We pick up with a very interesting question; are women less cruel by nature than men? It says that the girls would always harass Carrie way more than the guys. Does that women can be extremely cruel also? In history we have seen single women with immaculant bloodthirsts but what of the female race as a whole? I hope someday I know this answer but until then; Tommy ends up agreeing to take Carrie to the prom and tells Sue that he loves her for the first time but I still highly doubt he even knows what he's talking about. Tommy is surprisingly nervous about asking Carrie to prom, which is strange but she still ends up saying yes after he reassures her that it is not a joke or something to further humiliate her. Carrie is still a little doubtful and acts pessimistic towards it even though she still hopes everything will go good for her. What really confuses me is that Tommy touches her hand after he asks her and she says yes. Did he think it would have given Carrie the slightest idea that he liked her when he didn't? Would it upset Sue if she knew? We go back to Carrie's house were she tells her mother about Tommy, and in reaction she throws her warm tea in Carrie's face. This time, though, Carrie ends up throwing a pan at her with her mind. Her mother thinks she's some kind of demon, which probably hurt Carrie's feelings. In another exert from "The Shadow Exploded" we find out that Tommy also dies in the prom night incident. There was only twelve survivors and those were ironically the unpopular people. It also revealed that Tommy was a great student but I doubt he really was intelligent given what I've read. Carrie ends up making a dress (ironically in the color red which is the devil's color according to puritans and her mom) and builds up her TK powers by lifting things in her bedroom with her mind. She has flashbacks of her mother beating her and calling her a "little slut" and the day when she made it rain stones. We even see some unintended irony when Sue talks about how they made a movie about Carrie when in real life they ended up making 2 and a musical. It could have even been King's clever suggestion that the movie industry make a movie out of his book haha. In another exerpt from "The Shadow" we find out that Carrie could have got her powers from her father and her Grandmother, who could have been a TK. We end these pages with Sue and the prom committee decorating, the theme is Springtime in Venice.
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