Reading The Shining By: Stephen King pgs 105-163

SUMMARY:
    On page 105, Wendy and Jack are in bed. Jack is asleep, and Wendy is thinking about him. When Danny was born Wendy and her mother started talking again, but Wendy doesn't like being around her.Wendy then goes into a flashback. She recollects when Jack is in grad school and his drinking is under control and he gets a job at Stovington Prep. She remembers fighting when Jack dropped Danny on the floor and the time Jack broke danny's arm after being frustrated. Wendy recalls Jack's alcohol problem getting worse and worse, until a miracle happens. Danny tells Jack of the dream he had of him getting into a car accident and Danny stops drinking. Although he stopped drinking Wendy wants to talk to Jack because she is feeling as though she wants a divorce, but she feels pressure because she knows that her mother dissapproved of the wedding in the first place so she would just be conforming to her mother's beliefs. However, she knows that she still loves Jack and definitely loves Danny, so shes being optimistic and hoping that the hotel job will be good for the family.
    The next section is very short and ivolves Danny. Danny wakes up and looks at the clock to find out it is 2 a.m. He was awakened by the sound of a crazy drunken rage, and he looks around for Tony. Danny finds Tony outside at the bus stop and the repeated vision of REDRUM flashes before his eyes.
    In the next scene the Torrances are driving through the mountains on their way to the Overlook Hotel.  Wendy is nervous as she fears they will get stranded and she alludes to a story of a family who had to eat one another to stay alive after being stranded. They continue driving until Jack pulls over at a scenic outlook. Jack points up to the hotel and shows wendy and Wendy says that she thinks the hotel is beautiful. Jack agrees, however, Danny feels uneasy about this new place because he remembers that this is the place in which Tony had warned Danny about and he knew that this was the place where redrum was. They approach the hotel and go into it. Mr. Ullman greets the family, but is preoccupied with the large rush of the last inhabitants trying to check out. Danny looks around as Jack explains the hotel to the family, and Wendy and Jack act as they are loving eachother, but Danny feels very strange and scared of this place.
    RESPONSE:
    I'm not going to lie, I am a little bit creeped out by this book. It is not straight forward scary but it provides its tactics with the use of suspense and the unknown. The movie was not quite as scary because although I viewed all the scenes, I did not feel as though I was experiencing them myself. This book does a great job of pulling the reader into the story and feeling as though they are part of the Torrance family. It also probably does not help that I am reading this book at night time in my room, but who's complaining. I'm thrilled to see how the book portrays the real happenings of the Overlook Hotel compared to the film.