The Shining

Hello people's. Today I'm writing more about The Shining. Here it goes.

So from one of my last few blogs I've told you that I've seen the movie and got the book and it's sequel, Doctor Sleep for Christmas. I've already finished the book and I'm over half way done Doctor Sleep. This blog is gonna be about the differences between the movie and the book.

One of the first few differences is another past incident that happens to Jack that makes him feel even more guilty about what he's done on top of him breaking his son's arm. It was when he was still an English teacher in high school and he was in charge of a debate club and he had one kid who was really good but whenever the kid felt like he was going to win he would start to stutter. So one class the kid was debating and started to stutter and after class Jack told him he was going to have to kick him from the club and they got in an argument with the kid saying that Jack sped up his timer. Jack denies that completely in the book when he's going over the story. Later Jack see's the kid slashing his tires with a knife and Jack flew into a rage and almost killed the kid with him ending up with a severe concussion. This is also why Jack was originally fired from his teaching position which I don't think was explained in the movie. As time goes on in the book he changes his story as his guilt becomes greater, saying secondly that even if somehow if he did set the timer ahead it was only by a minute to put him out of his misery and then thirdly saying that he only set it forward one measly minute as the tension rises.

Another one of the more scary differences is the hotel itself. In the movie it's more of Jack going insane and the ghosts in the hotel help him become insane. In the book the hotel starts out as being not as bad just creepy sometimes but we learn that since Danny's shine is so powerful it's making the hotel a stronger and stronger malevolent force and using it's dark past to bring back ghosts and fragments of the past to control Jack and his family. However the hotel still needs Danny for his steam, (explained in Doctor Sleep), and it still isn't powerful enough to seriously injure the family so the hotel starts bringing back ghosts and powerful happenings to guilt rid Jack who starts becoming obsessed with the hotel and it's history, eventually believing they want him and not his son.

(SPOILER) This spoils the ending of both the movie and the book. In the movie Jack is driven mad by everything happening around him and he tries to take an axe to Danny and Wendy, he kills Dick Hallorannn but after a climatic chase through the hedge maze, Danny and Wendy escape in the Snowcat, and Jack with his wounded leg freezes to death outside. In the book, Jack is brought into a party just like he is in the movie and the hotel promises him things using ghosts as its speaker. They end up making a deal that if he brings it Danny then he would get in good with the manager (the hotel itself) and maybe even rise to management status. After giving him plenty of booze from his alcoholic days, (it is unclear whether the hotel was powerful enough to give him real alcohol because the hotel had none when Jack got there but afterwards he is in a drunken rage.), Jack "comes to his senses" and sets off to kill his family this time with a roque mallet. He seriously injures Wendy and Dick and climatically chases his son through the halls cursing and slamming his mallet into the walls. Finally Danny reaches a dead end and bravely tricks his father. He knows that his father is no longer there, that the hotel has pretty much consumed his soul. He voices this to his father and confuses whatever is left of him until the hotel gives up and... SPOILER TURN BACK NOW IF YOU DONT WANT THE ENDING RUINED (or if your squeamish) the person that was once Jack Torrance slowly raises his mallet into the sky and again, and again, and again, he brings it down... On his own face. He slowly turned to his son and horrifying faces of the ghosts are transformed into the bone that makes up his skull revealing that Jack Torrance is truly dead and all that's left of him is with the hotel now. But Danny still has one more trick up his sleeve. Tony, before disappearing for a long time says, " You will remember what was forgotten" and Danny remembers at that time that the boiler hasn't been checked up on and if it's left unattended it could blow up and destroy the entire hotel. Danny tells the hotel and it runs for the boiler screaming and shrieking like something no longer human and Danny, Wendy, and Dick escape before the hotel erupts into flames.

Bye peoples. REDRUM.


By Ashton