Stephen King
 Born September 21, 1947
 He worked at a mental institution during
his younger years which gave him ideas
on books.
 He’s written over 70 books.
 He’s married to Tabitha King and has
three children.
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http://www.stephenking.com/the_author.html
Danny Torrance
The Protagonist.
 Danny Torrance, son of Jack and Wendy, has the shining.
The shining is a psychic power that allows Danny to see
spirits, the past, the future and see what people feel or
what they think.
 He has an Imaginary friend named Tony, who at first is a
playmate, and then shows Danny disturbing images, and
later he is back to a trust worthy friend. (In the book, Tony
does NOT live in his finger.)
The Overlook Hotel
The Antagonist.
 The Overlook Hotel has been transformed into an
evil sentient entity.
 The Hotel is haunted by many evil spirits and
ghosts. (such as Mrs. Massey (the woman in room
217), Delbert Grady (the old caretaker) Lloyd (the
bar tender), Mr. Derwent and his lover Roger (also
known as the Dogman))
 The hotel wants Danny so they use Danny’s father
Jack to get to him using Alcohol, making Jack
susceptible to the hotels power.
Danny Torrance
My Favorite
Danny is my favorite character, he’s
so young, but so understanding
towards situations adults go
through, just because he can read
their minds.
He also understands the situation
between his father and mother and
tries to help out, but scares them a
little in the process due to the
Shining he possesses.
He’s just all around a cute character
who makes the entire novel come
alive.
Lloyd the Bartender
 Lloyd is my least favorite character because he hardly
talks, and he gives Jack the Alcohol which makes Jack
want to kill everyone.
 He’s not very interesting, he’s dull, and for a while he is
only conjured by the hotel.
 Lloyd pretty much ruins it all.
Exposition
 Jack Torrance is Danny’s father, he was an
alcoholic and he broke Danny’s arm when
Danny accidentally spilled work papers all
over the floor.
 Jack gets the job at the hotel when he
gets fired for beating up a student at the
university, his friend Al Shockley refers
him to the hotels manager and they take
him.
Rising Action
 Tony starts to show Danny some violent images when they are getting closer
to the moving day.
 In room 217, a dead lady, naked and rotting, is in the bath tub. Danny goes in
to explore and he see’s her, he tries to run but she catches him and chokes
him.
 Jack is outside trimming the hedge animals and they start moving, looking like
they are about to attack. Jack thinks about it as a hallucination and thinks no
more of it.
 Jack begins to get angry at everyone, his temper is not on his side, due to the
hotel.
Climax
 The hotel conjures up alcohol for Jack, and it
convinces him that his family hates him and they
only way to “Give them their medicine” is to kill
them.
 Jack tried to overthrow the hotel but the hotel
didn’t let him go, so he killed himself to save his
family.
 The broiler was left on in the basement, causing
the hotel to blow up, allowing Danny and Wendy
to escape.
Falling Action
 Danny and Wendy find a snowmobile and finally leave the
hotel.
 The cold was about to kill them but they found some
blankets and made it to the gas station 20 miles away.
Resolution
 Danny and Wendy go to a hotel and stay there for a while
to recover from the bangs and bruises that the hotel gave
them.
Setting
 (The book was written in 1977 and it was written to be in
present day.) The book takes place in the winter, which
causes them to be stuck at the hotel during the snow
clears up.
 The Overlook Hotel was built in Colorado and the location
of the hotel makes it very difficult to get out during the
winter which gives the hotel more of an advantage.
Theme
 Horror! Eeek!
 The whole book is terrifying and suspenseful so it falls
under the horror category.
Rating
 (The book has offensive language and very graphic
descriptions)
 I think this book is a 10! It is full of fear and total intense
and it doesn’t let you put it down!
What NOT to expect!
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf7h6o3I8yw
Intro to social issue
The family was discussing Danny’s Shining and thought that
he could be Schizophrenic. So my social issue is mental
illness, mostly schizophrenia, and how mental illness is
misunderstood.
What is Schizophrenia?
 A mental disorder consisting of hallucinations, paranoid or
strange delusions, and disorganized speech and thinking.
 Only about 1% of the population has schizophrenia.
 People with Schizophrenia have trouble living a normal life
because they have a hard time knowing what is reality and
what they are hallucinating.
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http://schizophrenia.about.com/bio/Catherine-Harrison-PhD-33873.htm
Schizophrenia Video
 I chose this video because it relates to my book very well.
It shows the Dark Side of Schizophrenia.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4b-_bNsajY
Schizophrenia by Blue October
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkx81j_Slz8
Schizophrenia Poem
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Maya
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I must overcome my fear,
Regardless of the jeers, or the voices
that I hear. I must focus.
I must overcome.
I feel I’m on a stage,
they make me feel deranged. I’m naked
for all to see,
they peer inside
of me. Everyday.
I am my own enemy.
My fears, they limit me. I started to
disappear,
I grew fatter,
I fed on my fear.
Still, within I seek my truth.
Inside I hold the key.
Self – knowledge, set me free.
I must focus,
I must overcome.
Stigma
 People think that only because people are mentally ill with
a type of psychosis, then they are freaks, or crazy weird
people with no life.
 People relate violence to mentally ill people.
 While there are certainly violent and murderous people
who have schizophrenia and related mental illnesses, such
individuals make up only a very small portion of the
population of chronically mentally ill people.
 Violence is shown to appear more by people who abuse
substances rather then mentally ill.
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http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=8814&cn=7
Schizophrenia and Violence
 The case of Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in
a bout of postpartum psychosis.
 David Berkowitz, the serial killer infamously known as the
Son of Sam who claimed his dog spoke to him and urged
him to kill.
 Mark David Chapman, the man who killed Beatle John
Lennon
 John Hinckley, who attempted to assassinate President
Ronald Reagan.
 These are some cases that were big in the media.
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http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=8814&cn=7
Citations
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http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=8814&cn=7
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia
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http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question49477.html
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http://www.stephenking.com/index.html