Haunted by Stephen King's Carrie

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Welcome to Haunted Reader. I'm Elizabeth, and I'll sit down and tell you what book I've been haunted by. I'll do an in-depth summary of the book and give you some of my thoughts at the end. I mostly read horror and thriller books, but occasionally we'll have some fantasy and young adult books as well. A quick podcast update. From now on, I will be uploading new episodes every other week on Thursdays. As we are now hitting the busy season for my family. With my child my oldest child is in sports. My youngest one is old enough to go outside and play and how you can do things with us. So we'll be doing a lot more this summer. Alright, well, this week's book I'm haunted by is Stephen King's Carrie. Remember, my goal is to read as many Stephen King books as I can. So this will be the last one for right now. And we're gonna get into some other books for a little while after this. Warning. This book contains violence, abuse, talk of menstruation, and religious uh mania. So let's get into this book. Carrie starts in part one called Bloodsport. Carrie takes place in a town of Chamberlain, Maine. It begins with a newspaper article from 1966 about how Margaret White has extensive damage to her home when it rained down stones on it. Now we go to Carrie. Carrie had been bullied all her life, but no one knew that Carrie was also telekinetic telekinetic. Not even Carrie. Not until the shower scene happened, anyway. She was showering with the rest of the girls after gym class. She was a chubby girl and she had pimples all over her back and face and colorless blonde hair. The rest of the girls were done showering and getting dressed when Mr. Stardon, the gym teacher, came in and told them all to hurry up, especially Carrie. Carrie steps out of the shower and her first period had begun. Here is a clip from a college case study about Carrie stating telekinesis can show during times of great stress. Back in the locker room, Chris Hart Harginson cat calls, period. Soon all the girls chime in. Some yelling, period, while others are yelling, plug it up. Carrie was looking around, confused. At 16, the other girls assumed that they she knew that she had her period. Sue Snell yells, You're bleeding, and when Carrie sees that she is, she begins to scream. The girls began throwing pads and tampons at her while laughing at her. The chanting plug it up continued and got louder. Later on, after the big incident, which will be covered later on in the book, the girls involved in the shower incident would claim that they were surprised about what happened, even though they had all been bullying her nonstop her whole life. Back in the shower, Carrie backs into the corner and slumps down. Sue realizes just as the gym teacher comes in that this must be Carrie's first period. An expert from the case study states that Carrie's late period and the traumatic shower event triggered Carrie's powers. Back in the locker room, the other girls went to their next class.

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Starden slaps Carrie to try and get her to calm down. She tells Carrie to clean herself up, and Carrie tells her she is bleeding to death and leaves a bloody handprint as she reaches out for Mr. Starden on her white shorts. Mr. Starden tells Carrie to grab a pad and asks her why she is acting like this and asks asks if she's just acting like it's her first, period. Carrie asks, period, and the teacher realizes it really is her first. Carrie steps closer to the teacher and a rack of bats fall over in the corner. Trying to explain the teacher is trying to explain how to use the pad, and the overhead light explodes. Here we have an excerpt from the case study about Carrie. Carrie was born September 21, 1963. Her mother gave birth alone in her home since Carrie's father passed months earlier. Neighbors heard her screaming and eventually called the cops. When the cops arrived, they saw that Mrs. White had gave birth by herself in her room and cut the cord with a kitchen knife. No one was sure if Margaret knew she was pregnant because she kept saying she thought she had a womanly cancer and that even though she was married, sex was still a sick sin. Back at the school, Carrie's teacher takes her to the principal's office to ask if Carrie could be allowed to go home early. The principal is talking and keeps getting Carrie's name wrong. When she finally snaps and yells at him that that is not her name, and an ashtray flies off his desk. As she gets up to leave, Carrie tells him how they all threw things at her and laughed at her. After she leaves, the principal asks what happened, and the teacher explains that Carrie had got her first period today in front of everyone. They both agree she's a little older than normal for her first period, and Mr Stardon explains Carrie didn't even know