The Shining By Stephen King

The Shining, by Stephen King, is about a man and his wife and son staying in a hotel during the winter. The man is named Jack Torrance, who will be the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel from the months of November to April. Jack was notorious for losing his job, mostly since he had a bad temper and drank excessively. Thankfully though, his good buddy Al knew the owner of the Overlook, who needed someone to stay there when everyone else left; so, he was able to get him the job. Jack's son, Danny, has an ability called the shining, which Dick Hallorann told him about, where he is able to read people's minds and predict things that will happen. When he is looking around the hotel, he learns how strong he shines because this causes him to see ghosts
After a few weeks of living in the hotel, poor Danny had been stung by wasps, choked by a woman, and chased by hedge animals. His mother, Wendy, knew her young boy was living in fear. Wendy pleads to Jack how terrible life is in the hotel, and that they must leave immediately, for the sake of their five-year-old son. But by this time, the hotel had gotten into Jack’s brain, convincing him that his family didn’t want him to control the Overlook, so he ruins their only chance of escaping this insane place by throwing a piece of the snowmobile into the snow. As the winter goes by, Jack turns more insane from the hotel brainwashing him. Danny has called for Dick Hallorann, a cook at The Overlook who was staying in Florida during the winter, to come and help them. Because Dick shined too, he sensed that Danny was in trouble; so he got on a plane to save the boy. Wendy and Danny avoid Jack as long as possible, but eventually Wendy leaves Danny to search for him, which is when Jack beats Wendy with a mallet, but then she stabs him in the back, not killing him though. By the end of the chase, Jack is still trying to kill Wendy when he hears the noise of a