The Shining: Summary

Part I of Essay
Stephen King's The Shining is a story about a family, the Torrances who stay at Overlook Hotel for the winter season. The father, Jack Torrance takes his family (wife, Wendy and son, Danny) up to this remote hotel to work as a caretaker for the off season. Jack is a recover ....

Part II of Essay
.... emergency by telling Danny to yell in his mind and he'll come right away. After a few months the Torrances finally settled in and Jack was finally getting in some writing time to work on his novel. Just when everything else was going well, Jack was drifting near an edge. He wondered into the ballroom, up to the bar and ordered a drink as if a bartender would give him a drink, when he looked up he saw that there was a bartender and all. He asked the bartender what he was doing there, when only his family and himself were supposed to be there. ....