what a period was, and that's when the principal tells her about how religious Carrie's mother is. Mr. Starden tells the principal that it was Chris and her usual gang of girls, and he tells her to talk to them tomorrow and make sure the punishment is fitting. Carrie was walking home thinking of revenge against those who bullied her and thinking of the Bible quotes her mother would tell her if she could overhear her thoughts. She thinks about how the bullying started when she was young, and her mother would make her take a Bible to school and told her to get down on her knees and pray before lunch. So Carrie did so. And when she did, everyone started to laugh at her, and she never prayed at school again. But she never told her mom that. Carrie and her mom fought about her going to youth camp, but Carrie saved up her money and paid for herself to go. And she was bullied relentlessly until she had to call her mom to come get her. Her mom held it over her and made her go into the closet that her mom made for her for punishment as punishment for sinning. A five-year-old boy came up on his bike to Carrie and was making fun of her. She stares at him, and as she does so, him and his bike fall over. She was happy when she started to hear him scream. Carrie realizes she made him fall over with her thoughts. She felt as if her brain had flexed when it happened. She tried to make a window shatter, but it just rattles a little bit in the window pane. She walks up to her house feeling love, hate, and dread. Suddenly she remembers the stones and things flying around her house when she was younger. Here we have an excerpt from a magazine interviewing Estelle Horn, who lived next door to Carrie when the stones rained down. She talks about how the whole family was strange. On the day of the stones, Estelle was laying out tanning in a white bikini. After arguments between Mrs. White and Estelle's mom about how Estelle's sunbathing had become scandalous and bad for Carrie. Estelle's mom pushed her pushed her that day to wear the bikini. Her mom was even encouraging her to blast her top 40 music. Estelle had fallen asleep, and when she woke up, Carrie was standing over her. Estelle makes a comment about how at that age Carrie was really pretty, and she was also very curious. She pointed to Estelle's chest and asked what those were. Estelle answered that they were breasts. Carrie said she wished she had some, and when Estelle tries to explain to her that eventually she will, Carrie tells her that she won't because good girls don't get breast. And Estelle says, But I'm a good girl and I have breasts, and so does your mom. And Carrie tells her that her mom wasn't isn't a good girl because she made Carrie. And then and that how her mom calls breasts dirty pillows. Mrs. White comes out screaming and at Carrie, and Estelle begins to yell back. Finally, Mrs. White begins hurting herself and she picks up Carrie and takes her inside. Estelle could hear her hear Mrs. White screaming and praying. Estelle goes inside with her mom to have tea, and while they are drinking their tea and talking, they start to hear banging and saw huge chunks of ice hailing down, but only hitting the White's house. When it stopped, they heard Mrs. White scream and heard banging from the house. A large mahogany thing like a bureau came crashing through the window, and then it started to rain stones on the White House. Back at Carrie's house, her mother was still at work at the blue ribbon laundry as a speed and iron folder. The home was decorated with religious items and a black forest cuckoo clock. Carrie found the religious photos scary as the sh as they showed sinners being punished. Even the four foot crucifix scared her. She went upstairs into the bathroom and found a tampon, and remembered how the girls at school had told her they were for blotting lipstick. She went into her room, which was also covered with more religious items. She was undressing and thinking of how she wanted to be like other girls, and how her mother warned her about feeling the something, which her mom was referring to sex or feelings, sexual feelings, and how it was all a sin. She thought how bad her and the girls, all the girls are, and how only her mom was good because she fought the devil and won. But Carrie hated her mom. Thinking of how much she hates herself and looking in the mirror, it shatters. Here we have a definition of telekinesis, which is the ability to move things with your mind. In Tommy's car, Tommy and Sue have been together for five months, and it was also now a physical relationship. After being physical and getting dressed, she starts to think about Carrie and cries. She tells Tommy about what happened with Carrie, and he tells her about the time that he once hurt someone for no reason, and how he believes that she should go apologize to Carrie. On the way home, he asks her to prom and asks