Carrie+by+Stephen+King


 * Carrie ****, By Stephen King **
 * WEEK 1**

Person B: The main characters in Carrie by Stephen King include Carrie White, Margaret White, Mr. Morton, Tommy Ross, Sue Snell, and Chris(tine) Hargensen. Carrie White is a social reject in high school who gets made fun of daily. Carrie has been given a reputation that can never be forgotten. Her mother, Margaret White, is somewhat crazy and her strange religious beliefs are affecting Carrie and her life. She gets treated with no respect everyday by peers and teachers that think of her as misunderstood. The character i cannot stand is Margaret White. I cannot stand Carrie's mother because she puts Carrie through things she should not put her through. She has also created a bad reputation for the White family and that is that they are crazy.

Person C: Today was our first book club meeting for Carrie by Stephen King. All of the people in our group were talking about the portion of the book we read. We also were talking about the characters and their personalities. We discussed how Carrie was being treated poorly by her peers, being called names and being the target of numerous objects. Also, Ariel, Person A of the group for this week, brought in Gushers and Ssips Juice boxes for our snack. Our group discussed the things that Carrie's classmates has done to her, such as making horrible poems about her just to bully her. We also talked about the characters, this week's theme, and their personalities and why they hurt Carrie or not.

WEEK 2

Questions for Book Circle –

She has so many problems and she gets angry that she had a child. 2.Would you say Carrie is much different than her mother? Explain. Yes because Carrie wants to be normal and her mother spends all of her time praying for everything she does. 3.Why would you say people do not like Carrie? Why do they laugh? They would like her if they knew but they all think of her as Margaret Whites crazy daughter and they laugh because she is very dumb. 4.Sue feels bad for Carrie, why? Because all the girls make fun of her and when she made fun of Carrie she didn’t need to. She is never that mean so she felt bad. 1.Can you explain what the sin of blood is? The sin of blood is the sin of having your period. Margaret White thinks that if you get your period you have sinned badly.
 * 1) Why does Margaret hurt herself?

Person B language

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The language in Carrie is very dark and descriptive. Stephen King definitely did not right this book for children, its for adults. Is it a easy read? My opinion is that for a advanced reader is it is, and for young adults it can and can’t be depending in your reading level. On my part I say it is a easy read.======

Person C Summary: This week's theme was Language. Everyone in our group was answering questions that were made by Maria, who was Person D, talking about how the mother was hurting herself for having a daughter like Carrie who was 'sinful'. We talked about the language of the book, which is very dark and descriptive. Gabriella, Person A of the group, brought Popcorn and Kool-Aid's for our snack. We talked about how Carrie's Mother, Margaret White, was a crazy woman who abused Carrie a lot for having her period, in which her mother called it the Sin of Blood. We also discussed about how one of the girls who was a part of the group who tormented Carrie, Sue Snell, had started to pity her and think that what she and her friends did was unforgivable and horrible, and wanted to apologize by asking her boyfriend, Tommy, to ask Carrie to the Prom.


 * Week 3**

Person D: 1.Why did Sue Snell suddenly join the Committee for the Ball? Sue joins the Committee for the Ball because she was not going to the Ball and did not have anything else to do and thought it would be nice and fun.

2.Why did Chris Hargensen go into the gym where the Ball was to be held with her friend Tina to be a guard out for teachers? She wanted to put in a lot of votes for Carrie and Tommy so she and Billy could go on with their plan to ruin Carrie's life.

3.Why did Carrie’s Mom start to hurt herself? Carrie's Mom always hurts herself whenever Carrie does not follow her rules and does something wrong, so when she hurts herself, Carrie will feel bad for her and not do anything bad, but Carrie did not fall for it this time when her mom wanted her to not go to the Ball.

4.Why was Tommy Ross so nice to Carrie at the dance and tell her to vote for them? Tommy started to like Carrie when he saw her at her house when he was picking her up for the Ball.

5.Why did Chris suddenly become mean towards Billy when they waited for the results of the King and Queen? Chris was being anxious about the voting results and Billy kept talking about the pig blood and the plan they were going to do.


 * WEEK 4:**

C. During this discussion we spoke about how Tommy Ross asked Carrie to the dance. We discussed why he did and that was because Sue felt horrible about making fun of Carrie and she wanted to make up for it. When Carrie was getting ready her mother kept telling her not to go to the dance because things will go wrong and everyone will laugh at her. Carrie didn't listen to her and called her crazy and told her to shut up. We asked each other if Carrie should have listened to her mother and we came to the conclusion that she would not have known that anything was going to happen and it was the first time she would be considered normal. So no, she should not have listened to her mother. Towards the end, Carrie uses her telekinetic powers to destroy everything in her path because she had pigs blood dumped on her at the dance while standing on stage. This is what we spoke about during this discussion.


 * WEEK 5:**

B. I would not recommend this book to peers because there is a lot of blood and gore on the end of the book. This topic has not been discussed more effectively in other books. This book should not be considered for the school's curriculum.