SHINING
...ain characters (JACK, Wendy, Danny, and the Overlook) is the four I will discuss. - Torrance, Danny, Danny Torrance is Jack and Wendy's son, who is just 5 at the start of the book (in fact all the way through the book until the epilogue). Danny is a very bright boy, but he has an "invisible friend" called Tony, who tells him things, whether the car will break down or not etc... You can say small cases of precognition. He could read peoples minds or thoughts, and he was wanted by the Overlook. Danny was a boy who was abused by his father, mentally and physically. He suffered a broken arm, and was constantly screamed at by his father. Danny loved his father more than his mother, and didn’t want his family to go though a divorce. Danny could be considered a genius, understanding terms like divorce at an early age. He doesn’t display a moral character since he is only 5 years old. Danny Torrance is to me just a young boy who is gifted with the Shine. The (shine) Shining, is essentially a telepathic talent, which seems to be the ultimate objective of the collective evil which infests the hotel. Although he can foresee certain critical events, he seems largely unable to interpret them correctly (REDRUM), and, with the exception of his final confrontation with the hotel in the form of his transformed father, he is able to do little to affect their outcome. - (Jack) Danny's father, failed writer and alcoholic who succumb to the evil in the Overlook Hotel. Jack is a writer who can’t wait for the peace and quiet as well as the opportunity to start over. Former teacher turned writer Jack Torrance interviews for a job at the Overlook Hotel in the mountains of Boulder Colorado. The Overlook closes for five months out of the year and is in need of a live-in caretaker who will make repairs and keep the boiler running during the long winter. Jack is hungry for an opportunity that will allow him the peace, and isolation to work on his writing, and, a last chance to set his life in order after being fired for hitting George. However, Jack’s who is prone to fits of violence, become more evil while living the Overlook. 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 becomes more and more fascinated in its dark history, and goes back to one of his old habits from his drinking. I couldn't help but feel sorry for him as the hotel slowly destroyed him. Jack is a man ridden by guilt and failure in his roles of husband, father, teacher, and aspiring author. Most of Jacks problems come from the wounds suffered from his alcoholic and violent father. - The Overlook Hotel, and the force which inhabits and animates the place. Through a host of manifestations, in word and in action, it gradually assumes the form of a vast and threatening force. After painting a very attractive portrait of life at the Overlook, Ullman finally breaks down and reveals some of the hotel’s less distinguished history. Apparently in 1970, the Hotel’s former caretaker Charles Grady went insane and butchered his family (Two little girls and his wife) before taking his own life. Jack is impressed by the story but it doesn’t quell his desire to get the job. King gives the Overlook Hotel a personality, and the power to act, giving the house ill will and malevolent impulses. The Overlook past includes, but is not limited to suicides, orgies, and, Murder! It is essentially a place where evil has thrived, and therefore has seeped into the very foundation of the building. When it can’t get Danny, it talks over Jacks mind, and allows him to do it works of evil. - Wendy, Danny's mother, and Jacks’ wife, Wendy is a timid and faithfully wife, trying to keep her marriage and family together. Her mother kicked her out of home in 1970 after her parents divorced. Her father, a traveling salesman, died of a heart attack 6 months after her wedding. Wendy is a basically good-hearted woman who yearns to have a great family and to keep it together. She is a worrier, but l...