her if she has decided what to do with Carrie. And she says yes to going to prom, but she hasn't decided to do with what to do with Carrie. Here we have an excerpt from the book of telekinesis analysis and aftermath. It states how many people did not want to believe in Carrie's power after the big incident and how people were angry that it was being talked about at all. That night, Carrie and her mom were home, and Carrie was sewing a dark wine dress since her mother wouldn't let her wear the color red because it was evil or sinful. Her mom was embroidering doilies with religious items and sayings on them. The school called her mom earlier that day to tell her what had happened. When she came home from work, she told Carrie she's a woman now, and when Carrie asked why her mom didn't tell her about periods, her mom smacked her and began yelling Bible verses at her. Carrie was crying and asking for help, but her mom kept going and started to kick her. She dragged Carrie to the chapel and made her pray at the altar. Her mom told her to get in the closet, and Carrie had told her no. Her mom tried again, and Carrie said she'd make the stones come down again. This made her mom freeze and then call her the devil. Carrie started to yell and called her a fuck. That's when her mom threw her head first into the closet. In the closet is a picture of sinners being burned before the devil. Carrie tried to stay calm, but after six hours she started screaming to be let out. It took another four hours after that for her mom to let her out. Carrie was remembering that while sewing her dress, that her mom was now afraid of her after that event. Getting ready to go to bed, Carrie uses her mind to clear the thread in the sewing machine just to see that she's correct if her mom is afraid of her. Here we have an excerpt from The Shadow Exploded. Margaret lived with her mom and stepdad, whom Margaret kept saying were living in sin until she met her husband in 1960 and got married in 1962 and told her mother she should live like her and her husband and not have intercourse. Back at school the next day, the girls were in gym class and getting dressed when the gym teacher comes in to yell at them for what they did to Carrie. Chris tries to walk past her, but Mistress Jardin slams her into a locker and tells her what they did to Carrie was a really shitty thing. She tells them all they have a week's detention with her, and if they don't show up for detention, then they get three-day suspension refusal of their prom tickets. An excerpt from The Shadow Exploded, which states that the only telekinesis act from Carrie's childhood is the stones. Later that week, Chris's father, who is a lawyer, shows up at the school. He states that they are there that he is there because Mr. Jarden manhandled Chris and cursed at her. He states Chris will take the three-day suspension, but to avoid a lawsuit, he still wants her to get a prom ticket. And at the end of the year, he wants Mr. Jarden to be fired. The principal tells Chris's father about how Chris is a bully, especially to Carrie, and what had happened in the shower. He tells Chris's dad if he sues them, then they will countersue on behalf of Carrie for all of the bullying and wrongdoing that Chris has done to her. An excerpt from The Shadow Shadow exploded. In seventh grade, Carrie writes a poem that cried out to a teacher about Jesus and being lonely, and she draws crosses all around it. The teacher explains that he's not sure exactly why it cried out to him because it shouldn't have, but it did. Later that day, Sue went to wait for Tommy at the local soda shopslash gas station. She sees Chris is sitting there. So she goes and she grabs her root beer and goes over to Chris. Chris tells her that her dad is going to sue the school and asks why no one at walked out with her. And Sue says it's because they deserve the punishment that they got for what they did to Carrie. And Chris starts to make comments about Carrie and how she deserved what happened. And so Stu Sue gets up to leave, and Chris makes fun of her for thinking she's too good for Chris or better than her. Another excerpt from The Shadow exploded. Part of a letter Chris wrote to Donna about being out of the prom and how her dad had backed out of suing the school, and that she has a surprise for everyone who goes to prom. Later on, Carrie was getting ready for bed after missing a week of school. She had got to go back the next day. She had begun to practice her telekinesis, but it took its toll on her. It elevated her blood pressure and heart rate, and it also slowed her lowered her body temperature. From the book, my name is Sue Snell, an excert. One thing Sue keeps trying to drive home is they are is that they were kids when all of this happened, and that because they were kids, that they acted like kids, and that's why their actions had caused the big event. Later