Poor Carrie, I truly feel your pain.

This book was captivating as it presented facts about a scientific phenomenon known as Psychokinesis. I have had personal experiences with this, and I'll share them with you at the end of this review, as long as you all promise not to call me a freak. But think whatever you want.

Carrie's high school years were far from easy. Raised by an overprotective, abusive, and ultra-religious mother with no father figure, she lacked the means to fit in with any crowd. In high school, if you're different, you don't belong.

However, there was something else about Carrie that made her stand out even more. During puberty, specifically at the onset of her very late first period (the famous shower scene, fellas don't be too grossed out), strange things started to happen. When she was stressed, objects would move around and chaos would ensue. At first, she didn't realize she was the cause. In the shower scene, she was completely confused and thought she was dying since her mother had neglected to educate her. The other girls, of course, taunted her.

One of the offenders, Susan Snell, later regretted her actions and tried to make amends by asking her boyfriend to take Carrie to the prom in her place. But perhaps she shouldn't have done that either.

Now, this phenomenon of objects moving due to stress has been reported and documented numerous times. It's often mistaken for a poltergeist, but it's most likely an electrochemical reaction that occurs around hormonal female adolescents.

Let me tell you about what happened in my household when I was a tween. My mom used to smoke, and I hated it. I would constantly bug her to stop. One evening, when we were alone in the house, my mom couldn't find her cigarettes. She was tearing her upstairs bedroom apart, yelling at me to tell her what I did with them. I yelled back from downstairs that I didn't do anything. She didn't believe me and kept ranting. When she reached a breaking point, she turned around and there, in the middle of the floor, was the pack of cigarettes sitting neatly on its end. She immediately blamed me, but I insisted I couldn't have done it since I was downstairs the whole time.

To this day, she still thinks I did it. Maybe I did, in an unconventional way.

The second incident that really sticks in my mind happened after I finished doing the dishes and cleaning up after supper. I went into the other room with my mom, and we were arguing about something. Suddenly, it sounded like all the dishes and glasses in the kitchen had crashed to the floor. I thought I must have put something in the cupboard wrong and it had fallen, taking everything else with it. But when we ran into the kitchen, not a dish was out of place. However, in the middle of the floor was the glass top to the salad dressing carafe balanced on its small end. What the hell? And we didn't even have salad that night.

So, there you have it. Science can be strange.

Oh, and now I have this urge to take up sewing. Weird, right?

It was an absolutely fantastic read! I vividly remember reading it for the first time. At that moment, unfortunately, I wasn't a huge fan. However, when I picked it up for the second time, something magical happened. I truly fell in love with it. I discovered that the storytelling was utterly fascinating. It had this unique charm that made it feel as if I was delving into real events. The story itself was far from being boring. On the contrary, it had a captivating hold on my attention from the very beginning. And because of this, it was incredibly easy to read. I could just lose myself in the pages without any effort. In addition to that, the characters were extremely interesting. They were so well-developed that I actually felt like I knew them on a personal level. It was as if they had stepped out of the book and into my life.

Carrie is a remarkable novel by Stephen King. It was his first published work and the one that made him famous. The story follows Carrie, an unattractive and unlucky girl. She endures a sickening control from her completely crazy mother and constant bullying from her classmates at school. This horrible life leads her to discover her mental powers (telekinesis), which she explores until an explosive finale.

The novel begins with a terrible scene in the school shower where Carrie experiences her first menstruation. She thinks she is bleeding to death and her classmates throw bloody tampons at her until a teacher comes to her aid. Above, a light bulb burns out. Carrie's struggle to be accepted is the most significant aspect of this novel. With a theme that is now more relevant than ever, it shows that this kind of school bullying is nothing new. We have all experienced it in some way.

Carrie's relationship with her mother is extremely dysfunctional. Her mother tries to control every aspect of her life from a religious point of view, even seeing Carrie's menstruation as something sinful, which is quite extreme. In my opinion, this type of relationship is explored further by King in Misery.

Carrie is part of North American popular culture. Practically everyone knows the story, in part because of its numerous film and television adaptations. In fact, a new one was recently made. King said about Carrie: "She was a very particular girl from a very particular family. Her mother was not a religious fanatic like Carrie's mother, but a fanatic of the game... The girl had only one change of clothes for the entire school year, and all the other children made fun of her."

After all, I conclude that the real villain in this story is a rather hypocritical society that pretends to teach values of inclusion but actually pushes you to the limit when you are different from the rest. Carrie was pushed to do what she did, and although I cannot justify her, I can perfectly understand what a human being is capable of doing once the limits of your own sanity are crossed. Carrie should be read by everyone. Those who have never read King can perfectly start with this story, which, despite being quite raw, we know is nothing out of the ordinary in the author's universe.

¿Quien es realmente el malo en esta historia?