The Shining 4

Well this week has been pretty eventful in the book; Jack has been called out on his lying about seeing things in the hotel. Well Danny this time wandered out into the hedges just as his dad did, like father like son. When Danny went out he began to play on the swing set and also went down the slide a few times then he started to hear things and if I were Danny I would have just left and been done with it but instead he just thinks to himself it isn’t real, yea that worked real well the last time when the dead old lady grabbed your throat so Danny just stays in the play ground.  Then he hears the noises again and looks over to the hedges which were now uncovered and bare with no trace of snow on top, event though they had just been covered only two minutes ago when Danny first came into the play ground . He probably should have listened to Mr. Halloran when he said stay away from room 217 and the play ground but instead he just goes right on ahead and chooses to do the opposite of what anyone says. Why he does this I have know idea, but as Danny keeps looking away and looking back he notices the lions and the dog seem to be moving closer and closer to Danny as if stalking him as their prey so he begins to run. Every time he looked back the topiary’s were closer to him, at this point I would probably be freaking out a lot! Then Danny runs up to the porch then he hears what sounds like branches breaking and he all of a sudden felt pain in his leg! When his parents came running down they were freaking out, but when Danny told them what happened Jack seemed to be the one in denial saying that Danny was lying and he took Danny to the window too look out into the topiary’s but there they stood covered in snow not moved a bit. Funny thing is that Jack saw with his own eyes and he was trying to play it off like nothing happened. Maybe trying to keep it a secret from his own mind not to go entirely insane which I think might have already happened. But when Danny said “Dad you saw them with your own eyes” Jack slapped Danny across the face!! Wendy then yelled “you bastard, how dare you hit him!” This came to a real surprise to me because I thought that after Jack had broken Danny’s arm when he was drinking he had promised never to hurt Danny again, right there and then he had broken his promise he had held so dear. This I could imagine pissed off Wendy beyond belief. She then ran off with Danny in her arms and had taken him to his room to tuck him in. When Jack had realized what he had done he immediately apologized to Danny and Wendy not knowing what came over him to do such a terrible thing to his own flesh and blood. Maybe the hotel is making Jack’s mind weak so it can manipulate him the way it wants him to, such as kill Danny and Wendy that way they can stay at the Overlook Hotel forever.