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Room is a great literary classic! A unique novel about a five year old boy, Jack, whose world fits into an eleven-foot square garden shed. Room is where he was born and where he has lived all his life, with his "Ma", and the story, narrated from young Jack's perspective, explores the life of a child who has never felt sunlight, never smelled fresh air and of course, has never met anyone other than him and his mother – and Old Nick, the man responsible for abducting Ma and continually raping her.

But as Jack grows older, almost reaching the wise age of six, his increasing curiosity about Room and whether there really is an outside world leaves his Ma realising that sooner or later, they'll need to escape the imprisonment they have been confined to.

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.

Shortly after Jack's fifth birthday, Ma starts to tell Jack about Outside. But he thinks they are only tales and are totally unreal; however, Ma insists that it's all true. 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.

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. Tonight it's 217 times". Jack doesn't really know what's going on but the reader understands the horror of the situation completely.

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. A must-read for all readers who want to brave something different.

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To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world.... Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience - and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work. Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.

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When she spits the second time it's my go with Toothbrush, I scrub each my teeth all the way around. Ma's spit in Sink doesn't look a bit like me, mine doesn't either. I wash them away and make a vampire smile. "Argh." Ma covers her eyes. "Your teeth are so clean, they're dazzling me." Her ones are pretty rotted because she forgetted to brush them, she's sorry and she doesn't forget anymore but they're still rotted. I flat the chairs and put them beside Door against Clothes Horse. He always grumbles and says there's no room but there's plenty if he stands up really straight. I can fold up flat too but not quite as flat because of my muscles, from being alive. Door's made of shiny magic metal, he goes beep beep after nine when I'm meant to be switched off in Wardrobe. God's yellow face isn't coming in today, Ma says he's having trouble squeezing through the snow. "What snow?" "See," she says, pointing up. There's a little bit of light at Skylight's top,...

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• Why do you think the entire book is told in Jack’s voice? Do you think it is effective?
• What are some of the ways in which Jack’s development has been stunted by growing up in Room? How has he benefited?
• If you were Ma, what would you miss most about the outside world?
• What would you do differently if you were Jack’s parent? Would you tell Jack about the outside world from the start?
• If Ma had never given birth to Jack, what would her situation in Room be like?
• What would you ask for, for Sundaytreat, if you were Jack? If you were Ma?
• Describe the dynamic between Old Nick and Ma. Why does the author choose not to tell us Old Nick’s story?
• What does joining the outside world do to Jack? To ...
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When I finished this brilliant novel, besides being as locked into its story and world as Jack and Ma were in Room, I had no idea how I would review it. I was convinced there was nothing I could say about it without the entire review being one big spoiler. For me, what made Room so great was that I never knew from page to page what would happen next. Finding out what happens next made it one of the best thrillers I have ever read. I want every reader to experience that... By filtering [ Room's ] themes through the eyes and mind of a child, Donoghue lays on the patina of a fairy tale. She also illustrates the power of mothering and the heroism of ordinary people. These are just some of the ways we triumph over a world full of terrors... continued

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Emma Donoghue’s Room is a 2010 novel about a boy named Jack who lives in a single room with his mother, Ma . Room is a crime thriller novel that explores themes of trauma, innocence, and adaptability through the eyes of five-year-old narrator, Jack. Room has received many awards, including the ALA Alex Award, the Indies Choice Book Award for Fiction, and The New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year award. Room was adapted to a screenplay, which was released in 2015.

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Jack is a five-year-old boy who has lived his entire life with his mother, Ma, inside Room—a single-room dwelling with a kitchen area, plumbing, and a bed. Jack does not know anyone else in the world except Old Nick , who visits Room through the beeping padlocked door and rapes Ma regularly—though Jack does not understand this and refers to it as “squeak[ing]” the bed.

Jack and Ma fill their days with education, activities, mealtimes, and hygiene practices. They have a weekday activity called Scream, where they get close to the skylight—Room’s only window—and scream, then wait and listen. Jack also gets to watch a little television each day. Ma says everything on television is fake. Jack believes the world outside of Room is outer space.

Old Nick does not visit the night of Jack’s fifth birthday, so Jack sleeps in bed with Ma. When Old Nick does visit, Jack must sleep in the wardrobe. He has only ever seen Old Nick through the slats in the wardrobe doors because Ma does not want Old Nick looking at Jack. Old Nick brings a remote-controlled Jeep as a gift. Ma does not like Old Nick giving gifts to Jack, but Jack loves it. The next night, while Old Nick is visiting, Jack activates the Jeep and it rolls off the shelf onto Old Nick’s head. He wakes up and attacks Ma, thinking she is attacking him.

The next morning, Ma’s neck is bruised, and when they do Scream, Ma screams louder and longer than ever. During TV time, Jack notices the painkillers in a commercial are the same ones Old Nick brings Ma for her toothaches. Ma admits some things on television are real. She tells Jack about the Outside. Jack does not believe it at first, but the more stories Ma tells, the more Jack realizes she is not tricking him.

Jack overhears Old Nick and Ma talking. Old Nick has been jobless for six months and he is running out of money. Ma is concerned. Old Nick notices Jack through the slats in the wardrobe doors and tries to coax him out with a lollipop. Jack stays put. After Old Nick rapes Ma, Jack sneaks out to find the lollipop, waking Old Nick. When Old Nick tries to interact with Jack, Ma screams.

