The Shining Book Report

In Unbroken, by Lauren Hillenbrand the setting plays a significant role. The story starts the childhood of a man named Louie. He grew up with his Italian family in Torrance, California during the 1920s and 30s. He was the middle child and was considered a troublemaker. Because of his behavior, his behavior, his older brother, Pete, made him try out for the track. His performance was amazing and as a result he was allowed to join the team. Everyday he was training with his brother. He won all of yhe local track meets and went on to run in the 1936 olympics in Germany. He ran the 5,000 meter race. Even though he finished in 7th place, he broke the world record for the fastest final lap with 56 seconds. Louie was determined to perform better in the 1940 olympics.

Many people have to go through difficult times, but many do not have to face what Louie Zamperini faced. Louie Zamperini was an Olympic athlete in WWII. While on a bombing run, he crashed in the Pacific Ocean and was stranded for 47 days at sea. He was captured, beaten, and torchered by the Japanese for two years. In Laura Hillenbrand’s book, Unbroken, Louie Zamperini showed rebelliousness and resistance while at the harsh POW camps, but uses these traits to survive the Japanese’s mind games and beatings.

“He gave up drinking and smoking.” Louie did exactly this, because he knew the potential he had in running, and wanted to reach that potential. Louie is the main character in the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Almost the whole story revolves around him, and his magnificent life. Louie has grown from being a very troubled young boy, to being a very mature, giving, and humble young man.

First off, the summary of the book is about a boy named Danny who lived with his Ma in New York City, but that all changed

The last engine of the plan goes out as the crew of the “superman” hurls towards the ground; “Prepare for impact” was a understatement. An american biographical war thriller book, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand describes Louis Zamperini life as he grows up from getting in trouble to becoming one of the most bravest and strongest people to date. In early childhood, Louis Zamperini grew up getting in trouble as much as possible, but as he grew older he became more of a man due to his new love for running. Running became such a passion and talent it brought him to the 1936 Summer olympics; unfortunately he only came in 8th. Louis later got drafted into the army where he became part of the “superman” crew in the United States Air Forces. Through traumatic events, he gets lost at sea and eventually gets captured to be sent to a camp of war. He faces many obstacles following the rest of the

The setting takes place in present day Texas throughout the whole novel. The setting takes place in modern day Texas. The main characters are Sunny Reynolds- the main detective who was 13 years old, Jasmine Reynolds- Sunny’s older sister who was loved by everyone and known the perfect child. She was reported dead when there was a fire in the building that she was in, but was never dead because she sent a letter to her family saying that she ran away for a little while not knowing that they thought she was dead, Deborah Hallard a girl who looked and pretended to be Jasmine Reynolds (the girl who died), but knew everything

H.G. Bissinger tells the story of the obsessive town of Odessa, Texas in his book, Friday Night Lights. This town has a toxic obsession with high school football and wastes away life until Friday nights. The expectations held for the athletes of Odessa are suicidal and the preparation for life outside of high school is almost non existent. The town of Mount Vernon, Iowa also lives for Friday nights, however they have a healthy balance between these exciting events and ordinary life. Mount Vernon athletes are held to reasonable standards and are thoroughly being prepared for a successful future.

One example of her good details was in part V when she talked about what happened to most of the POWs after the war. She said, “A 1954 study found that in the first two postwar years, former Pacific POWs died at almost four times the expected rate for men of their age…” (p. 354). This quote shows that Hillenbrand payed attention to detail and made sure to include facts to support her ideas. However, Hillenbrand sometimes included too many facts and information so it started to distract from the story. One example is when Louie first meets the Bird at camp Omori, but then Hillenbrand started to talk about one time that the Bird went to beat another prisoner when she should have been talking about how the Bird was treating Louie because it is his story. There were only a couple of times that happened though and for the most part the facts and extra information did not detract from the story at all. Although Hillenbrand sometimes may have added too much information, the rest of the time, the facts and other stories enhanced the story and helped to set the tone. Hillenbrand’s idea of focusing on resilience and all of her details and facts all helped to convey the message of Louie’s experience and to readers and in made the story more valid and intriguing because of some of the odds that

The setting of the novel is in present day in Seattle, Washington. The main character of the story is Mick Johnson. Mick’s father was a failure as an NFL football player and now looks to Mick to pick up his dreams as

What is horror? Webster's Collegiate Dictionary gives the primary definition of horror as "a painful and intense fear, dread, or dismay." It stands to reason then that "horror fiction" is fiction that elicits those emotions in the reader. An example of a horror film is "The Shining", directed by Stanley Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick was a well-known director, producer, writer and cinematographer. His films comprised of unique, qualitative scenes that are still memorable but one iconic film in his collection of work is The Shining. Many would disagree and say that The Shining was not his best work and he could have done better yet, there are still those who would say otherwise. This film was not meant to be a “scary pop-up” terror film but

The character of Dan “Danny” Torrance is best known for his role in the fictional story of The Shining and Doctor Sleep by Stephen King. As a child Danny goes through a large amount of heavy trauma ranging from domestic abuse from his father to being inside of a hotel during a mass boiler explosion. His life as he grew up was riddled with night terrors and hallucinations driving Danny to become an alcoholic in order to drive away the nightmare images and the memories of the explosion and the death of his father.

The Shinning directed by Stanley Kubrick is considered by many to be a classic dramatic thriller. The movie released on May 23, 1980 and is based on the book by “the king of horror” himself Stephen King. The movie follows Jack Torrance, a struggling writer and his family as Jack becomes the winter care taker at an isolated resort. As time passes Jack begins to learn the dark past of the hotel and becomes deranged, as he tries to kill his family. Kubrick employs many fictional and dramatic elements to elevate his story telling ability and maintains the audience at the edge of their seats.

Thomas is the narrator and protagonist of the story. He arrives in the maze with no knowledge of who he is or was. He only remembers his name and nothing else about his life. Thomas proves to be brave and clever even though he only has a very limited memory of previous knowledge of the Maze. Since arriving in the maze, Thomas makes both friends and enemies and proves to be a leader among the other boys with him in the maze.

A number of strange incidents occur throughout the story. Jack finds a wasps' nest while maintaining the roof, uses an appropriate wasp bomb on it, and puts it in Danny's room. That night, although Jack had checked there were no wasps still in the nest, Danny is stung several times, and when Jack manages to put a bowl over the nest, there are many wasps trapped inside. Then in an almost hypnotic fit after spending too much time going through the hotel's papers in the boiler room, Jack smashes the radio, effectively cutting them off from the rest of the world as snow has fallen heavily, and reaching the nearest town has become impossible except by snowmobile.

Recently during this last summer, I have determined to read the book “The Shining” by Stephen King. The reason that I chose this book is that this book was meant to be a backup book for another book, “Peregrine” by John Alec Baker. However, I was incapable of finishing that book because I couldn’t be engaged the premise of the book nor its intricate details of bird observation. On the other hand, “The Shining” was more feasible to enter, as I was already familiar with the book. With that said, “The Shining” was a pleasure to read. It has a simple organization as described in the following: the beginning contains the exposition, the middle introduces the main setting, and the ending concludes with the characters’ departure. The flow and