The Shining

They stopped at the edge of a cliff. In a large expanse of ground beneath them, was the remains of a recently collapsed piece of land. For as far as Jingyan could see, the serpentine fissures that spanned the width of a house wound out from a steep sinkhole in the center of the land, creating an additional depth to the already sunken land. There was a heavy stench of lingering gunpowder and the fissures were filled with uprooted trees and crumpled earth. According to the maps, Jingyan once…

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…

Stephen King is a renowned 21st century author, best known for horror novels such as The Shining and It. However, King took much more of a science fiction approach with 11/23/63. In short, 11/23/63 is a novel about stereotypical time travel with the usual Stephen King plot twists. Although none of the ideas within the novel are necessarily new, specific additions to the plot of the novel made it feel fresh and original. Jake Epping is a newly divorced English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine,…

you asked one guy, he would say the ball was orange and the other guy would say the ball was green, and they would argue with each other because they both thought they were telling the full truth. In reality, they were both wrong, there was a light shining on the ball and the ball was actually red on one side and blue on the other and the light made the ball look like a different color. So many people get an idea in their head and…

Shining Library Book Me and classmates were told that we had to do something nice for the school. It wasn’t just our grade, it was the whole middle school who had to something. There were tons of jobs to be done just inside the building. When it was nice out, some of the 8th graders would go out and do the things outside, while the rest of us stayed inside. My job was organizing the bookshelf in the library. Unless it was a short week or you were gone most of it, everyone had to do their job…

such an obsession over a little eye that he decided to kill. The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is a movie about Jack Torrance becoming the winter caretaker of a hotel with a very large history. Both of these compositions use the characters, the plot and the setting to demonstrate that obsession can cause a person to go completely psychotic. The characters in both The Tell Tale Heart and The Shining first seem to…

The Shining is a novel published in 1977 by Stephen King, a well-known American author. He was renowned for using supernatural events in many of his stories making them a mixture of horror, gloom, and fantasy. King does a good job in all of his books to keep a relatively gloomy sensation while reading them. The Shining is no exception. This book had me more terrified than any other horror book or movie. While The Shining was a scary book, it also had me thinking about three of the main…

Mikela Gassert The Shining Example of Good Cinematography Film is both art and business: fields that strive to innovate. Artists who innovate leave a lasting legacy on their craft, demonstrate their adeptness, and add value to their field. Businesses must adapt constantly to survive in competitive markets; innovation represents a company’s economic lifeblood. One Steadicam film, The Shining, used the new techniques to further the film as a piece of art and as a financial success, particularly…

CA- Jennifer Aniston will be the special host for Shining Sea Jewelry’s annual Beach Bash event to raise money for the World Wildlife Foundation on Friday, March 11 at the Harborside Grand Ballroom. This event raises money to help the World Wildlife Foundation in preserving the habitats of wildlife globally. It will feature special performances by Ariana Grande and Drake. A live auction will take place that features prizes from the upcoming Shining Sea Summer collection. Some of these items…

The shining is a horror fiction novel by the author Stephen King. Stephen King is famous for his novels in the horror genre and The Shining is just one of the many thrilling books he has written. The Shining tells the story of a family of three: Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy Torrance, and their son Danny Torrance and the winter they spend at the Overlook Hotel. The Shining tells a great horror story, but what makes it a memorable book is the amount of detail that Stephen King provides the reader…