The Shining

“It’ll shine when it shines.”
-Folk Saying

In the book, The Shining, by Stephen King, King portrays his characters inaccurate and unsatisfying by Danny Torrance’s maturity level for his age, Wendy Torrance’s overly mothering and forgiving, and Jack Torrance’s character being too predictable. Page after page it’s a wonder how the reader seemed to know what each character would do even before it was read. Danny Torrance was particularly different from any small young boys in any other book.
Danny Torrance is first viewed and talked about saying, “…his elbow planted on his thighs and his chin propped in his hands, a five-year-old kid waiting for his daddy”(15). But the ironic part is he doesn’t act like a five-year-old boy at all. Throughout the book the reader learns more and more about the little Danny and the special gift Danny has, the shining. Although many small children have imaginary friends, Danny’s friend, Tony, is much differen...