heard enough about everything being sinful. Margaret liked and loathed the event. Plus, she always hated her parents for their sinful ways. This is traumatizing. Then, when Carrie told her that she was invited to the Prom, Margaret became incensed and threw tea at her. She locks Carrie in the closet and scrapes her own arms with her nails until she bleeds. Webcarrie got her period for the first time, she thought she was bleeding to death, they were throwing tampons at her and telling her to plug it up. Status The coroner's report lists Carrie's brain has a different cell pattern compared to other brains. Carrie then stabs Margaret with her TK with these house-hold objects crucifying her. Carrie (1976) When arriving at the Senior Prom, Carrie was dazzled by all the glamour surrounding her, and as the night progressed, Carrie's nerves began to fade and she felt comfortable while opening up to her peers and even made a few small jokes with some of the Prom goers who finally treated her equally and with respect for once. Stephen King states that the character of Carietta White, was based off of two real girls who he knew in his adolescent years while in grade school, both girls were bullied very much and one of them, like Carrie, had a fanatically religious mother. WebThis is disturbing for a few reasons: (1) getting your first period in public is the most embarrassing thing to ever exist, (2) poor Carrie had no clue what was happening to her and honestly thought she was hurt or dying, and (3) despite all this, she was tormented, mocked, laughed at, and assaulted by other girls in the locker room. In a deleted scene, Margaret grabs a knife and most likely washes the blood of her hands. Her death causes Carrie to destroy the house with her and her mother in it dying on the way. She serves as the main antagonist of Stephen King's novel Carrie and its three film adaptations, and the posthumous overarching antagonist of The Rage: Carrie 2. Carrie brings her down and cries because of what she has done, while Margaret is still alive. DeceasedAlive (2002 TV movie only) Miss Desjardin, one of the few lucky survivors, resigns due to her guilt for not reaching out to Carrie, for not preventing what happened on prom night and secretly for having approved the evil prank in the end, even stating that she would rather commit suicide than teach again. They also learned from this telepathythat it was Carrie White causing the destruction, regardless of if they knew or not who Carrie even was. In the original story, instead of dying by being crucified by kitchen utensils, Carrie slowly stopped her heart, giving Margaret a heart attack. Even when 2013 Margaret is about to kill Carrie, she says, "I should've given you to God when you were born, but I loved you so much, and I said, 'God, let me keep my little girl'." Chris believed that Carrie was to blame for her being banned from going to the Prom after she became the ringleader in humiliating Carrie in the girls locker room, when she received her first period. Margaret's constant scolding continued from Carrie's childhood to her teenage years. While on stage, Chris drenches Carrie in pig's blood. Finallythe incident also became in time some kind of "Urban Legend" in the town. She last wrote to her mother on August 19th, 1962 and later, became pregnant on December of 1962, though she was convinced that she was afflicted with "cancer of the womanly parts". Miss Collins was forced to slap her on the face and apologized, comforting her. I'm very worried! Born Carrie says yes and her mother kisses her on the forehead, telling her she loves her. Movie info Over time, Margaret berated and abused Carrie every day for sins the child may or may not have committed and she would often make the child repeat passages out of one of her many religious books or hit and beat Carrie with them. It is implied, she has decided to kill her daughter to "free her of Satan". Miss Collins later approached them and complimented Carrie, telling her about an awful, but "magical" experience in her teenagehood, at the night of her Prom. 1979 Carrie then falls asleep in the closet shortly afterward. It was the one and only exit that Carrie forgot to seal. She then screams smilingly in pain and then Carrie crucifies Margaret, so that she won't recover from her attack and continue to try to kill her. More of Carrie's telekinetic abilities were demonstrated on that same day. She Constantly Puts You Down. Though Margaret had love for her daughter, her illness warped her perspective on reality and prevented her from loving Carrie in a responsible, positive way. Eventually, she comes across Chris and Billy who attempt to kill her by running her over, but she uses her power to stop the car and in the process kills Billy, then sends the car flying into the gas station, killing Chris in the process. Scared, Carrie simply ran away from him. However, unlike Margaret White, she expresses a fascination with her daughter's natural abilitiesand predicts that her daughter will become a "real world beater someday". As Margaret tried to hit Carrie again, Carrie stood up to her mother and stopped Margaret's hand in mid-air with her telekinesis, preventing the hand from reaching her face. Patricia Clarkson as Carrie's mother Margaret White in Carrie (2002 remake). Patricia Clarkson portrayed Margaret White in the 2002 film remake. This Margaret is much calmer, but she also tries to kill Carrie for the same reasons, too. In this version, however, she doesn't try to kill Carrie with a knife. Kevin sighs that home just feels like another stop in his travels to Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Maine. Before she has the chance to do it, however, Carrie sends a group of knifes, pinning her against the doorway and killing her instantly, thus ending her life once and for all. After Carrie returns home from the Prom, Margaret then tells Carrie that before she was born, she was raped by her father, Ralph and after gaining her trust, she stabs Carrie in the back. 47 She then stalks her downstairs. Carrie then left the house afterwards. WebWhy does Carrie's mom hurt herself 