He's just a five year old after all, whose biggest fear remains the ogre waiting for him at the top of the beanstalk (this was also my greatest fear as a child I couldn't sleep if I could hear my heartbeat, as all I'd hear is "Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum"). When captor Old Nick comes by each night, Jack hides himself in the wardrobe and counts the creaks of the bed "till he makes that gaspy sound and stops."ĭonoghue cleverly lets us make the leap between Jack's innocent observations and the harshness of reality in Room. This limited perspective sets up an important contradiction: for his "Ma," Room is place of terror, but for Jack, it's the only home he knows, where all his imaginary friends live. It's brilliant how Donoghue captures the language of a child, the terrors and observations and weird little obsessions and tantrums. To him, weekly deliveries of supplies to Room are Sunday-treats. All that occupies the room become characters to him, like Room and Wardrobe and Table and Meltedy Spoon.
Jack describes only what he sees and hears, as a child might. Donoghue's writing will place you right there, suffocating you, bewildering you, tormenting you, even though you're seeing through the eyes of a chlid who barely understands what's happening. Room is a tightly written, unpredictable and harrowing account of one young girl who strives to keep her child safe from the monster that locked them both into a single room for seven years. A must-read for all readers who want to brave something different.Brilliant, brilliant book, so clever you almost wish you'd written it yourself, except that you know that you could never have written it so well. I think Room is a good book for teenagers as it deals with some complex issues and also explores the concept of love in dark areas despite the horrifying plot of the story, Room isn't a scary book, but rather, an interesting yet sad perspective of a young boy and his differences to other kids his age, due to being in confinement all his life. Jack doesn't really know what's going on but the reader understands the horror of the situation completely. I found it really clever how Jack tells what he innocently sees whilst the reader realises exactly what's going on, for example: "Old Nick goes to bed and creaks it. Yet Jack can't seem to comprehend the idea of an outside world so when Ma tells him they need to escape, his small world shatters into pieces. But he thinks they are only tales and are totally unreal however, Ma insists that it's all true. Shortly after Jack's fifth birthday, Ma starts to tell Jack about Outside. Throughout the novel, Jack tells us about his daily routine in Room, from "Phys Ed" (running in circles around the shed) to "cooking" lessons (pressing the button on the electric oven) to screaming (for help) at night, standing under the skylight.
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