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Rocks falling from the sky

posted 18 years ago by wolfspirit-5
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I read the book a few years ago and I can't remember the rocks falling from tha sky in the beginning. Does anyone here remember what happened and why did this happen? If it did happen in the book.
Also, what importance does this have for Carrie and her habilities? if any.

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[–] kimcook319 17 years ago

I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that after Carrie was through talking to the woman that her Mom thought was "sinly" she dragged Carrie in the house and spanked her. The rocks and stuff were caused by Carrie getting angry or scarred. Which probably means she always had her powers she just didn't know it.

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[–] knight-in-black-leather 15 years ago

Also the TK gene is inheritated, and Margaret's mother had it as well but Margaret didn't. Her belief as to why it was Satan's powers are unknown

I may be wrong, but I thought King stated the mythical 'TK gene' was passed down through the male? Isn't that why carrie's 'half-sister Rachel from the "The Rage: Carrie 2" had the same powers? They both had the same father.

As for why she believed it was satan, well...the girl had supernatural powers.
If anyone had such powers, I believe they WOULD be from satan.

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[–] robotrix 15 years ago

I may be wrong, but I thought King stated the mythical 'TK gene' was passed down through the male? Isn't that why Carrie's 'half-sister Rachel from the "The Rage: Carrie 2" had the same powers? They both had the same father.

That thing about it being passed through the father was just for the sake of making a sequel. In fact, that sequel (and the DePalma movie) claimed that Carrie's dad abandoned them when in the book he died in an accident at work.

Part of the bit in the book where Margaret remembers how Carrie had levitated her baby bottle she also remembers how her Granny had the power and "the sign of the Evil Eye all around her" and that it made her go senile much younger than normal. So King meant it to be on Margaret's side of the family.

As far as the incident with the rocks hitting the house - it wasn't just rocks in the book. There were also huge chunks of ice that fell from the sky (which makes you wonder where they came from being it was summer). Also people heard things crashing in the house and the dining room table crashed through a window....which the witnesses said that Margaret couldn't have thrown it herself.

So it was kind of inferred that Margaret had tried to kill Carrie then but Carrie had defended herself and kept Margaret at bay for awhile.

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[–] knight-in-black-leather 15 years ago

That thing about it being passed through the father was just for the sake of making a sequel. In fact, that sequel (and the DePalma movie) claimed that Carrie's dad abandoned them when in the book he died in an accident at work.

Part of the bit in the book where Margaret remembers how Carrie had levitated her baby bottle she also remembers how her Granny had the power and "the sign of the Evil Eye all around her" and that it made her go senile much younger than normal. So King meant it to be on Margaret's side of the family.

Well, leave it to king to have it come from BOTH sides.

In the book, he states:

With the TK phenomenon, the male appears to be the carrier.. the TK gene may be recessive in the female, but dominates only in the
female. It appears that Ralph White carried the gene. Margaret Brigham, by purest name, also carried the outlaw gene sign, but we
may be fairly confident that it was recessive, as no information has ever been found to indicate that she had telekinetic powers
resembling her daughter's. Investigations are now being conducted into the life of Margaret Brigham's grandmother, Sadie Cochran -
for, if the dominant/recessive pattern obtains with TK as it does with haemophilia, Mrs Cochran must have been TK-dominant.

If the issue of the White marriage had been male, the result would have been another carrier. Chances that the mutation would have
died with him would have been excellent, as neither side of the Ralph White - Margaret Brigham alliance had cousins of a comparable
age for the theoretical male offspring to marry. And the chances of meeting and marrying another woman with TK gene at random
would be small. None of the teams working on the problem have yet isolated the gene.

So, that explains why Rachel had the same powers.

As far as the incident with the rocks hitting the house - it wasn't just rocks in the book. There were also huge chunks of ice that fell from the sky (which makes you wonder where they came from being it was summer). Also people heard things crashing in the house and the dining room table crashed through a window....which the witnesses said that Margaret couldn't have thrown it herself.

So it was kind of inferred that Margaret had tried to kill Carrie then but Carrie had defended herself and kept Margaret at bay for awhile.

Which in itself is a bit ridiculous...I mean, the kid had to sleep sometime.

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[–] robotrix 15 years ago

Which in itself is a bit ridiculous...I mean, the kid had to sleep sometime.

Well, Margaret did have some humanity in her somewhere. She couldn't even do it when Carrie was born as she planned.

Maternal instinct got in the way.

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[–] knight-in-black-leather 15 years ago

Well, Margaret did have some humanity in her somewhere. She couldn't even do it when Carrie was born as she planned.

Maternal instinct got in the way.

And then somewhere along the line, she lost it.

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[–] robotrix 15 years ago

And then somewhere along the line, she lost it.

Oh, I think we saw in the book when that happened. As long as Carrie stayed a "little girl" (no period, no interest in boys) she was safe from Margaret.

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[–] knight-in-black-leather 15 years ago

Oh, I think we saw in the book when that happened. As long as Carrie stayed a "little girl" (no period, no interest in boys) she was safe from Margaret.

True, that did seem to be the straw that broke the camel's back. Also, I think Margaret thought she was safe because carrie was like 17 and still hadn't had her first period. It was a devastating blow to her when she found out. (to both of them actually)

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[–] deem714 15 years ago

Yes: but the book said that there were hailstones, too.

I remember the book saying Mrs White paid a quarter or a buck to a boy to help her clean them up. and some EPA or Geologist comes by and shaves a hunk off for testing: ordinary granite or somehting.

The book also said that the stones fell on their property only.

You're laborers, you're supposed to be laboring! That's what you get for not having an education!!

[–] dntbreathe 11 years ago

It's the rain of stones scene.