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The Power Of Carrie By Stephen King
For Stephen King, Carrie was a wasted of time, he also tossed the first pages in the garbage can. An horror fiction history about about a girl with a crazy religious mother and a lot people who annoy her, then she discover that has telekinetic power. Even so, his wife thought that it was a good idea and conviced him to continued and sent it to cavallier magazine.As result, he recived a telegram telling him that Carrie is a Doubleday’s book and it became the first Stephen King’s published book.

First of all, let's make this more clear. Everybody knows that girl sitting in the back of the room that seems to be scared of something or doesn’t like talk to anybody (weirdo) ,as an example Carietta "Carrie" White. Carrie is a 16 years old high
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A lot of people dreams with having powers as superman and this book show us a point of view about it. Maybe most of the people could use their powers for good things but Carrie used them for bad because she was tired of how everybody treated her. This also show us how some people feels when it are rejected by the society. However, this story is really short, it needs more background , maybe Carrie’s mother could explained her where her powers came from ,there is not much story about Carrie’s father, the unnecessary Sue’s pregnancy which could be used for a second part by her last psychical conversation with Carrie, and I can’t understand how can someone die with a bucket. It’s a good story but it is not compared to other of his book, the author could added and removed some details.

I recommend this book for everybody because it show you how a person use his power but more for a young audience because it could show us how some teenagers feel when they don’t have people to talk with, when they are alone and sad, and it’s worse when they are passing by a bullying situation ,making you think about it. Maybe is not a girl who has telekinetic powers but currently there is many problems of violence in schools because of that. There is a big problem of bullying but together we can leave it

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