The Shining (book)

The Shining is a novel by   Stephen King  in 1977. The story revolves around the family Torrance, a deserted hotel in the winter season runs where it turns out to be haunted.

The book was filmed in 1980 as The Shining by Stanley Kubrick, adapting the story to the essential. In 1997, there was also a same mini-series of the book made ​​by Mick Garris, which follows the book precisely. King wrote the screenplay for this yourself. In 2013 the book was a sequel titled Dr. Sleep .



Content
[verbergen]  *1 Contents  ==Contents   == The book is divided into five parts.
 * 1.1 Part 1 - Preliminary Business
 * 1.2 Part 2 - Closing
 * 1.3 Part 3 - The Hornet's Nest
 * 1.4 Part 4 - Caught in the Snow
 * 1.5 Part 5 - On Life and Death
 * 2 Background
 * 3 Differences between the book and the film

Part 1 - Preliminary Affairs
Jack Torrance is a writer with a past as an alcoholic. This addiction has repeatedly thwarted his career and ensured that he broke the arm of his five year old son Danny in a drunken stupor. The turning point came when he raced with his brother Al drink drunk on the road and the car boasted a children's bike. Though they found no child could have sat on the bike, Jack and Al immediately stopped drinking. Jack is trying to stay off the booze and complete the play he wants to write. All uses its influence as a board to help Jack to a job as manager of the Overlook Hotel. This should be fitted in during the winter months when it is empty.Danny has a paranormal ability (the shining) and entrusts the hotel not. He would prefer not to, but is silent about it because he realizes that this is a last chance for his father to make something of his professional life.

Part 2 - Closing
On the closing day of the hotel involving Jack, his wife Winnifred (Wendy) and their son Danny away. That is secluded in the high mountains at Sidewinder. Danny feels that there are bad things have happened in the hotel and going to happen. The hotelkok Dick Hallorann appears to also have this gift and press Danny on the heart to call him through 'light' when there are difficulties.

Part 3 - The Hornet's Nest
As winter approaches the Torrance family sitting alone in the hotel. Danny will see appearances by his gift. The hose behaves like a real snake that wants to attack him, he saw bloodstains on the wall and in Room 217 gets there a few years ago deceased wife out of the bath to get him. Wendy's worried about him. Jack becomes increasingly fascinated by Overlook and its history starts and Wendy and Danny regarded more and more as people who have the bad with him, and Overlook want to take off.

Part 4 - Caught in the Snow
Jack also gets nightmares in Overlook. He sees change the hedge animals in the garden of attitude and location and fears wanting attack him. In a nightmare he hits the radio, with which they have contact with the outside world, broken. Danny has bruises on his neck as the woman in the bathroom he tried to verwurgen. Wendy accuses Jack of having done it. Jack is furious and wants to seek refuge in the drink. If he enters the bar is filled with these bottles of liquor, while there was not a drop of liquor in the hotel when she withdrew it. Jack is served by bartender Lloyd, although outside him, Wendy and Danny nobody else in the hotel was present when she withdrew it. Jack starts to neglect his family and always keep more of the hotel. He becomes convinced that the hotel has big plans for him. So he makes the snowmobile disabled, so they can no longer away. Danny foresees danger and calls Hallorann with 'light'.

Part 5 - On Life and Death
Hallorann receives the message and travels directly down towards Overlook, but the hotel is difficult to reach through the snow. Jack arrives at a big party in the lobby of the hotel where guests from the entire history of the hotel are available. He meets waiter Delbert Grady. Grady managed the hotel for Jack, then became insane and killed his family before committing suicide. Grady turn led to Jack, as he, his family to "correct".Meanwhile, Wendy Jack hears talk to people who are not there. When she goes to the hall she finds Jack there, unconscious, behind the bar. When Jack wakes up he is aggressive toward Wendy and tries to strangle her. Wendy knocks him down with an empty bottle. Along with Danny closes Wendy Jack in the pantry and then barricaded himself with Danny in her bedroom.

