Carrietta N. "Carrie" White is the title character and the protagonist of Stephen King's novel Carrie. In every adaptation and portrayal of Carrie, she is portrayed as high school outcast, loathed, taunted and bullied by her classmates and her mother, Margaret White, an abusive, mentally ill and unstable religious fanatic. At the age of sixteen, she has her first menstrual period in the showers at school. Since Carrie had no knowledge of menstruation, she believed she was bleeding to death internally. Instead of showing sympathy for the frightened girl, Carrie's classmates mocked her and threw sanitary pads and tampons at her while chanting: "Plug it up!" Her period also awakened her hidden telekinetic and telepathic abilities which were presumably dormant during most of her youth. After being humiliated in front of the entire school during the prom, in a cruel prank involving pig's blood, Carrie triggers her exceptionally strong telekinetic abilities and in a fit of blind rage uses he...