at Tommy's house, Sue asks Tommy to take Carrie to prom instead of her. It takes some work, but she convinces him to do it, and for the first time, Tommy tells Sue he loves her. In Sue's book, she states a lot of people were surprised Tommy agreed to do it. That Thursday, Tommy asks Carrie to prom. At first she thought it was a joke, and that but eventually she agreed to go with him. He tells her it'll be a good time, and she says it's going to be a nightmare. Another excerpt from The Shadow exploded. There are a lot of conspiracy theories about why Tommy took Carrie. Sue says she asked him to make up to do it to make up for the shower incident, but a lot of people don't believe that. And a lot of people believe that Chris and Tommy plotted together, and that's why he took her. That Saturday night, Carrie is in bed trying to convince herself she is not afraid of her mother. She already bought brought I'm so sorry. She already bought fabric to make a dress and knew she had to start on it the next day. She was practicing her powers and was able to lift the bureau now in her room. She was also starting to remember things she did with her mind as a kid, including how her mother had tried to kill her when she was younger. Carrie's mom calls her down for dinner, and Carrie goes down while trying to convince herself to tell her mom. After dinner, Carrie finally tells her mom that Tommy asked her to prom. Her mother tells her no, and Carrie says she's going. Her mother throws her tea in her face and screams. She tries to get Carrie to go into the closet and smacks her. Carrie makes her mom's hand stop when she goes to hit her a second time. She uses her mind to stop her hand and lift objects around the room at the same time. Carrie's mother calls her the devil. Her mother starts whispering exorcism prayers, and Carrie grabs the fabric for her dress. That Monday, the principal was talking to another coworker about his concern over Tommy taking Carrie to Prom, and that he feels like Chris has something to do with it, and something really bad is going to happen at prom. An excerpt from The Shadow exploded. It is believed telekinesis is genetic, carried by the male and only dominant in women, but can also be recessive in females. They believe both of Carrie's parents had it as a recessive gene. That Wednesday, Sue and the rest of the decorating committee were in the gym setting up for prom. Sue was talking to a girl named Helen about her decision to have Tommy take Carrie to prom instead of her, and Helen tells her Chris hates her because of it. Suddenly they notice Chris is in the gym. Chris was talking to a girl named Tina, and Sue and asked Helen if Chris was going to do something at the prom, but Helen said she didn't know. In Sue's book, she says Chris led her boyfriend Billy by the nose and what he did with his friends and Chris was fixed on he did for Chris, and Chris was fixed on destroying Carrie. Back in the gym, Chris convinced Tina to show her the floor plans and seating charts, and she was studying it. Then curious, she looked at the King and Queen ballots and saw Tommy and Carrie were on it. She began to develop a plan and left to call Billy. An excert from Shadow Exploded. It is believed the plan was well calculated by Chris, and it was her idea to have Billy and his friends go to the farm. That night, Billy and his friends went to Henry's farm once they knew the farmer was gone, because he was known to shoot trespassers. When they got close, they cut the headlights and put the car in neutral and pulled into the driveway. Billy and his friends went to the pig pen and killed two of the pigs to fill up two buckets of blood. As Billy thinks Chris was right about the pig's blood being the right choice, a pig blood for a pig. He caps the buckets and puts them in on ice in the trunk of his car, and they leave. This brings us to part two called Prom Night. Carrie is trying on her dress when her mom comes in and tries to get her to take it off and tells her she should burn it. Carrie tells her no, so she starts hurting herself. Carrie's mom starts hurting herself, and Carrie says she's still she's still going and makes the door slam open. Her mom keeps yelling, so Carrie shoves her down the hallway with her mind and slams the door. An excerpt from the shadow exploded. That hit under a high stress. And we know that prom night was going to be a high stress event for causing for her, causing the big incident. Prom night Carrie is trying to convince herself she's not nervous while waiting for Tommy. Her mom was locked in the chapel praying. Carrie began to worry that it was all a joke as Tommy was running late. She began to practice lifting things with her mind and thinks about how the day before she rolled a car with her mind. Carrie can hear her mom praying loudly and yells for her to shut up, and she quiets down. Finally, Tommy shows up