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To some, Carrie may seem like she was innocent to her own sexuality. That may be true, but it was her mother who was to blame. The way that she had been brought up to think nearly everything was a sin. She really didn't know anything about life. When Carrie had her first period, she thought that she was dying. "When Carrie White realized she was bleeding from the vaginal opening, she had no idea of what was taking place. She was innocent of the entire concept of menstruation." (King 10) ""I"m bleeding to death!" Carrie screamed- (King 11). Carrie's mother hadn't taught her anything about the menstruation cycle, and had even told her that good girls don't get breasts, or "dirtypillows" as she had known them to be called.
""What are those?"-Those are my breasts, Carrie." "I wish I had some."-You have to wait, Carrie. You won't start to get them for another oh, eight or nine years."-No I won't," she said. "Mamma says good girls don't."" ." mamma had been bad when she made her and that was why she had them. She called them dirtypillows, as if it was all one word." (King 30).
Of course someone brought up without knowing about these things would be innocent about their own sexuality. "It is, after all, Carrie White's failure to understand her own sexuality that puts into motion the events which will eventually destroy both Carrie as well as the town that has tormented her." (Magistrale 45). Just because a person is innocent, doesn't mean that they will become a killer.
The reason that Carrie did go on a killing spree wasn't because she was evil, or because of her sexual innocence. She did it because she had been the object of every prank throughout her life, and she finally had enough. "Carrie is the story of a girl who has been the odd one all her life, the misfit, the born loser."."Carrie becomes the butt of every cruel joke, the object of any malicious prank." (Beahn 65). We first see this in the opening scene of the book, all the girls are in the showers after gym class and Carrie is the last to leave the showers.