the shining the book compared to the movie

“The Shining” by Stephen King was a fascinating novel and movie. The movie and the novel have a lot of similarities and differences. “The Shining” was published by King in 1977, and still remains to be one of his best novels. The movie “The Shining” stars one of the best actors, Jack Nicholson, who plays Jack in the movie. In the novel, Jack Torrance is a recovering alcoholic who lost his teaching job due to beating a student for slashing his car's tires. Jack has certain arrogance and stubbornness about him; he does not like being under authority and often compromises himself or his job by retaliating to it. He takes his family to the hotel, but is driven by the hotel and its spirits to drink. Jack goes mad and attempts to kill Wendy, Danny and Dick Halloran with a roque mallet. At the end of the novel, Jack's love for his son allows him to redeem himself, and his body is incinerated in the Overlook Hotel's explosion. The movie and the novel have a great deal of similarities. In both the movie and the novel Jack is a school teacher and writer who is a recovering alcoholic. Jack gets drunk one night to find Danny messing around his office of school papers and ends up pulling him away and dislocating his arm. The movie and the novel have the same names of the characters that are in it. Both take place in Colorado in the Overlook Hotel. In both plots Danny has an imaginary friend named Tony who tells him things about the past and future. Also, Mr. Halloran also has the gift like Danny and it’s known as the shining. Mr. Halloran calls Danny “Doc” on his own before hearing it from Wendy or Jack in both. Danny and Wendy get the better of Jack and lock him in the food pantry to be safe. In the movie and novel Jack damages the snow mobile and the phone lines to make sure they are completely isolated with no form of connection with any outsiders.