Estelle recounts a time when she was sunbathing in a white bikini.
Let's read an interview with Estelle Horan, shall we?.
She tries to shatter a window, but fails.
With a strong glare, Carrie manages to knock his bike over… then she wonders what else she can do.
Carrie is almost home when a five-year-old rides by and calls Carrie "fart-face" (1.151).
She tells him that Chris Hargensen started the bullying, and that she still feels bad about slapping Carrie.
After Carrie leaves, Miss Desjardin explains the situation a little more to Mr.
When Carrie yells, the ashtray on the desk tips over.
(Note: Her name isn't Stacey or Jane either.) Morton, the assistant principal, keeps calling Carrie "Cassie," until she yells that's not her name. That's what you do when you get your first period, we guess?
In the assistant principal's office, Miss Desjardin suggests that Carrie be allowed to go home early.
When Carrie's mom gave birth, she swore that she didn't know she was pregnant she believed she had "a cancer of the womanly parts" (1.75).
Her parents possess "near-fanatical fundamentalist religious beliefs" (1.71).
Another excerpt from The Shadow Exploded gives us some background on Carrie and her family.
She tries to help her when a lightbulb overhead explodes.
Eventually, Miss Desjardin also realizes that this is Carrie's first period.
Miss Desjardin slaps her to calm her down.
Carrie screams that she's bleeding to death.
Right before the gym teacher returns, Sue Snell (one of the girls bullying Carrie) realizes that this might be the first time Carrie's ever gotten her period.
Then they throw tampons and pads at Carrie. She gets all the girls to chant, "Plug it up!" (1.25).
A girl named Chris Hargensen starts yelling at Carrie.
The story is interrupted with an excerpt from a book called The Shadow Exploded, explaining telekinesis to us: "the ability to move objects by effort of the will alone" (1.20).
Suddenly, all the girls see "the blood running down leg" (1.18).
Her gym teacher, Miss Desjardin, tells her to hurry up.
Carrie is showering after gym class at Ewen High, and she's kind of spacing out.
Hey, in her defense, that can't be any worse than yet another Sloppy Joe day in the school cafeteria, can it? In grammar school, someone scratched on a desk, "Carrie White eats s***" (1.6).
Item 3: The kids at school haven't ever been nice to Carrie.
Item 2: Stephen King bluntly tells us, "Carrie White was telekinetic" (1.5).
They hit the house where Carietta White, then three years old, lived with her mother.
Item 1: "A rain of stones fell from a clear blue sky on Carlin Street in the town of Chamberlain" (1.2).
Before we get to the action, we get a few items of foreshadowing.
Even though this part is called Blood Sport, don't hold your breath for a Jean-Claude van Damme cameo.