How It All Goes Down
Wreckage
- This part is a series of letters and book excerpts. Here's what we can piece together from 'em.
- The coroner's report lists Carrie's cause of death as "hemorrhage, shock, coronary occlusion, and/or coronary thrombosis" (3.1). Specific, we know.
- Lots of people are trying to figure out what happened in Chamberlain that caused 440 people to die. It's a pretty big mystery in the town, given that Carrie killed almost all of the witnesses to her mass-homicide.
- We read resignation letters from both the Principal and Miss Desjardin. They feel guilty for not being able to stop what happened.
- People are also freaked out that another telekinetic child could be born, and this could all happen again. "The possibility of a recurrence, genetically speaking, is 99 per cent" (3.18).
- Finally, we read a letter from a woman in Tennessee. We've never heard of her before. Her name is Amelia, and she is writing to her sister about her daughter, Annie.
- Annie's really cute, but there's something kind of off about her: she can float marbles. And her grandmother used to do the same thing sometimes. (Telekinesis often skips a generation, we learn.)
- Oh well, that's not a big deal. Right? That must be pretty run-of-the-mill in Tennessee, because Amelia doesn't seem concerned.
- She writes, "Annie is awfull pretty & her eyes are as brite as buttons. I bet she'll be a world-beeter someday [sic]" (3.26).
- Is that a set-up for Carrie 2?
- Hm.