Carrie
Carrie was the odd one at school; The one whose reflexes were always
off in games, whose clothes never really fit, who never got the point of the
joke. And so she became the joke, the brunt of teenaged cruelties that puzzled
her as much as they wounded her.
There was hardly any comfort in playing her private game, because like so many
things in Carrie's life, it was sinful. Or so her mother said. Carrie could make
things move--by concentrating on them, by willing them to move. Small things,
like marbles, would start dancing. Or a candle would fall. A door would lock.
This was her game - her power - her sin, firmly repressed like everything else
about Carrie.
One act of kindness, an spontaneous as the vicious jokes of her classmates,
offered Carrie a new look at herself that night of the senior prom. But
another - of furious cruelty - forever changed things and turned her clandestine
game into a weapon of horror and destruction.
She made a lighted candle fall, and she locked the doors....
Carrie
Stephen King
1974 |
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