Book Report
Title: The Shining
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Horror
Theme: Man Vs. The Overlook Hotel
Setting: The Overlook Hotel, in a remote location on a mountain in Colorado.
Major characters:
Danny Torrance is a five year old boy who has the gift of shinning.
Wendy Torrance is Danny’s mother who is the strongest character, mentally, in this book.
Jack Torrance is Danny’s father who becomes insane toward the end of the story.
Minor characters:
Delbert Grady was the former caretaker that killed his family.
Dick Hallorann is gifted with the shinning. He also saved Wendy and Danny’s life.
Lloyd is Jack’s shinning friend who is the bartender.
Tony is Danny’s shinning friend that shows him things about the hotel.
Plot summary:
Jack Torrance wanted to work on his writing so he accepted the job of watching over the Overlook Hotel for the
winter. He thought that peace and quiet would be just the perfect thing, but it did not turn out that way. Jack and
Wendy fell in love with the hotel at first sight but Danny did not like it at all. Tony, his shinning friend, had shown
him many bad things in the hotel.
For a while, all is well at The Overlook. Jack’s play is coming along nicely for the first time in ages, and the family is
coming back to each other after a lot of heartache. However, The Overlook starts having an effect on Jack. He
The Essay on Told Jack Danny Room Overlook
When Jack Torrance, a recovering alcoholic, was hired to be the caretaker for the Overlook for the winter, he thought it would change the lives of his wife, Wendy, his son, Danny, and his own. He was right. The unusual happenings and sinister forces they faced in the Overlook would change their lives forever. They tormented the Torrance family. The forces first struck Danny. In a daydream, Tony, ...
becomes more and more fascinated in its dark history, and goes back to one of his old habits from his drinking days,
not actually drinking itself, but chewing Excedrin dry for the headaches that he begins to get regularly.
A number of strange incidents occur throughout the story. Jack finds a wasps’ nest while maintaining the roof, uses
an appropriate wasp bomb on it, and puts it in Danny’s room. That night, although Jack had checked there were no
wasps still in the nest, Danny is stung several times, and when Jack manages to put a bowl over the nest, there are
many wasps trapped inside. Then in an almost hypnotic fit after spending too much time going through the hotel’s
papers in the boiler room, Jack smashes the radio, effectively cutting them off from the rest of the world as snow has
fallen heavily, and reaching the nearest town has become impossible except by snowmobile.
In one part of the book Danny comes downstairs with bruises on his neck after venturing into room 217. Wendy
initially suspects Jack of doing it, especially when Jack reports nothing amiss in the room but eventually accepts that
it wasn’t him, and just wants to get Danny out of the hotel. Fortunately, the hotel has a snowmobile, which is in
working order – until, that is, Jack removes the spark plug for reasons he doesn’t even understand himself.
The action really starts when Jack starts seeing things himself. For example the ballroom/bar being filled with people
and alcohol. The people he sees are ghosts of the hotel’s previous victims, such as Delbert Grady, who has become
the bartender, and is more than happy to give Jack a drink or two. He does, however, tell Jack that people are worried
that Jack may not be performing his job quite adequately – at least, the part of his job that involves disciplining his
wife and son. Danny is very important to The Overlook, of course, as he has high psychic potential. Jack doesn’t
grasp this for a long time, not until it is far too late does he realize that he is of relatively little importance himself, he
is just a tool to kill Danny.
After a dangerous journey, involving being nearly killed by the same hedge animals that went after Danny, Dick
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arrives at The Overlook, only to be smashed over the head with a roque mallet almost instantly, by a deranged
creature that was once called Jack, and who now has a knife sticking out of his back. When Jack has gone after
Danny, Wendy finds Hallorann and somehow manages to wake Dick up – apparently he isn’t quite as dead as Jack
thought.
The final confrontation between Jack is gripping in the extreme. Danny manages to coax the real Jack out of the
creature for a few seconds – he tells Danny to run, but Danny doesn’t – after all, The Overlook is everywhere. After
those brief seconds, The Overlook destroys what is
left of Jack’s face with the roque mallet he holds. However, Danny remembers “what his father had forgotten,” just as
Tony had told him he had to – the boiler. Jack hadn’t released the boiler for a long time, and, fortunately for Danny, it
is just about to blow. Danny rushes downstairs, and helps Wendy and Dick get out. Moments later, The Overlook
explodes. Dick manages to get Wendy and Danny down the mountain on the snowmobile he came up on.
Reaction:
I really enjoyed this novel. I kept wanting to read it just to see what would happen next. My favorite part of the book
was the animal hedges. They were very unique very much like the hotel itself. This is the first book I have read by
Steven King, and I would definitely read another one of his books. I would definitely recommend this book to
someone who has a very open mind. This book reminded me of The Haunting of Hill House. In both stories the
houses take over the people.
