Closing day - Getting to know The Overlook

At this part of the novel (chapters 6-11) we are introduced to the place where everything will suffer a turn of events, if we can say it, dark and condemned style. Jack doesn't know it yet, but the place will affect him like he can't imagine. 

Where we are in the book, Jack does not interact much with the other characters, only to joke around or say silly things to Winnifred; but we get to know Dick Hallorann, the cook of The Overlook, which will develop a special friendship with Danny, because they share "The Shining", the ability to see or hear things beyond the physical world, even another one's thoughts.

Meanwhile, Wendy keeps doubting about the divorce, but she convinces herself of staying with Jack, and start over -after the incidents- at the hotel, enjoying the summoned vacations that according to her, will change everything for good in her marriage.
Jack is optimistic, he wants to do good, but the monster inside him is about to break loose.. the snow, the drought, the silence, and the hotel's voice itself will release the tenebrosity of his mind.