First Real Blog about My First Real Book in My First Actual Independent Reading for my SECOND Time Having Mrs. Clapp as an English Teacher.

I know, I know. After that amzing title, I bet you can't wait to read what comes next, right? Okay so this is my first one, I'm a good deal through the book.
Some background, I'm reading, King's "The Shining" It's about a family who goes out to stay in this deserted hotel called the overlook. Now, it's histroy is pretty dirty, consiting of suicide and mafia murders and what not....
So the little boy, Danny, who is 5 has this shining, he can read minds, sense feelings, see messages from the dead, and lot's of other paranormal ongoing's. The hotel is full of them. Danny has the shining real bad, his senses are through the roof, and there is little that he doesn't pick up on. Which brings us to my post. Something was talked about in English class today that really got my mind rolling, it's an idea we bring up often in our class analysis, and I think is important in this novel, innocence, that is the innocence of Danny and how he loses it. Well I haven't gotten to that part yet.
Anyway, Danny, only being five, has a lot more stuff being thrown at him than he understands, already he has had to worry about wheter or not his parents would get divorced, if his father would go back to drinking, and how they'd make it through alive to the next winter. Yet through al of this he has managed to keep that child-like innocence of most five year olds though he has been subjected to things most his age would never understand, yet he has an imaginary friend, Tony. He likes to spend time with his parents and especailly idealizes his father. This innocence, however is slowly being broken down by thier stay at the overlook. The fact that King makes this major character, not but a little boy is meant to bring a certain impact to the stroy. Being that he is so young, few people believe in the things he is saying or seeing and is simply putting it off as daydreams. And so too, is the reader having to doubt, how much can we believe. To what point can we believe that Danny is telling the truth, or that we are supposed to take everything he is seeing at face value. He is unexperienced in the ways of the world so at first we don't have any reason to doubt him, but at this point, I think there may even be stuff happening, that Danny is hiding. His innocence brings to the stroy an auroa of foreshadowing. often the theme of booko scontain the innocene of somethign being broken down, and that air of innocence is lost forever.