“The Shining” is Stephen King’s imaginative story about a man named Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy, and the son Danny. The opening chapter of the story takes part in 2 different settings. First is the Hotel up in the mountain called The Overlook Hotel and the second is the house of the family. The Shining has a taste of horror, trauma, and darkness inside but still manifest the feel of a loving family that keeps on soothing the heart of the reader. Overlook Hotel in the story has opened for many decades and have gone through the test of time holds many mysteries. From mysteries however, come curiosity that introduce us about reality in life which we might never think and what is happening surround us.
I do really like the story for it’s way of keeping me attracted and getting me hooked as the pages keep on going. Firstly, Jack Torrance is told to be a loving father even though that his past wasn’t really something amusing for me to read. But the fact that he was an alcoholic reminds me of what my father also used to be. Time flies, people change, either it’s going to a good direction or not depending how one would think. Also comes the wife, Wendy who stands loyal to her husband even for what he had done to Danny which in my opinion is unforgivable for hurting your own kid when they haven’t even know what is wrong or right. Jobs could be stressing, and the story tells me as a reader how a real life is when you have become an adult.
” Hotels are superstitious places “, I definitely agree with this. Especially since I come from a foreign country which holds many horror stories about Hotels, Resorts, Hospitals, and many others. We believe that it would be wise to not have thirteenth floor or room thirteen, otherwise bad luck would come and steal away your fortune. Hotel tends to have many mysteries about suicide, murder, and people who just did something awful in one of the room. There is one special hotel in an island called ‘Bali’ in Indonesia where they put one room always locked and keep people away from getting to close to the door. The room is filled with many green color stuffs which believed to be a place for the queen of the sea in that area. Especially Hotels that have been opened for ages, would surely have something that even the people who know don’t want to talk about. But i find it amusing as you know that life is not always filled with joy, there is also sadness, pain, and tears.
All in all, The Shining by Stephen King is really a wonderful story and has so much emotions inside to keep me entertained. It’s really rare for me to finish even one chapter of a book and this book has proven that not all of them are boring . Great author, great novel, and by far the best.
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Great responses here – I like how you both responded to the text as well as brought in your own knowledge and experiences to talk about the book. Two small things – be careful with your sentence structure, which needs a bit of work; and the title says that the author’s name is Stephen Hawking, which isn’t correct (you have it right throughout the rest of the blog).
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