Stephen King's novel "Carrie" tells about a telekinetic girl who has been bullied by everyone all her life and finally gets her revenge. At the beginning of the story, the main character Carrie White is seventeen years old. The reader gets to know that she has grown up in a very special environment: Her fanatically religious mother Margaret White has kept her pretty isolated in a world of sinlessnes and punishment. Carrie has telekinetic power …showed first 75 words of 1607 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1607 total…makes up her mind and stands up for her own life. She refuses to pray for forgiveness and finally leaves all her former life behind. When Carrie dies she is told that the buckets with pig blood were not a conspiracy, but the deed of one girl and some friends of hers. She regrets what she has done to the town's inhabitants and forgives especially Sue what has been done to her all her life.