2013? The school was rebuilt elsewhere in Chamberlain and the ruins of the former school are still there. Margaret didn't allow Carrie to have any friends, take interest in things such as celebrities, fashion, listen to pop, country, hip-hop, R&B, jazz or rock music, sleep with a pillow or even take showers, as Margaret believed everything was bad, evil, sinful and godless, Carrie only took baths. Carrie is shocked and stares at Tommy in disbelief. She clumsily attempted to flee the blood-splattered thrones while struggling to keep her balance. As Mr. Fromm read a poem written by the popular student Tommy Ross, and sarcastically expressed his distaste for it, Carrie shyly commented that she thought Tommy's writing was "beautiful". Chris and Billy eventually arrived at the school unseen and quietly lurked outside the gym patiently. She doesn't, however, die in this position like in the original movie. Margaret still did not want Carrie to go and began slapping her. Sue goes on to write a memoir about her involvement with Carrie White. She told Carrie that the boys always come after the blood and that all boys want from girls is "sex" how they all like to take virgins into their cars to do dirty, ungodly and blasphemous things with them. Carrie is consumed by guilt and pain following her Mother's attack and her self-defence against her which ends in her Mother's death. She then says, she thought that Carrie was a cancer when she was being born, Carrie reacts in pain and says it's awful acting a little aggressive on Margaret on the way. It also shows that Carrie was not consciously aware of what she was doing, because the prank and the subsequent laughter had put her in a temporary, catatonic state of mind where her inner rage took over and unleashed her secret powers which led to the subconscious activation of her prom rampage and the tragic destruction of the town. She faced the two who she needed to finally kill most of all before the night was over, before she was completely finished with her rampage of revenge. Due to her mother's religious believes, Margaret refused to discuss the concept of menstruation with Carrie, resulting in Carrie to think she was internally bleeding to death. She then made plans to move to Florida and start her life with the help of Sue Snell who felt sorry for her. In fact, her abusiveness comes precisely from the fact that she does love her daughter so much and wants to do anything to protect her from harm. He lived with his mother and sisters, and his father wasnt present instead, his mother, Deborah (Sheri Moon Zombie), had a boyfriend named Ronnie White (William Forsythe), who was abusive. When Carrie hugs her Mom, she says to kneel down and they talk about how she was raped. This tragic event later lead to The Black Party. As Carrie fell on her knees, Margaret stabbed her child in the shoulder with the knife/dagger. Margaret was very evil and abusive to her daughter, Carrie. When Fisher died at age 60, her mother and brother were left to plan her funeral, and during the preparations, Reynolds passed away from a stroke, some believe to have been caused by grief. In appearance, Carrie is slightly overweight with pimples on her neck, back, and buttocks. A few days later at school, when the incident had died down, Carrie was unexpectedly approached by Tommy Ross, who asked her to go to the Senior Prom with him. Carrie insisted she would go to the Prom, and that things were about to change for them. However, little did Carrie or anyone else know was that she was walking into a vile prank initiated by another girl in her class, Chris Hargensen, the main leader of Carrie's tormentors who ruthlessly bullied her, as well as all her life. Being that she has just killed A seamstress, Carrie made herself a dress for the night. At the end after Sue's words, Carrie's headstone cracks before exploding, you hear her screams. Eventually, Carrie made her way through the exit and out the lobby doors, losing both her high-heel shoes as if she were Cinderella fleeing from the Ball. Her fanaticism is proven when Carrie goes outside and sees Estelle Horan, the daughter of her neighbor, sunbathing. She can't just leave Carrie behind, what type of person does that. Biographical information Before she has the chance to do it, however, Carrie sends a knife pinning her hand into the wall. by Carolyn Steber. She then went into a church to pray, while at the same time, objects from the church such as pews, hymnals, and a communion set were thrown. During the entire event, Carrie seemed completely catatonic and was believed to even be smiling as she moved along. As a result, Carrie's mind lost sight of the gymnasium doors for a second and some of the Prom goers almost got out. Age In the third iteration it is unclear if Carrie survived or not and is it left to the imagination. Getty Images/LaylaBird/E+/Getty Images. She telekinetically pushes her mother into the closet and locks the door (in addition, she somehow welds the lock). Movie info She lies down on the bed with her. Both scenes were cut. Now she. Carrie's powers then manifested on the loose, bringing the house down over her. Sue felt guilty for her mistreatment towards Carrie and honestly wanted to make it up to her by becoming her and deciding to sacrifice herself from going to the Prom and let Carrie take her potential Prom date. She told Carrie that she had tried to kill her twice before during the first few years of Carrie's life, but she "backslid". As she researched, Carrie was approached by Tommy and was asked to the Prom. At Christian Summer Camp, her comrades played pranks on her such as hiding all her underwear and putting a snake in her shoe or short sheeting her bunk-bed. These last thoughts made Carrie suddenly snap. Margaret then deduced that "Satan" had began his work on Carrie, but the girl made it clear that it was her power and not Satan. Hearing this, many people inside panicked and that started a stampede. She studied "the body language of people being stoned for their sins", starting or ending every scene in one of those positions. 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