and when she opens the door, he tells her that she is beautiful. Sitting at Billy's in a room above the bar called the Cavaliers, waiting for it to be time to leave, Chris was thinking about how even though she could get Billy to do things for her, he had more control. Finally, it was time for the two of them to get ready to leave, and they left. In Sue's book, she says the only thing she's still sorry for is K is still sorry for is Carrie for what she went through and how she is remembered. Tommy and Carrie arrive at prom and walk in with a couple named George and Frida. Frida was being friendly with Carrie as they went in, and Carrie proudly said that she made her dress when Frida asked her where she got it. Chris and Billy got to the prom and he tells Chris he's gonna let her pull the string. The night before, he snuck into the school and placed the buckets of blood on a beam above where King and Queen would be crowned, and ran a string to the vent of the side of the top of the gym. In Sue's book, she states the day before prom, Carrie had gone up to Tommy to tell them that they had to be home by 11 or her mom would be worried. And she can't believe that people call Carrie a monster. Back at prom, Carrie thought the setup for prom was beautiful, and so did Tommy. And so they decided to find their seats. Back at the Whites home, her mom is thinking how Carrie defied her, got her period, and her powers, and how Margaret Margaret's grandmother also had the same powers. Carrie as a baby had made a bottle dangle with her mind, and her mom almost killed her. Here is where I get confused because it says her husband stopped her, but earlier it was stated that Carrie's father died before she was born. She could feel Carrie's powers when she used it on her. She sat in the kitchen sharpening a carving knife for when Carrie returned home from prom. Tommy asked Carrie for the third time if she wanted to dance, and finally Carrie admits she doesn't know how to dance. So they decide to walk around the gym instead. Also, they also decide to watch the King and Queen thrones being set up. Mr. Jarden came up to Carrie to see how her night was going and to Her to forget about what happened in the shower. Carrie says she can't, but she's having a good prom so far. Sue was home wondering how it was going and hoping Tommy wasn't falling in love with Carrie. Billy forces Chris to go over the plan one more time before Chris and him get out of the car. It's time to vote for King and Queen. And Carrie is shocked that they are on the ballot. They agree to vote for themselves. The votes are counted, and there is a tie between Tommy and Carrie and a couple named Frank and Jessica. After hearing this, he can suddenly hear Carrie's name repeated in his head. And they announce everyone will have to revote for the tied couples. Chris is starting to get nervous. It's taking too long. With the new ballot, Carrie tells Tommy to vote for the other couple, but Tommy votes for them instead. Back home, Mrs. White is done sharpening the knife. It's announced at prom that Tommy and Carrie win by one vote. Tommy feels a little dizzy and hears Carrie's name in his head again. Carrie and Tommy are led to the stage. Once they are in place, Chris pulls the string and they hear someone scream. Sue was at home and she had a bad feeling of dread growing all night. She was making herself hot chocolate when the town whistle went off, alerting something was wrong. She went to the window and could see that the high school was on fire near the town oil tanks. As she was looking, there was an explosion. An excert from We Survived the Black Prom by Norma Watson. Norma says it all happened so fast. There was a splash of red, and Tommy and Carrie were covered in blood. Norma said, Oh my god, that's blood. And Tina screamed. They could see the buckets dangling w dangling, and one fell and hit Tommy in the head. The sound made someone laugh, and that's when Carrie opened her eyes, and everyone laughed. Carrie went to leave the stage and fell, making people laugh harder. Mr. Jarden tried to go to help her, and Carrie threw her across the room with her mind. At this point, no one knew Tommy was hurt. As Carrie was running, someone tripped her and she fell again. Then she got up and ran out of the school. It all happened within two minutes after Carrie left. Someone realized that Tommy was hurt and yelled for a doctor. Then they realized Carrie had come back. Then all the doors in the lobby slammed shut. The student starts a stampede to try and get out, and Carrie was standing out in front smiling. The people who survived had run out the backfire doors during the stampede instead of trying to get out the front doors with the rest of the kids. Suddenly the sprinklers turned on. Norma grabbed Tina and led her through the gym to the fire doors. They saw a student named Josie grab a mic and get