Stanley Kubrick's The Shining does not do justice to Stephen King's novel, because it changes the focus of the story from Danny's ability to shine to Jack's evilness, the Overlook Hotel looked much less creepier than it was perceived as in the text and it revisions the whole ending of the story. This movie made it clear there was another author in the making of the story and that is the director. The main ideas were clearly modified in the movie by the director. The name of the novel is The Shining. The reason to the name is because of Jack and Wendy's son Danny has the ability to shine. Throughout the novel it focuses on his ability to shine and what it is to be able to shine. They had many chapters from his point of view and what he was