When Jack wakes state Grady at the pantry. Jack Grady art and thereby makes him more aggressive. He then Jack now promise to do everything to murder his family and he lets Jack free. It wants Danny's gift for himself as Danny died. Jack arming himself with a hammer Roque and hides in the hall. If Wendy wants to go get food he comes out and he attacks her. Wendy injured, but reached her room and closes the door on the lock. Danny is gone from the room, but since Jack the door in ramming she can do anything. She locks himself in the bathroom. If Jack is inside, he starts banging on the bathroom door. If he has beaten a hole in the door he tries to remove the lock, but Wendy cuts in his hands with a razor blade.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Meanwhile Hallorann arrived at the hotel. The road will be barred to him by the hedge animals come to life. Hallorann knows the animals pass and come into the hotel. Jack heard him and decided to first disable Hallorann before he turns back to Wendy and Danny. He hits Hallorann unconscious with Roque hammer and then goes looking for Danny. Danny is hiding in a hotel room. When he hears Jack, he fled to the third floor. Jack chases him and lock him in. If Danny Jack confronts the fact that he was abused by the hotel, as Jack comes to himself. If he orders his son to flee, Danny refuses. Jack then starts hitting himself with the hammer Roque, making the hotel gets full control over Jacks body. Jack wants to murder his son, but Danny reminds him that he has forgotten to relieve pressure on the boiler. The boiler is on this jump. Jack goes to the cauldron to turn this close. Danny, Wendy and Hallorann flee out of the hotel. Eventually, the boiler exploded and the whole hotel, with Jack still in it, destroyed.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In the epilogue live Wendy and Danny at Hallorann in Florida. Wendy will soon Danny live elsewhere. Danny must now cope without a father, but decided to make the best of it.

Background
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">After his last, Carrie and owned town, are both happened in small towns in King's own state, Maine , wanted to Stephen King for his third novel like a different environment. His choice finally fell in Boulder , Colorado. On October 30, 1974 Stephen King and his wife visited the hotel Stanley to see more of the environment there. Because it was already the end of the holiday season, the two were the only guests that night. They spent the night in room 217, where according to stories would haunt. These elements were used by King later in his story. In their own words King had that night in the hotel a nightmare in which his then three year old son in the corridors of the hotel was haunted by a fire hose . Also this element is to be found in the book.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">King allowed himself to The Shining also inspired by Ray Bradbury 's The Veldt ; a story about a man whose dreams become reality. In 1972, King had an idea for such a story called Dark Shine, but this book was never completed. Other inspirations Shirley Jackson 's The Haunting of Hill House , Edgar Allen Poe 's The Mask of the Red Death and The Fall of the House of Usher, and Robert Marasco 's Burnt Offerings .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">King completed the first version of The Shining in four months. The title is based on the phrase "We all shine on ..." from the song " Instant Karma! " of John Lennon . King's editor Bill Thompson thought it unwise after Carrie and Possessed city to bring back a horror story, since according to him, would get a reputation as King of horror writer. King, however, saw this as a compliment. ==<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);"><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">Differences  between the book and the film ==
 * In Kubrick's film Jack uses an ax as a weapon. In the book, this is a hammer Roque .
 * In the book Hallorann survives the story. In Kubrick's film he is assassinated upon his arrival at Overlook Jack.
 * The chase scene between Jack and Danny finds in the book take place in the hotel. In Kubrick's film, this takes place in the labyrinth of the hotel. The labyrinth is not present in the book and the film takes the place of the hedge animals.
 * In the book's Danny at room 217 inside. In the film, he does not.
 * In the book, Jack, along with the hotel, bloated. In Kubrick's film freezes Jack death after he got lost in the maze.
 * In the book, Danny still in the room when Wendy is on the run for Jack. He later escaped through the window in the bathroom.
 * In Kubrick's film are the spirits of the twin daughters of Delbert Grady for. In the book, the Grady twins not. Moreover, in the book of triplets.
 * Wendy has black hair in Kubrick's film. King describes it in his book as a blonde.
 * In the book, Jack thinks seeing the woman in room 217 down and she comes after him. In the film, Jack sees her stand out the bath and he knows it arrives behind him.