The Shining by Stephen King
King, Stephen. The Shining. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977. Print.
Jack Torrance after losing his job because of his temper and alcoholism, decides to take up a care taking position over the winter at the Overlook Hotel, with his wife Wendy and his son Danny. Danny Torrance is a young boy with a strange gift of seeing things and events in the future and beyond normal context. When arriving at the hotel Danny meets the hotel cook Dick Hallorman who tells him that he also shares his gift and calls it the shining. He warns Danny of things in the hotel and tells him to call him if he needs him. As soon as they settle into the hotel, Jack begins losing his mind and experiencing strange things in the hotel like seeing ghosts. Danny is aware of the dangerous things in the hotel, but does not let the bad things harm him or get into his mind to manipulate his thoughts, but he notices his fathers new dangerous personality which is influenced by the horrible things in the hotel. One night Jack loses his mind and something tells him to kill his family, Danny and Wendy escape with the help of Hallorman, this leads to him ultimately getting killed after the boiler explodes.
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- Qualitative Progressive Form- qualities are inferred and felt and they evoke moods, a given mood allows us to enter another mood that might follow.
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- Symbolic Code- generates unresolvable oppositions
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- Repetitive Form- consistent maintaining of new principles under new guise