I need literacy criticism on Stephen King's The Shining for a book
report.  What sites can I go to get the criticisms.  The more the
better.  Thank you.

kathyb,
I remember reading this book -- in my college algebra class.  I
propped the book up inside my algebra book while the teacher asked for
volunteers to do the math problems on the board.

This first web site is more about the movie rather than literary
criticism but does a good job of explaining the changing cultural and
economic times.

The Shining is a movie about one man?s struggle to support a family on
one income in an economy that?s moved beyond his worldview.
Forced to make a living in a culture whose economy has liberated women
to work . . .
This story not only foreshadows Jack?s own spiral into post-war
economic frustration and madness. . .
As Danny?s shining continues, he begins to see the unseen causes and
murderous effects unrestrained capitalism has had on the
twentieth-century family.
http://www.metaphilm.com/philm.php?id=86_0_2_0

Mr. Blackburn?s high school library book review:
This book, like others by Stephen King, examines the possibility of
supernatural beings and events, and their effect on ordinary people
who are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
http://www.icsd.k12.ny.us/highschool/library/blackburn/king2per4.htm

The Shining is an excellent choice for a book report.

Meadow Wolf

With all due respect, "The Shining" is not about the effects of
capitalism and women's liberation on the twentieth-century family.  It
is a spooky story about a kid in an old, isolated hotel who starts to
see scary things.  Consider doing a book report on how King achieves
his effects--how he builds up the terror and suspense so that you are
ready to jump out of your skin by the time REDRUM leaps off the wall
at you.  I read that book more than 20 years ago, and I still remember
it as one of the few that had my pulse racing so bad I was almost
scared to turn the page.  Much better than the movie, despite
Nicholson's blood-chilling eye-rolling and slavering (Nicholson as
Cujo).

Forget social symbolism, which it would be hard to write about with a
straight face as if it were really your own interpretation, and just
read the story, but pay attention to what King does with words and
you'll have a report.

Gosh, I wish we'd had novels like that to write about when I was in
school.  Not that "Silas Marner" wasn't a great story (I loved it,
myself), but Really.

Archae0pteryx