Posted by paulb on May 4, 2016, at 13:19:58
In reply to Re: Misery-by Stephen KIng, posted by Horse on January 21, 2016, at 0:21:29
Yes i definetely agree the shining is the one that cuts close to the bone. Thinking about it i feel it is about a flawed guy who is remembering his father, a drunken brute who abused his son pysically, mentally and emotionally....all the ways it can be done in other ways. i tink stephen king wanted to describe the fathers brutality and leave it there but i thought the people who had read the book like me would make the connection between Jacks relationship with his father and jacks relationship with his own son Danny who is te Shinings psychic force. I think Jacks love of his fater was because in spite of (peraps even because of his fathers unpredictable and brutal nature . (Just a bit more babblers). Instead of changing froma quite nice guy into a two dimensional villan pushed by supernatural forces to murder his wife and son Jack Torrance became a more realistic and frightening figure. A murderer who was motivated to his crimes by ghostly forces as well as childhood abuse as well thats what makes te shining so disturbing.PB
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