We begin the next 15 pages with Carrie thinking about how she could be free. We also find out that her mother had taught her that any sexual feeling is bad and sinful and so she hates the feeling itself. I've yet to know if that is a blessing or a curse. Even though Carrie knows why she started her period and the inevitability of it she still feels bad. It's almost like she is at war with herself, like she's struggling against logic and what her mother practically brainwashed her with. Her mother brainwashed her into thinking that her mother, and only her mother, was good. (except for God and all of that but that's already given.). She even thinks that people are evil, and she is even a little justified in thinking they are from how the human kind has treated her so far. She even dreamed her mother fought and cast out Satan all by herself and ripped all of the bad out of her leaving her completely pure but Carrie in a way hates her also. Carrie seems to be filled with alot of hate, even self-hate. It surprised me that she even described her face as "bovine like" but I suppose you can only endure so much before you begin to crack. We go to a brief article about what Telekinesis is and then to my favorite part of this story to my two favorite characters.... hahahaha just kidding. We go to Tommy and Sue Snell, Mr. and Mrs. perfect of Carrie's high school. The two seem to be in a purely sex based relationship. Although Sue isn't the main antagonist (Chris Hargensen is) she proves to be severely hypocritical and mixed with her seemingly not so smart boy toy this is a recipe for disaster. She is always scared about keeping her place in her school as being popular but she cries over what she did to Carrie. She's also confused about her relationship with Tommy which also turns out to be for the status also. She ends up blaming it on Carrie like a coward as a way to accept what she did. After Tommy saying she needs to apologize and other ramblings between the two of them they revert back to what stupid people usually revert back to, sex. A few articles later we find out that some of the scientists that were on the "White case" wanted to deny that Carrie's powers ever existed because they went against physics itself. I wonder what this says about human nature. Maybe that sometimes we deny something just because it doesn't make sence even if we have the evidence that it existed. We're back at the White house were we get some imagery about what Margaret looks like. She is ironically sitting in front of the 4 foot bloody depiction of Christ which feels a little like foreshadowing. She wears bi-focals and has blue eyes like Carrie. She always wears a hat and carries around her deceased husband's Bible, he is known as "Daddy Ralph" to Carrie. Carrie becomes angry at her mother because of her not telling her about what was happening to her, and Margaret slaps her hard in response and starts to compulsively quote the bible. What really shocks me the most is that Margaret even views women as weak. She eventually kicks Carrie all the way to the church like room in her house that even has an alter. Again Margaret starts referring to the puritan sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". Carrie still tries to fight her although her mother is violently making her pray by means of physical abuse. We find out that whenever Carrie does wrong in Margaret's eyes she is thrown in her closet for extreme periods of time to pray. Bravely she lashes back at her mother and is surprised to find that she is scared of Carrie a little. Probably because she knows better than anyone else what she is capable of. Eventually after much cussing from Carrie (which is kind of comidical). After being locked in her closet for 6 hours she finally broke and begged her mother to let her out and an hour later Margaret came to let her out. The longest time she ever stayed in there was for more than a day. I wonder why she didn't just break down the door with her mind? Maybe her telepathy wasn't strong enough then. In the next article we get a little bit of mom's background. She came from semi-rich parents who owned a roadhouse (one of the things that she defiantly can not stand.). Her father was shot in a barroom accident and her mother went on to re-marry, which Margaret didn't approve of at all because she then began attending fundamentalist christian meetings which is how she met Ralph. She goes on to move away with Ralph whilst boasting to her mother and her husband the life that her and Ralph had which was, as she says, like Mary and Joseph but ironically she ends up (according to her mother) getting pregnant out of wedlock and miscarries the baby which really sends her over the edge. A year later Carrie was conceived. And so we cut back to Desjarin coming into her gym class to punish them for what they did to Carrie and that ends these 15 pages. :]
"Angry God ." Online Image. ONETHING Challenge. July 11, 2011. Aug.9,2011 <http://onethingchallenge.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-08-02T09%3A50%3A00-05%3A00>.
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