electrocuted. The student fell over and her shirt was on fire. Norma and Tina ran out. Back at the gym, Tommy from getting hit in the head with the was out cold from getting hit in the head with the bucket. From the New England AP ticker, 1046 p.m. Chamberlain, May, Maine. Fire at the high school. There are electrical cables down, and at least 110 people in the high school neighborhood neighboring firefighters en route. AP ticker, 11:22 p.m. Chamberlain Urgent. A tremendous explosion by the high school. Firefighters working with no avail. All hydrants are vandalized. Three bodies recovered, one firefighter and two prom goers. Three more firefighters on the way to hospital. Sue grabbed her mother's keys even though she didn't have a license. She was determined to get to the high school. The explosion rocked her in the car, and suddenly she was thinking of Carrie. She saw an officer but couldn't hear him. An excerpt from the investigation board of Maine on Carrie White case with Mr. Quaylon. At the time, Mr. Quaylin was in a detention center because he was he had been drinking and almost got into a fight at the cavalier. He was leaving his cell when this whistle went off. He could see the school on fire and saw Carrie next to a hydrant when suddenly the hydrant exploded. They asked if he knew Carrie and he said no. When they asked him how he knew who Carrie was, he said he just knew it. He said he also just knew that she was what she was thinking. He saw Carrie explode another hydrant, and when he walked outside, saw all the pumps at the gas station next door were undone. He also saw a guy with a lit cigarette running to go past it. Now we get things from Carrie's perspective. She states things happened, as Norma said, but when she left she was ready to go home. But then she got mad and decided to make them all pay because she can't stand the thought of life at home with her mom. She goes up to the school, locks the doors, and pictures the sprinkler system to turn it on. She used more power to snap cables, and one hit a puddle of water. When the whistle went off, she lost hold of the door for a second and someone got their fingers out, so she slammed the door shut again and severed their fingers. She left the school and started exploding and started exploding fire hydrants so they couldn't put the fire out. From investigation board investigation board Carrie White case with Sheriff Doyle. The sheriff was was a town over when he gets the call that something happened at the high school. He waited for the officer to report back, but he was killed when the gas station exploded. On his way back to Chamberlain, he got a call from Quayland, the town that the town was on fire and there was no water. He also st stated that the gas station exploded. When he got to the town, most of it was burning down. He also saw Sue flagging him down, asking if Tommy was dead, and saying Carrie did it. They hurt her for the last time. The counsel asked if Sue actually said we've hurt her for the last time or if she'd been drinking. The sheriff said she was hysterical. The sheriff runs into a student who was at the prom and the student tells him Carrie did it because they dumped blood on her and Tommy dumped blood on her and Tommy. Then another gas station explodes. Quaylin comes out of the police station and tells the sheriff what's been happening and warns him to watch out for Carrie White. He asks how Quaylin knows that, and he says, I don't know, it just came to me. AP ticker, 11 42 p.m. Chamberlain is mostly destroyed, and there are three fires going on at once. There were no more ticker alerts after this. A gas line had opened up, and a paramedic driving past threw a lit cigarette out the window, and half the block exploded. Before the explosions of the main gas line, people were coming out onto the street. Carrie went to a church to pray and got no answers and destroyed the church. When leaving the church, she exploded power transformers and went home. From the investigation board, Carrie White case, Miss Cora Simard. She left her house with Georgette Shears to look for their daughters. They saw Carrie come out of the church. They never met her, but just knew it was her. They saw the power lines fall, and Georgette saw people burning. She tried to run and hit a power cord. So Cora walked carefully around the lines, wires. Once clear, she started to run, and the next thing she knew, she was in the police station the next morning. Carrie walked into her home, waking Margaret. She exploded the windows and slammed the kitchen door open, looking for her mom. Carrie Carrie's mom tells her the story of how Carrie's father took her by force, leaving her pregnant with Carrie. She tried to kill her twice in her life and held the knife up when Carrie tells her she's come home to kill her. She's convinced she convinces Carrie to get down and pray and tries to stab her in the