Sue Snell

Susan D. "Sue" Snell is a fictional character created by Stephen King. She was in his first published novel, Carrie in 1973, and also appeared in the 1976 film, the 1988 musical, the 1999 film sequel, the 2002 television movie, and the 2013 film remake.

In every adaptation and portrayal of the character, she is a popular teenage girl dating Tommy Ross. After tormenting Carrie White in the locker room, Sue begins to feel remorse for her actions. She asks Tommy to do her a favor and take Carrie to the prom in an attempt to make Carrie feel accepted and to ease her own conscience. In this she has been described as the "godmother" in King's "dark modernization of Cinderella". The disaster that takes place at the high school prom is set in place when Tommy accepts.

Novel

In the novel, King uses commentaries by Sue Snell as one of his innovative narrative techniques to tell Carrie's history. Sue is a popular student at Ewen High School, who feels guilty after participating in a mean-spirited prank designed to humiliate Carrie. Her teacher, Rita Desjardin, says that Sue is not a bully by nature and therefore the shower incident is out of character. When the prank happened, Sue had been dating Tommy Ross for six months. While preparing for the prom, buying a gown and accepting Tommy’s invitation, Sue begins to plan for Carrie to go to the prom in her place.

Sue

Sue or SUE may refer to:

Places

As a personal name

Family name

Given name

ARC (file format)

ARC is a lossless data compression and archival format by System Enhancement Associates (SEA). It was very popular during the early days of networked dial-up BBS. The file format and the program were both called ARC. The ARC program made obsolete the previous use of a combination of the SQ program to compress files and the LU program to create .LBR archives, by combining both compression and archiving functions into a single program. Unlike ZIP, ARC is incapable of compressing entire directory trees. The format was subject to controversy in the 1980s—an important event in debates over what would later be known as open formats.

The .arc file extension is often used for several file archive-like file types. For example, the Internet Archive uses its own ARC format to store multiple web resources into a single file. The FreeArc archiver also uses .arc extension, but uses a completely different file format.

Nintendo uses an unrelated 'ARC' format for resources, such as MIDI, voice samples, or text, in GameCube and Wii games. Several unofficial extractors exist for this type of ARC file.

Sue (name)

Sue is a common short form of the following female given names:

It is rarely used as a man's name, a notable example being Sue K. Hicks (1895-1980), American jurist, who may have inspired the song A Boy Named Sue.

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