Looking Up

Ashlee Hammac decided to add a sandbox to the grave site of her baby boy so that her older son, Tucker, would be more comfortable visiting the resting place.

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Like in the book Carrie is mocked not only for her lack of social skills/sheltered upbringing, but also for being overweight and unattractive. It says so very deliberately in the book

So what happens when you cast a beautiful thin actress like sissy spacek or chloe grace moretz? In my opinion you lose part of what makes Carrie so compelling as a novel. The pink dress is the first time Carrie genuinely feels pretty. The pigs blood is so much more devastating because it’s not just a prank, it’s chris and the other students (besides tommy rip) ripping away the first and only moment Carrie ever had to feel beautiful and well-liked, and it was taken away from her

I can’t help but feel like some people who only see one of the films and don’t read the book might be missing some key ideas in the book. They might not understand that the horror in Carrie is a young woman who is constantly reminded, by her mother and her peers and even the staff of the school (except for ms desjardins), that she is wrong, her body is wrong, she simply does not fit into anybody’s idea of what a woman should look like or how a woman should act

It’s not that conventionally attractive girls are always exempted from bullying, but there’s a certain oppression that comes from being labeled as unattractive, especially if you’re a teenager without a developed sense of self. A constant awareness that you do not deserve love and will never receive it. That anyone expressing romantic interest in you is probably just playing a joke. That you will never be adored, never be seen as worthy of protection, never get to exsist without constant reminders of your supposed lack of humanity