Alcoholism In Stephen King's The Shining

New York Times has named Stephen King number one best seller in horror and fantasy from the early 1970’s to the late 1980’s. King felt he was on top of the world when he wrote Carry in 1974, but when his mother died Shortly after the book was published, King had a sever drinking problem and made his career go into a rut. After he made his family move from Maine to Boulder, Co where his alcoholism became worse and King had writers block for almost two years. No one thought he would pull through because alcohol was running is life and he was not writing anymore novels, that was until Stephen King had a vision of an idea about the Outlook hotel, and a man losing his family and mind to alcohol. That book was called the Shining, and it has been said it saved Stephen King, and dragged him out of death, put him back on his feet and away from his fate. Steven King was on top of his game in the early 1970’s in writing horror novels. He married Tabitha Spruce during …show more content…
It’s Stephen King’s most famous book he ever wrote, about Jack Torrance who made their family stay in the Outlook hotel in the Rockies of Colorado where Jack was a survivor from alcoholism, but soon the hotel will have possessed him and change his family and him forever. The novel turned into a movie then a mini television series. The Shining is still Stephen King’s favorite book he wrote because how it saved and changed his life. If he never went to the Stanley, he would have died from alcohol posing and joined the party what the bar tender had in store for him. It is important to realize that King would have never pulled himself out from drinking the problem would have completely taken over his state of mind, but he did not let alcohol take over his. King seek help and from that his life was successful. When it comes to death it brings the idea of overcoming the problem that brought people close to it changing their life for