Carrie 4

New Characters:

Sheriff Otis Doyle
Deputy Plessy
Tom Quillan

Summary:

This section of the book covers the prom and the events immediately following the crowing of the king and queen. Carrie and Tommy are crowned king and queen, the bands play the school song, queuing Chris and Billy. Chris pulls the jute twine dropping the buckets of pig blood. Both buckets hit their mark. Carrie and Tommy are both covered with blood, and the bucket which lands on Tommy’s head kills him. The prom attendees burst into laughter. Carrie runs out of the gym, is tripped on the way and is gone for a moment or two. She then returns and begins to use here telekinetic abilities to enact revenge upon her classmates. She forces the doors closed and turns on the gym’s sprinkler system. The water from the sprinklers reaches the electrical systems of the bands, causing a fire which engulfs the gym and eventually ignites the oil-fuel tanks, which explode. As the fire rages, Carrie is seen by several witnesses sabotaging the town’s fire hydrants and Teddy’s Amoco - the town’s gas station. King chooses to cover the disaster through the personal accounts of several witnesses including: Tom Quillan, Sue Snell, Sherriff Otis Doyle and Carrie herself.

New Social Issues:

Revenge.