"Carrie"

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I hope you had a wonderful night. My plan was to upload this review last night, but I didn´t have time. To celebrate a belated Halloween here you have a review of one of my favourite horror novels ever: Carrie, by the king of the genre Stephen King. I hope you enjoy it and if you haven´t read the novel, give it a chance, you won´t regret it. 

SYNOPSIS:

“Carrie knew she should not use the terrifying power she possessed... But one night at her senior prom, Carrie was scorned and humiliated just one time too many, and in a fit of uncontrollable fury she turned her clandestine game into a weapon of horror and destruction...”

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REVIEW:

Everybody hates Carrie White. Carrie is different from the rest of the girls at high school. She is shy. An outcast. The perfect victim and scapegoat. What the rest of the students in Chamberlain don´t know is that Carrie is in fact not ordinary. Indeed she has a power that is able to destroy everything and everyone that bothers her.

This novel is one my favourite Stephen King´s works ever. The author introduces the coming of age of Carrie White, who is battered everyday by her classmates and by her own mother, an extremely religious woman that blames her daughter for basically everything.

In his novel King represents perfectly the lowest instincts of humans and how cruelty and fear can be extremely powerful weapons. To complete his work, King uses newspaper clippings, articles and even letters to describe how the story progresses, and this also give the readers the clue to anticipate what it is about to happen.

From my point of view, the best thing about this novel is the fact that Mr. King go in depth into the villain´s mind, Carrie, who is also the main character. But, is Carrie a victim or a villain? After all, she is a victim at school and at her own house due to the harassment she receives every day.

To conclude, I would like to point out that this novel is, in fact, a masterpiece. King has, indeed, represent the consequences of something as horrible as cruelty or bullying in Carrie, and as a result, she is deshumanized. The characteristic essence of the author is very present in Carrie. In any case, only Stephen King could create the creepy and thrilling atmosphere that turned the novel into not only a literary classic, but also a cinematographic one.