The Shining Movie And Book Comparison Essay

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Stephen Kings book & movie The Shining you see a family who is struggling to stay together. Together through past drinking problems and abuse the family is still together. When Jack Torrence gets hired for a job at the overlook hotel. The family thinks this could help. Maybe it could help the marriage, maybe it could help Danny. But what they didn't know is that they were heading for their death. While comparing the Shining book and movie I found there were different sources of evil in both. Also, I saw that both the book and movie tried to stick with the same themes and suspense. Finally, I noticed that Danny is not as awkward in the book compared to the movie. In the book the Shining Jack Torrance is a character with many flaws. Including alcoholic problem and abuse. In this book Jack Torrance is the source of evil. The hotel is merely just a boring setting in the book. It's not what the hotel brings to Jack it's what Jack brings to the hotel. But in the movie the Shining the Overlook hotel holds the evil. The movie shows this when Jack has flashbacks of past murders in the Overlook hotel. Also, the movie shows this in the beginning where you see jack …show more content…

I see the theme of murder in both the book and the movie. I see this in the book when Jack Torrance is chasing his family around the hotel trying to kill them. I see this in the movie when Jack Torrance murders Holloran while he is trying to save Wendy and Danny Torrence. Another example of a theme in both the book and the movie is family. You see the theme of family in both the book and the movie. When the Torrence’s got the job they had hope. As the word divorce has popped up a lot they thought that the hotel was gonna be a new hope. But what they didn't know is that they were heading for their demise. That's explains how the movie and the book the Shining both have similar

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