For the first quarter, I read The Shining by Stephen King. The novel is fiction and there are a total of 447 pages. The book was a bit boring at the start because it was explaining the characters’ background and it was leading up to the main plot. Jack is the main adult character. He was a teacher who lost his job because he handled a student. Jack was desperate to get work somewhere, and the only thing he could find was at a hotel where a murder occurred. However, this did not stop Jack from taking the job and moving his family in for the winter. Another one of the main characters is a boy named Danny. Danny can see a person who isn’t real, but he allows Danny to see into the future at some points. As a result of this, Danny can get light-headed and pass out. His parents worry about him, but he tries to please them. The last main character in Jack’s wife, Wendy. She is the one who stays sane throughout the book, but she isn’t all that interesting. She worries about Danny and Jack as time goes on, but that’s all she can really do.
As I said, Jack got a job at a hotel for the winter. The man who worked there before him killed his family and himself. This did not faze Jack, but he instead moved in. Eventually, “cabin fever” took control of Jack, which is what is said to have driven the old caretaker mad. Long story short, Jack also went mad and attempted to kill his family.
The point of views shifted from time to time throughout the book from Jack to Danny to Wendy. It was interesting to see how everyone thought of what happened in their own perspective. Danny had had his suspicions from the beginning that something was going to happen, and that it would be bad. Wendy had heard from Danny, but, like any person would, she thought that they were just daydreams. After all, who would believe something a boy dreamed about? Seeing Jack change, though, was the most interesting. You get to view the transition from a regular guy who was a former teacher to an absolute psychopath.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is willing to endure the beginning to see what happens in the end.
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ReplyDeleteSounds like a really interesting story. Has lots of action towards it. By the way you could've just left the whole writing the way it was instead of highlighting it.
ReplyDeleteSeems very suspenseful. I have seen the movie so the book should be a very nice thing to read.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like a good book. I think I might read it one of these days.
ReplyDeleteThis book seems interesting and shows how people can become insane in a matter of time. I like how there is a relationship between Jack and the man who worked before him by having the same psychotic mind to kill their family.
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