Danny’s awareness is pretty stellar for a 5-6 year old kid, but his awareness around his parents and the issues they face are front and center.
When we meet him, he’s asking his mom if she wants to go. Later on, we see him prod his own consciousness deeper — and finds out.
In No.41, he asks his dad point blank if he’d ever hurt him or his mom, in front of the space in which Jack very much will try.
This theme is related to Danny being around spaces where violence will occur.
In this image · No.6
Sound Reflection as Structure
Having the sound link from Danny in the bathroom to Wendy at the sink creates the semiotic connection in sound. Kubrick has Danny in the bathroom in Image 129, with his hands unseen. Water is heard running and splashing. When we go to Image 130, Wendy is doing the dishes and running water is shown and heard.
Kubrick makes this choice to show other reflections of Danny’s awareness of his parents’ actions across the film, sometimes spatially and therefore thematically, and sometimes literally within the same space but shown symbolically. See: Proximity; Danny’s Awareness of Problems Caused by Parents.