88 pages 2 hours read

Stephen King

The Shining

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

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Part 2, Chapters 8-10

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Part 2: “Closing Day”

Part 2, Chapter 8 Summary: “A View of the Overlook”

Wendy worries that the family’s Volkswagen bug won’t make the drive through the mountains. Danny enjoys the mountains and pays attention to a sign that says SIDEWINDER PASS. The town of Sidewinder is the farthest point that snowplows can reach in the winter. Wendy thinks of the Donner Party, a group of 19th century pioneers who became snowbound in the mountains on the way to California, some of whom resorted to cannibalism to survive. She then asks about the Overlook’s pantry.

From a scenic overlook, they see the Overlook across the canyon. Danny holds the guardrail and then turns gray and begins to shake; he tells his parents he is fine. What he doesn’t tell them is that he saw the Overlook in a vision; it is where the figure chased him with a hammer, shouting at him to take his medicine. Tony warned him about the Overlook, which is also where he saw the word REDRUM.

Part 2, Chapter 9 Summary: “Checking It Out”

When they reach the Overlook, Mr. Ullman is warm with Danny. Wendy remembers her honeymoon at the Beekman Tower in New York; it was one of the best times she and Jack ever had. A clerk talks to a belligerent woman—Mrs.

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