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A theme is an underlying message of a story. Stephen King’s Carrie holds many themes in its context. Most of them represent the attitudes, personalities, and decency of the average high school student. The moral standard that you should treat others the way you wish to be treated is reflected in Carrie through the characters of Christine Hargensen, Margaret White, and Susan Snell. Christine Hargensen is Carrie’s number one enemy, and she is usually the ringleader of the mean tricks played on her. Chris, for example, is the one who starts the rude chanting when Carrie gets her period for the first time at school. She ruthlessly throws tampons and sanitary napkins at Carrie as she stands helplessly in the showers after gym class. Chris is also behind the pig blood incident at prom. She and her boyfriend, Billy Nolan, dump buckets of pig blood on top of Carrie when she and her date, Tommy Ross, stand on stage after being announced the prom king and queen. Carrie’s hatred for C