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    The Shining By: Stephen King Honors 10 Period 1 Ms.Salsbury Misty Beardsley October 5, 2017 Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947. As a child his family had little to no money. He grew with a brother, who was two years older than himself and adopted. In 1950, King's father left his family. After his father left, his mother, Ruth, and his brother traveled across the country, for nine years. When Ruth would work she would sometimes leave her two boys at home

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    Title: The Shining Author: Stephen King Genre: Horror Theme: Man Vs. The Overlook Hotel Setting: The Overlook Hotel, in a remote location on a mountain in Colorado. Major characters: Danny Torrance is a five year old boy who has the gift of shinning. Wendy Torrance is Danny's mother who is the strongest character, mentally, in this book. Jack Torrance is Danny's father who becomes insane toward the end of the story. Minor characters: Delbert Grady was the former

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    In the Novel the Shining by Stephen King, the three main characters are trapped in the supernatural Overlook hotel for the winter. The novel begins with the protagonist Jack Torrance in a job interview with the manager of the hotel, Ullman. Jack is looking for the job of caretaker of the hotel during the winter. The Hotel is located in an isolated town in Colorado, Even though Mr. Ullman doesn’t think Jack will be able to handle the job, he is still hired. Jack is married to a Wendy Torrance and

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    “The Shining” is a 1980 psychological horror film that was produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. At the beginning of the film, we see Jack Torrance, who is a writer and recovering alcoholic take a position as a caretaker at an almost abandoned hotel that is built on a Native American burial ground. Kubrick uses the hotel to his advantage as he uses the hotel to echo any and all sound. This is able to happen because of the hotels emptiness and size. All through the interview process the manager

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    Gore, ghost, and evil is what most people think of when describing horror films. The Shining is a thriller/ psychological horror film from 1980 that focus on a family that moves to an empty hotel for the winter. Creepy twins in a corridor or a mad man running around trying to murder his family is just some spin-chilling events of the film. What makes the shinning a great horror film, and is still well known today, has to be the actors, plot, and effects. Jack Nicholson does a magnificent job playing

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    can be a very dangerous thing. The book The Shining by Stephen King was made into a movie on May 23 1980. The Novel The Shining is about a family that moves into an old hotel as the caretakers for the winter. They begin seeing ghosts and know something's not right. Jack Torrance; the father of the family, Becomes possessed by the evil hotel and hunts his family down with the intention to kill them. Stanley Kubrick (The director of the film The Shining) did a great job turning the novel into a thrilling

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    Through the use of visual imagery and desperate repetition, King identifies that Jack Torrance’s main concern in the passage from “The Shining” is that his reputation will be tarnished, which reveals that he is concerned more about his image than his family’s safety. King uses visual imagery to establish how leaving the Outlook would result in Jack’s reputation being tarnished. When Jack contemplates his future outside of the hotel, King writes that Jack sees “The picture of John Torrance, thirty

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    Individual Study Compare the ways Steven King in The Shining and William Friedkin in The Exorcist use techniques to create suspense. Steven King in his 1977 novel The Shining and William Friedkin in his 2001 film The Exorcist establishes that suspense can be created in many forms while both being equally effective in its own right. Although the characters are faced with a horrific dilemma in two very different settings, the techniques used to create suspense can be similar. In both texts suspense

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    The Shining

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    How does Stanley Kubrick use narrative and stylistic features to manipulate the audience? The Shining was Stanley Kubrick’s 9th feature film and is renowned in the horror genre and is considered a masterpiece of cinema. Even though this film has such a striking difference to the rest of Kubrick’s work- it does have a common ground in style. Very much like 2001: a space odyssey, The Shining places the audience in the middle of a very unfamiliar territory and has a fixation on immersing the audience

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    Heroism In Susan's Room

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    Can you imagine being trap in one room with only a skylight as your source of the outside world? In “Room” directed by Lenny Abrahamson, a young mom and her five-year-old son being trapped in a room by her kidnapper. People seem to think this movie’s main character is a young child named Jack, but if you look at a different angle you can see that the mother is the main character. Her acts of heroism and ability to think for herself and her child show that she is the secret hero in this movie. Toward

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