Name:Edna Rios
Date: May 24,2010
" All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"
-Jack
The author Stephen king whom wrote "The Shinning" was born in Maine in 1947.He is the author of multiple books and screen plays.He is best known for his horror and fiction literary works.Stephen King wrote novels such as "Carrie","The Shinning","Dark Tower" and many more.He has also received multiple awards and has been nominated for many others. Some awards such as the Alex Award,Balrog Award,Black Quill Award and many others.Stephen king works are well known and enjoyed as well as the shows he has been staring in. He currently lives with his wife enjoying the warm weather in the winter as they travel as the forecast changes.
"The Shinning" by Stephen King is based on a family of 3,father,mother and son and their experiences in the Overlook hotel that rest on a mountain top in Colorado.The father Jack has taken the position of the hotel care taker during the winter time.His family and him are the only ones staying in the hotel or so they thought they were.As their time spent in the hotel, changes begin to occur and the family start to realize they aren't alone in the hotel.Jacks anger and abuse as well as alcoholism allows for the ghost in the Overlook hotel to posses him into attempting to kill his family.The Son Danny begins to see ghost and disturbing foreshadowing of the hotel past.During their stay at the Overlook jack is warned by the hotel cook about the sinister room 237 and the family before them.The family before them, the father killed his family by chopping them and later after killing himself with a shotgun.
Date: May 24,2010
" All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"
-Jack
The author Stephen king whom wrote "The Shinning" was born in Maine in 1947.He is the author of multiple books and screen plays.He is best known for his horror and fiction literary works.Stephen King wrote novels such as "Carrie","The Shinning","Dark Tower" and many more.He has also received multiple awards and has been nominated for many others. Some awards such as the Alex Award,Balrog Award,Black Quill Award and many others.Stephen king works are well known and enjoyed as well as the shows he has been staring in. He currently lives with his wife enjoying the warm weather in the winter as they travel as the forecast changes.
"The Shinning" by Stephen King is based on a family of 3,father,mother and son and their experiences in the Overlook hotel that rest on a mountain top in Colorado.The father Jack has taken the position of the hotel care taker during the winter time.His family and him are the only ones staying in the hotel or so they thought they were.As their time spent in the hotel, changes begin to occur and the family start to realize they aren't alone in the hotel.Jacks anger and abuse as well as alcoholism allows for the ghost in the Overlook hotel to posses him into attempting to kill his family.The Son Danny begins to see ghost and disturbing foreshadowing of the hotel past.During their stay at the Overlook jack is warned by the hotel cook about the sinister room 237 and the family before them.The family before them, the father killed his family by chopping them and later after killing himself with a shotgun.
There were numerous death in the hotel as well and the ghost begin to speak to both Danny and jack.Jack goes insane and begins to take actions as the father before him did.As Danny begins to see more ghost related imagines such as the two twin girls that died and begins to go into shock and sees the overflowing of blood in the hallway of the hotel the mother begins to notice the change in her husband.She carries a bat in order to protect her son and herself from her husband.As the chase begins"Come out, come out, wherever you are!" the mother seeks ways to protect her family but never imagine the act she has to do in order to protect.As Danny begins to be chased by Jack he realizes he is leaving behind a trail to be caught by.He begins to back track and hide from jack.Wendy the mother finds a way out of the hotel and sees her son get out and with the knife strikes jack while so he freezes in the snow cover ground.Without doubt the mother accomplishes and her family is safe yet leaves behind the father in order to live.
Stephen king literary work "The Shinning" expresses the use of psychoanalysis.Psychoanalysis is the set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders;based on the theories of Sigmund Freud."The Shinning" has used the fathers alcohol abuse and inner anger to release and take range in the attempt to kill his family."God, I'd give anything for a drink. I'd give my god-damned soul for just a glass of beer" shows his addiction. The frustration he feels with his lack of writing allows his family to be targeted with no possible reasoning other then his depression.His anger weakens him and allows him to be possed by ghost and gives him motives to kill. Jack no longer has any self control but his determination has increased as his stay in the Overlook extends.Stephen king similar experiences has been put into his novel ''The Shinning" as his character Jack follows the same foot steps as king.Not only does his underlying motives is written within the characters but as king writes his novel.The viewing of a fellow friend passing had opened his skills in writing to target horror literary and with his character Jack whom is a writer action is to kill.Jack Torrance:" Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in". within the mother her underlying motive to keep her family together and happy she seems to miss out the signs that her family is in danger so she becomes blind and ignores the signs.
"The Shinning" is a must read novel and movie.The author Stephen king makes his novels a must read,cant seem to put them down.With "The Shinning" you will find the horror to be intense but begin to notice how alike the author is with his character and their psychoanalysis.Each character has its motive but before reading the novel read Stephen king biography in order to understand more of where king got his talent to write.''The Shinning" gives his character a motive but with out reading till the end you will not seem to see it clearly.
1. What has the author done well? What stands out to the reader?
ReplyDelete2. Is the draft complete? What needs to be done today to get it to the next level by the end of class?
3. Is the discussion of the work detailed? Can you “see” what is happening in the story?
4. Is the language clear? What problems do you see?
5. Does the author cite their sources properly (everyone should at least cite their story)? If in doubt, Google search a few passages.
1.Throughout the essay you summarized the novel very well and your background information about the author is what stood out to me.
2.I think your interpretation of King’s use of psychoanalysis was good but it should be expanded and clarified for the final draft.
3.The detail in your summary was clear enough for me to “see” what’s happening in the story.
4.There were some minor grammatical errors but nothing severe enough to where your ideas can’t be understood.
5.There were no works cited