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Stephen King in The Shining has written a novel about a childhood fears that may seem fantastic but that have a reality in the modern world that we all know, either personally or by reading the newspapers and seeing the television news. This is not a novel to be dismissed as a horror story filled with cheap thrills. This is a novel to make us think about life as it is in the world. A …

…past. A father abuse his children because he was abused by his own father when he was a child. That’s what seemed to happen to Jack Torrance in the novel. He carries the ghost of memory in his head and in his impulses. So when you read the “The Shining” and feel scared, you may be reading a parable about human life. That’s why I think Stephen King’s book is so powerful.