setting

The story takes place in the town of Chamberlain, Maine in the mid 1970s. The setting of the book is realistic and easily accepted as a normal standard for the year. There is very little that is unusual about the town other than the fact that one of its citizens has telekinetic powers. The reader will see many things in the story that are within believability, such as the children in the school picking a child to pick on who is poor and socially unskilled, as well as the social cliques that are established in regard to Carrie's peers. When Carrie begins to destroy the town, the author relates her path back home through the town and explains the path of destruction that Carrie leaves as she makes her way back to the street where her own house is located.