The Shining Movie And Book Comparison Essay

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

being a completely sane person. That's how the difference in the evil made the book the Shining and the movie the Shining very different.
In the book and the movie the Shining I also found out that they both try to stick with the same themes and they both build suspense.

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

themes
One of the other differences from the book and the movie the Shining is with the boy, Danny. The difference noticed is how the boy acts. In the movie he acts more unengaged and awkward. At sometimes you would think he's crazy. But what we see in the book is Danny being a more engaged character. He still has flashes, but treats them more normal. He seems more grown up in the book. Another example of Danny being difference in the book and is movie is how he acts with his father. In the book Danny’s father is his best friend. They are close but Danny feels more close to his father than his father feels to him. In the end of the book when Jack goes crazy he tells Danny to run away, I believe that shows the relationship between him and his father. But in the movie I think that Danny is more distant from his father and less connected to him. Jack stills cares for his son but he believes that he needs serious help. That relates back to how Danny is much more crazy and weird in the movie than the book.
After watching and reading the Shining I've thought a lot. Would I want to go to the hotel? If it was my dad would I try to save him? And if you were in Wendy's position would you leave after the accident? These are just some of the many things that Stephen king leaves us to think about in the book The Shining.