The Shining Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 57, Exit Summary

Chapter 57, Exit Summary

As the hotel begins to burn, Danny and Hallorann help Wendy onto the snowmobile and Hallorann remembers there are blankets in the equipment shed. As they pass the Overlook, Hallorann sees a black figure in the window of the Presidential Suite, and frighteningly believes it looks like a horde of wasps. As the wind blows, it disappears.

Reaching the shed, Hallorann tells Danny to stay behind with his mother and enters the shed, noticing the roque mallets. Thoughts of blood and death begin to fill his mind and he thinks to himself that everything is the boy's fault. Picking up a mallet, he hears Danny screaming for him outside, and is violently angry. As he turns to exit the shed, mallet raised, he suddenly stops as voices cry out in his head to kill the boy and his mother. Hallorann throws the mallet and runs to the Torrance family, wrapping...
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