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REDRUM (/ɹidː.ɹʌm/), also stylized as REDЯUM, refers to the word murder, spelled backwards Danny Torrance has a vision of the word REDRUM appearing on a wall, where it then transforms into the word MURDER, directly below the word REDRUM. He is aware of this as he saw this in a vision before arriving at the Overlook Hotel. His first vision is of the hotel, where "a single word appeared in ...
Active Themes. Danny has 11 stings total, but he finally calms down and agrees to sleep in Jack and Wendy ’s bed. Wendy is obviously irritated with Jack for bringing the wasps’ nest into Danny’s room, but Jack could have sworn the wasps were all dead. He’d used the bug bomb and poured the dead wasps out of the nest.
Danny (or Tony) takes his mother's lipstick and writes the word "REDRUM" on the bedroom door. He starts shouting the word so loud that his mom wakes up, and when she takes hold of him, she sees the word "Redrum" in the mirror, which spells "MURDER" Gasp! A thousand times gasp!
We use the word REDRUM throughout this guide to refer to killing and violence. If you really want to understand redrum, try this brief exercise. First, get some red lipstick (like Danny writes with...
The word REDRUM flashes in a mirror. Danny protests, but Tony shows him a bathtub with a hand hanging out of it. The hand is dripping blood. Tony takes Danny to a hallway with blue carpet. A bad "Shape" (4.58) is coming at him now, smelling of "blood and doom" (4.58). It has a huge mallet in its hand and is smashing things with it.
Danny is suddenly falling down the rabbit hole, and he realizes that Tony is falling, too. Danny falls into Jack and Wendy ’s bedroom, which is completely trashed. Tables and chairs are overturned, and in the bathtub, Danny can make out a bloody hand. On the medicine cabinet, the word “REDRUM” flashes, and a big clock under a glass bowl ...
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Tony manages to come through near the end of the novel and tells Danny that he, Tony, is a part of him. Tony is the part of Danny that “knows things,” the part that “shines,” and he is the part of him that knows Jack is the figure with the mallet and that “redrum” is murder. Tony stands in front of Danny for the first time, and it ...