back, but Carrie moves and the shoulder goes up to the hill and to her shoulder. Carrie uses her mind to slow her mom's heart until it stops. Carrie feels weak and dizzy and could taste blood. She crawls to her backyard, then realizes she has one more thing she needs to do and crawls down Willow Street and to the embankment on Route 6. Chris and Billy are at the Cavalier asleep when someone arrived at the bar underneath to tell everyone what happened. Someone finally came to tell him and Chris what had happened, and that Carrie had done it. They run to Billy's car and Carrie's name is in his head when the headlights come on and they see Carrie standing in front of the car. Carrie spins the car, then throws it into the cavalier. Chris is thrown into the into the dashboard, and Billy is speared by the steering column. The car starts leaking fuel, and the car and the cavalier went up in flames. Carrie dragged herself across the parking lot someway, and she stops and rolls over to watch the stars as she dies. Sue finds her here at 2 a.m. Earlier, Sue was standing outside a U-wash it and suddenly thinks how Carrie caused everything and went home to kill her mom, and the thought confused her. She drove to Carrie's house and went down their yard and followed the blood trail. From the investigation board of Carrie White case, Sue Snell Sno Sue arrived by Carrie's side around 2 a.m. The board doesn't believe Sue can hear Carrie's thoughts. When Sue arrives by Carrie's side, they talk using their minds, and Carrie tells her she tricked her how Sue tricked her and shows her what happened at the prom and at the shower. Sue tells Carrie to look into her mind and Carrie sees she meant well, and Carrie tells her she should have left her alone. Sue tries to talk to her, but Carrie begins to scream in her mind as she dies. Now we have hit part three called The Wreckage. From AP Ticker, Death Toll, 409, 49 missing. From Daily Sun. The Chamberlain Mills are leaving the town, which is its major industry, because of the dwindling population in Chamberlain. Many people are moving and closing their businesses. They had two mass burials that and they held a graduation for the remaining 52 seniors. And people are still being found. In a letter from the principal to the superintendent, he quits his job. And the principal also gets a letter from Mr. Shardon quitting her job as well. In Sue's book, she states that she wants to move somewhere where no one will know her. The conclusion of the investigation board in the case of Carrie is while the autopsy of Carrie showed some cell changes, which may indicate something we don't believe, something like this can reoccur. And that is the summary of Carrie. This book was very enjoyable. As someone who grew up being bullied, I've always had a soft spot for Carrie. The theme of religious mania was also something that called to me knowing a few people like this in my own life or passing through my life, who are very similar. I give this book on my ghostie rating of scale of one to five for ghosties. I give it this because there are a few continuity errors, like Carrie's father passing before she was born, but later in the book he was alive when she was a baby. And then towards the end of the book, it was back to him being dead again before she was born. Also, when her mother says she tried to kill Carrie twice as a child, she says the first time was when she was born, but earlier it was when she was a few months old, and that how her father had stopped her. The age of the students also tends to change between 17 and 18 quite frequently. Overall, the messages of b how badly bullying can destroy someone struck home for me, as I was often the victim of bullies and mean girls. And it also strikes close home to me because my husband was also bullied as a child severely, and seeing talking to him about his struggles with it as well also is something that affects me. I also found that with this book, touching into issues of bullying, not feeling good about yourself in general, and the underlying message of trying to do something to better yourself to overcome these issues, or yes, Carrie did it in a negative way, as she resulted in violence, but that message is still there. That even if you're going through something, do something to better yourself and give yourself power and use that power in a positive way, which is something that I am learning a lot this year. So Carrie the book of Carrie really hit home a lot for me to this year. But that's all I have for you for Carrie. So please, if you have time, rate and review the podcast. Also follow me on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube under the Haunted Reader Podcast. Any book recommendations can be emailed to a hauntedreader at gmail.com. And remember, from now on, this podcast will be bi weekly on Thursdays. And until then, stay spooky and keep reading. Bye.