Why did Stephen King write 'Carrie' when he obvisly had little to know clue on the dayly life of a teenage girl or her emotions? Why did he make child abuse part of fictional horror, when their are real girls who go through that?
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Why do ppl write book on methods to commit suicide?, because they can. Freedom of press/speech is either a blessing or curse, depending on your POV
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Stephen King is a fictional writer who writes horror novels about whatever he gets an idea about, and he has the freedom to choose ANY subject he likes because of freedom of speech.....He also gains insight on subjects by doing indepth reasearch on them, thats why you usually see thank-you's for the people who helped him on a particular subject.
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First of all, he's a guy. He probably didn't do research into it or he just didn't want to focus on the daily life or emotions of a teenage girl, because Carrie isn't just a normal teen, she's different from the other girls. Second, though child abuse is horrible and it happens to many children, I think that Stephen King is trying to show what it's like for someone who is abused. We humans, for some reason, want to know more and more information. Some of us will actually read books and watch movies about these horrible situations that happen in real life, just to know how horrible a human being can be. I mean have you read "A Child Called It"? It's a real life story (1st of 3 books) about an abused boy and it is written by the actual boy, who is now a man. So not only can authors talk about researched topics like child abuse, but some authors want to tell you their horrible stories just so you know that it happens and you shouldn't try to pretend that it doesn't happen. Oh and it's freedom of press/speech.
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In fiction, you need your audience to empathize with your character and understand what motivates them. By portraying Carrie as an abused child, he has a reason for her to be weird, a motive for her to react badly to taunting and a reason for her commit an act completely out of proportion with her humiliation. Because we understand her motivation, we care. We don't simply dismiss her as an alien monster. That's what makes it a good story.
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It is all fiction and about making money. The movie was really scary and it made a lot of money and made him famous. Writers are allowed go back and forth between fiction and real life.
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I wish the questioners would do some research. Carrie is spot on....child abuse IS horror; what should he write about....a plain teen who fall is in love with a bloodsucking killer? Shut up. Also, Carrie is based in part on a real character that King went to school with, who ended up killing herself later on in life. Read a book, find out something, anything...but please, don't talk out of your corn hole. here's +5 for your troubles. King hit it on the head. You obviously know even less about teen girls. Dont' mess with Stephen King. Pulp fiction or not, he still is a gifted horror writer.
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I've wondered HOW he possibly got into her mind and world and made it come alive so well. I'm not a fan of his, haven't read anything by him in years, but (at least in his earlier books which I *did* read) he had an amazing talent for doing that - as with the kid in The Shining. But was it a wrong thing to do, to portray an upbringing by a psycho mother, just because there are real cases like that? That seems like a stretch to me... you'd might as well avoid writing about anything unpleasant, fiction or otherwise, to avoid reminding anybody of anything unpleasant.
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Stephen King was a high school English teacher when he wrote that book. I imagine he heard the daily life and emotions of a teenage girl ad nauseum. I suspect that the daily life and emotions of a teenage girl have changed a bit since 1974 or thereabouts, when he wrote the book. One thing hasn't changed, they are still pretty self-absorbed and expect everyone else to "get" them, rather than seeking to understand others, coming from a former teenage girl myself. Making child abuse part of the horror was probably an attempt to inject some realism into an otherwise unbelievable story. If it offends you, you can always toss it in a corner and not finish it.
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