AP Book Report 1. The Shining 2. Author and Date Written: Stephen King, 1977 3. Country: United States 4. Characters: Jack Torrance (Major)-A writer and former teacher who suffers from alcohol abuse and becomes the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel for the winter. Determined to make amends, he quits drinking and tries to finish his novel while working at the hotel. However, Jack slowly falls under the hotel’s influence and is constantly plagued by past mistakes and loses control. Danny Torrance (Major) - Jack’s five year old son with a special power called the “Shining”. He is able to see what others cannot, and is able to see the horror of the hotel they are staying in. Danny is also able to feel the rift between his parents, and tries to stop a divorce from happening. Wendy Torrance (Major) - Jack’s wife who stays with him during his winter job as caretaker. She began doubting Jack after he lost his job and broke Danny’s wrist because of alcohol. She believes in Danny’s powers and protects him from Jack as he slowly succumbs to the madness of the hotel. Dick Halloran (Major) -...
Throughout life people encounter a numerous amount of obstacles, some of these obstacles can be tougher than others. These obstacles don’t define who you are, how the situation is handled does. In the book The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, Jessica encounters a tremendous obstacle that life could throw at her. Jessica has had to learn to adjust her life from the way that she used to live. Her life is changing and she has to decide if this accident defines who she is going to be while being surrounded by the love and comfort of her family.
sports, he somewhat won back Sandy’s heart and stayed out of their friends but failed. Danny
The Winchester brothers dealt with angels and demons in “Supernatural” Season 9, Episode 21 titled “King of the Damned.” However, the main focus of the episode is the issue of control over Hell between demons Crowley (Mark Sheppard) and Abaddon (Alaina Huffman).
Jack is the leader of the boys choir group in civilization and he is the complete opposite of Ralph. Jack wants to be leader and won’t let anyone stand in his way he rules through fear and shows signs of militarism and dictatorship. He is cruel, sadistic and preoccupied with hunting and killing pigs to help the rest signal for help. His sadism only gets worse throughout the novel, and eventually turns cruelly on the other boys. Jack pretends to show an interest in the rules of order on the island, but he views the differently because they only allow him to inflict punishment. Jack represents greed, savage and the anarchic aspects of man.
Macon Leary is a middle-aged man who is a writer of a series of guidebooks called The Accidental Tourist that teaches businesspersons how to travel without leaving the comfort of their own homes. Macon's fascination with comfort and organization soon changes subsequent to the tragic loss of his only son. His world is flipped upside-down when his marriage of twenty years begins to fall apart. The death of Macon's son leads to the disseverment of his and Sarah's marriage because they have lost the ability to lead a life without their son. The two forget how to live a life on their own leading them to "wonder if there's any point to life" (Taylor 3). Sarah leaves Macon in order to find herself but his life is in complete chaos without the comfort of his wife. He decides to fill the void left by her departure by creating order in his life through reorganizing the house. Macon's reformation of the house does not keep him from thinking of his wife and child leaving the joy in his life is traveling and writing.
Like Ralph, Jack is charismatic and inclined to leadership. Unlike Ralph, he gets off on power and abuses his position above others so, he's basically an uptight spoiled little boy that can't be without his rich dad for long.
The death of Willie Starks and the circumstances force Jack to rethink the way he thinks. He rethinks a belief that no one can ever be responsible for the evil actions of another individual over time. In a way Jack feels responsible for Willie’s death. Jack eventually marries Anne Stanton and he feels orthodox about his decision to marry her. Jack restarts his long lost hobby of working on a book about Cass Mastern.
In the short story “The Reach,” Stephen King addresses the fact that in life there is a constant fear of death, but when confronted with it is easier to accept when someone has seen many deaths and knows that they are dying themselves. The narrator of the story knows that she is dying and, being an elder, has seen many deaths. We reach this conclusion when she questions the love she has for others and no longer cries when others die around her anymore. She has seen many deaths in the years and can only accept that death is inevitable and a part of life. Mostly everyone she grew up with has passed on already.
Only Stephen King could write such a spellbinding tale of a bunch of boys doing nothing but walking.
Slowly losing his sanity, the father enters a conversation with the ghost of a previous caretaker in the bathroom; they discuss his interest in joining the party, when the apparition asks why his son, Danny, “brought an outside party into [the Hotel]” (302). Referencing an African-American man Danny sent to save himself and his mother, Wendy, from his murderous father, Jack realizes that he must “shed his enlightened liberal schoolteacher/writer personality and adopt the racist views.. [of] wealthy, white, pre-Depression and pre-World War II American [males]” by killing the savior (302). He later succeeds, murdering the man en route to hunting down his son and wife. Furthermore, in the same conversation, Jack shows his narrow views as he references Wendy by calling her “the old sperm bank” (Metz 55).
Many people think that reading more can help them to think and develop before writing something. Others might think that they don’t need to read and or write that it can really help them to brainstorm things a lot quicker and to develop their own ideas immediately (right away). The author’s purpose of Stephen King’s essay, Reading to Write, is to understand the concepts, strategies and understandings of how to always read first and then start something. The importance of this essay is to understand and comprehend our reading and writing skills by brainstorming our ideas and thoughts a lot quicker. In other words, we must always try to read first before we can brainstorm some ideas and to think before we write something. There are many reasons why I chose Stephen King’s essay, Reading to Write, by many ways that reading can help you to comprehend, writing, can help you to evaluate and summarize things after reading a passage, if you read, it can help you to write things better and as you read, it can help you to think and evaluate of what to write about.
Jack usurps power, as he slowly ascends himself, as the tyrannical dictator over the group
Jack is more like someone from a cult of some description. He quite easily convinces everyone on the Island that there is a big horrible beast roaming around the place, which is ready to attack and kill at anytime. Jack got all the boys on his side by using scare tactics.
Divergent is set in a futuristic Chicago were everyone is separated into 5 sections of Chicago. Throughout the story the characters take trips to the Ferris Wheel of Navy Prier, the Hancock building, the Willis (formally Sears) Tower, and Millennium Park.
In his book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King says, “It is possible to overuse the well-turned fragment […], but frags can also work beautifully to streamline narration, create clear images, and create tension as well as to vary the prose-line.” (133) Though he doesn’t blatantly state it, King describes the use of constructive solecism. Constructive solecism can be defined as the use of a grammatical mistake in speech or writing in order to convey a message that wouldn’t get across if it had been written in the confines of proper grammar. Cage the Elephant, E.E. Cummings, and Daniel Keyes utilize the use of constructive solecism in their respective works, and by doing so they redefine the idea of having to have one’s work fit into the grammatical norm.