The Shining by Stephen King starts off with Jack Torrance and about a man named Ullman who is interviewing him for a job as a caretaker for the Overlook Hotel. Ullman is telling him everything that he needs to know because he wants Jack’s wife, Wendy, knows what she is gettingThe Shining by Stephen King starts off into and also their son Danny by staying the hotel all winter. Jack tells Ullman that Wendy and his son are very special people. Their son has psychic abilities to see things in the future or in the past.
Stephen King did a very good job when he mentioned how Ullman started showing Jack the floor plans of the hotel. He said how the top floor has been changed several times since World War 2. He also mentions how he wants Jack to put some rat poison because they have heard “rustling noises.” The hotel has 110 rooms, a Presidential Suite, front desk, dining room, Colorado Lounge, and a banquet area. This just starts the book of great because you get a perfect imagination of this creepy scary hotel. The main characters so far are Ullman, Jack, Danny, and Wendy. In chapter 1 we get a little clear idea of each character. We learn that Grady also had a job as the winter caretaker and he ended up loosing his temper. He brought in his wife and his two daughters, and had “cabin fever” which led him to kill himself and his family. One of the most important character in my eyes is Danny. Danny is intelligent, patient, loving, adventuresome, forgiving, and kind. Danny is very special in almost everyone eyes , even Overlook. Stephen King had him like this for a reason to show us the child’s perspective in a deep dark matter. Children usually observe more than adults than adults even suspect. By making Danny "special" he has the mind of the unusual five year old which is very scary. Every time I read I can visualize the pictures most of the time, which is amazing. In The Shining, when Danny is having a flashback with Tony and he takes him into the darkness and deep snow, and Danny starts seeing buildings, and warning signs like " NO SWIMMING. DANGER!" Since Danny can't read, but he is kinda getting the feeling. Then when he gets in a room with mirrors and all he sees is the word "REDRUM" This part was very illustrative, while I was reading it I had a picture in my head imagining how Danny is running from room to room and seeing how everything is either smashed or getting smashed including his mother's record player. The word REDRUM was flashing in the mirrors, and this got my mood changing into feeling terrified. I just wanted to keep reading even if I knew sort of what was going to happen and everything, but I wanted ALL the clear details! And maybe some of my imaginations would change, and things wouldn't go as I imagined, that's why King wrote it like this to keep you reading and going. What I like about the author's style is that he uses descriptive words such as" The hand is dripping blood" or when Tony took Danny to the "hallway with blue carpet"
