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Carrietta N. "Carrie" White is the title character and protagonist of Stephen King's first novel ''Carrie'', published in 1974. In every adaptation and portrayal of ''Carrie'', she is portrayed to be the ultimate high school outcast. She is loathed, taunted and bullied by her classmates and even her teachers. She is mistreated regularly by her mother Margaret White, an abusive, mentally ill and emotionally unstable religious fanatic. At the age of seventeen, she has her first menstrual period in the locker room of her high school, awakening her dormant telekinetic and telepathic abilities. As her powers begin to come full forth, she undergoes a transformation both physically and psychologically. However, after a cruel prank involving pig's blood is pulled on her in front of the entire senior class at her prom, Carrie unleashes her wild talents in a fit of blind rage to ruthlessly massacre her classmates and wreak havoc upon the entire town of Chamberlain in Maine. Her rampage and destruction ultimately causes one of the worst disasters in America--resulting with 440 tragic deaths. ==Novel== Carrie White was born on September 21, 1963. She is blonde-haired with brown eyes, full-figured, has acne, and is considered unattractive, though she is described as having been very pretty as a little girl. Her clothing is old and puritanical, because her mother will not allow her to buy clothes similar to other girls her age, believing them to be too provocative. Carrie is shy, lonely and isolated; the closest thing she has to a friend at school is fellow student Sue Snell, who pities more than likes her. Carrie does, however, show signs of rebelling against her mother's religious fanaticism. Margaret White, her mother, throws her into a "prayer closet" whenever she misbehaves, but by high school Carrie has begun smuggling teen magazines there and reads them in secret. Later in the novel, she undergoes a profound transformation, both physically and psychologically. All her life, Carrie has had incredibly strong telekinetic abilities, usually evident in childhood incidents. As a baby, she had closed a window and had dangled her own bottle above her crib. When she was three years old, she witnessed her teenage next-door neighbor sunbathing and asked about her breasts. Her mother physically abused Carrie for asking about such a matter. While she was inside, Carrie brought forth a hail of ice that smashed the bungalow. The chunks of ice were followed by a shower of rocks that plummeted onto the property, damaging it heavily while a table was almost sent toppling through the window. In 1979, at the age of seventeen, Carrie has her first menstrual period in the shower of the school gym after a physical education class. Due to her mother's bizarre religious beliefs, she does not know what a period is and believes she is bleeding to death. The other girls in the locker room, led by Chris Hargensen and Sue, taunt her and the humiliation brings out her telekinetic abilities. However, their teacher Rita Desjardin gives Chris and her gang a week of detention in the gym for bullying Carrie. Chris skips the detention and then is barred from the prom. Now aware of her unique powers, Carrie begins to practice her telekinetic strength and energy, unaware that using her powers puts a high level of stress on her body. Sue starts to feel guilty about her treatment of Carrie, realizing that she is innocent about a lot of things considering her age, and talks her boyfriend, Tommy Ross, into asking Carrie to the prom. He balks at first, but does it to please Sue. When he asks Carrie to the prom, she eventually says yes, nervous but happy. Carrie's mother attempts to stop her from going, but Carrie insists on trying to fit in and stands up to her for the first time in her life. A talented seamstress, she makes her own dress, and is described as being beautiful as Tommy escorts her to the prom. At the dance, she gradually comes out of her shell, and even makes jokes while she converses with other promgoers. As she is accepted by the crowd, she begins to enjoy herself for once. Carrie and Tommy are even elected the prom's king and queen after Tina Blake and Norma Watson stuff the voting box at Chris's request. As she ascends the stage to take her crown, however, Chris dumps pig's blood all over her as revenge for being banned from the prom. Carrie clumsily runs out of the gym humiliated as everyone begins cruelly laughing at her in mass hysteria, including the teachers. She falls onto the wet lawn outside. As she begins crying, her mind snaps, and she realizes that her secret powers give her the upper hand. She returns to the school to seek revenge and uses her telekinesis to lock the doors, burn down the gym, and leave everyone inside, to die. Next she undoes all the fire hydrants near the campus so when the firetrucks do arrive they won't be able to put out the flames. Walking home covered in blood, Carrie leaves a huge swath of destruction and death through the entire town. She stops to pray at a local cathedral, all the while manipulating a series of power lines outside to fall over, electrocuting several civilians in the streets. Meanwhile, Sue rushes to the school and sees it explode, destroying a portion of the town. Carrie then returns home, intending to kill her mother. When she enters the house, her mother is already waiting for her. After telling Carrie she was born from a marital rape, Margaret stabs her with a butcher knife. Carrie kills her mother by telekinetically stopping her heart. She leaves again, heading for the town roadhouse; Chris and her boyfriend Billy Nolan attempt to run her over with their car before Carrie takes control of it and slams it into the side of the roadhouse. Carrie is left dying from the shock and stress of using her abilities, along with blood loss from the knife wound, on the ground near the destroyed car. Two hours later Sue finds her and invites her into her mind to prove that she was innocent and did not wish Carrie any harm. Carrie believes Sue and forgives her. Carrie cries out for her mother and dies in Sue's arms. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carrie White」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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