Why did it have to be pig blood?

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OldFriendOfTheChristys — 9 years ago(January 16, 2017 10:28 AM)

Perhaps the novel explains it - I haven't read it in years - but why did Chris insist on killing a
pig
in order to humiliate Carrie? Couldn't she just as easily filled that bucket with pig
urine
or something?

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deem_bastille — 9 years ago(January 16, 2017 11:04 AM)

Pigs blood is easier to get. pigs urine really? you want that task? you must really hate Carrie White in order to go from swine to swine with a bucket under their hoohahs!
the basis was 'pigs blood for a pig' her being all mousy and hair drawn and dirty is where the pig comes from.
the blood also comes from what happened to carrie in the beginning and how she reacted to it. she didn't sit in class and wet herself, she had her first period and had no idea what it was.
Oh God. Fortune
vomits
on my eiderdown once more.

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preachcaleb — 4 years ago(October 11, 2021 04:47 PM)

That pretty much explains it perfectly. It's easier to get the blood, and it's a humiliating call back to her experience in the shower.
So many stories, so little time.

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ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(October 14, 2021 12:21 PM)

Pig's blood for a pig, for that is how Hargensen saw her.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?