The next morning, Old Nick cuts the power to punish Ma for screaming, and Room gets very cold. Ma tells Jack about her family outside of Room. Old Nick abducted her when she was 19 by tricking her into helping him find his dog. Jack realizes Old Nick is a bad guy. They go without power for a few more days.

The morning after the power returns, Jack wakes to a new grocery delivery from Old Nick. Jack thinks everything is fine now, but Ma says it is time to plan an escape. They pretend Jack has a severe stomach bug, hoping Old Nick will take Jack to the hospital, where Jack will alert the doctors that he and Ma need help. Old Nick believes Jack has been sick, but says he will bring medication tomorrow. Jack thinks their plan failed, but Ma explains Plan B.

Now Jack is to pretend to be dead. Ma wants to roll him up in the rug and have Old Nick take Jack to bury him. Jack will escape from the rug in the bed of Old Nick’s truck, jump out, and find help. Jack is scared, but Ma insists they must do this, and Jack will be her hero. Jack has a tooth that fell out of Ma’s mouth. He stores it in his sock before Ma rolls him up in the rug.

When Old Nick arrives, Ma screams at him and blames him for Jack’s death. Old Nick is apologetic, and he promises to bury Jack far away from the house. He takes Jack away in his truck bed. Jack struggles to get out of the rug, and when he does, Old Nick spots him. Jack jumps out and finds a man walking a dog. The man questions Jack. Old Nick grabs Jack and tries to take him away. The man calls police, and Old Nick drops Jack and runs, driving off quickly. When the police arrive, Jack struggles to talk, but he manages to help them find the house. Jack is happy to be reunited with Ma but wants to go back to Room to sleep.

Ma gives her statement to the police before she and Jack are sent to a psychiatric hospital to stay temporarily. Jack is amazed at all the things outside of Room. At the hospital, a news story about Ma and Jack is already running on television, featuring images of them walking into the precinct. The doctors examine Ma to collect evidence.

Over the next few days, Jack slowly adjusts his worldview while Ma works with doctors to process her trauma. Jack and Ma reunite with Ma’s mom, Grandma , and brother, Paul, who is now married with a toddler. Jack experiences new things like going outside. He has bad dreams at night.

Ma agrees to a television interview, but Jack will not let her go without him. Their lawyer stresses that Jack is not to be recorded on camera, but when Ma breaks down at the reporter’s line of questioning regarding the decisions Ma made for Jack, Jack rushes up to hug her.

The next day, Ma is not well, so Paul and his wife, Deana, take Jack to the mall with their daughter. Jack gets a new backpack. He is fascinated with everything he sees. He steals a book, thinking it is his same copy from Room. Paul pays the store owner after he confronts them about Jack’s theft.

When they get back to the psychiatric hospital, Jack discovers Ma in an unresponsive state, having taken an overdose of pills—though Jack does not understand this. Jack goes to stay with Grandma and his step-grandpa, Steppa. Ma stays in the clinic, and Jack does not understand why he cannot join her.

At Grandma’s, Jack faces many new challenges. Grandma takes Jack to the park, but he is scared to play with other kids, so they go again early in the morning so Jack can enjoy the equipment by himself. Jack keeps Ma’s old rotten tooth in his mouth when he is distressed.

When Ma is released, she and Jack move into an independent living facility. Jack wishes to see Room again. Ma does not want to, but she agrees to go with Jack. The police escort them there. Ma throws up in Old Nick’s backyard. When Jack enters Room, he says goodbye to all his old, personified friends. Ma cries, and they leave.

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Book to Screen: ‘Room’ Screenwriter Makes All the Right Changes to Her Own Novel

Perri breaks down how closely Emma Donoghue’s big screen adaptation sticks to her own source material.

Emma Donoghue scored loads of acclaim and accolades after Room was published in late 2010 and now Donoghue, director Lenny Abrahamson and stars Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay are receiving similar praise for their film adaptation.

Larson plays Ma and Tremblay steps in as her five-year-old son Jack. They live in “Room” and as far as Jack knows, that’s all that exists. It’s a windowless 10-by-10-foot space, but Ma has managed to build a life for them there, teaching Jack, playing with him and doing whatever it takes to keep him happy, healthy and safe. However, eventually the time comes when Ma fears that she can no longer guarantee Jack’s well-being, so she devises a plan to break out, escape their captor and return to the real world.

Donoghue wrote a remarkable book, but did she achieve the same with a screenplay? Check out some of the major changes she made and how well they played.

Warning: There are MAJOR spoilers in this article for Room the movie and Room the book.

There’s Minimal Narration

There are a number of reasons why Room is an especially challenging book to adapt, but the one that I suspect could have sunk the big screen rendition is how Donoghue approached the narration. The entire novel is narrated by Jack, which is a downright brilliant decision. Prior to his fifth birthday, Ma basically constructs and lives in Jack’s world. Everything has a proper name - Rug, Wardrobe, Door, etc. - and they operate on a schedule that will keep him as healthy and happy as possible. However, little does he know, certain parts of his daily routine are there to better their chances of going home. It’s a shocking, warped way of living, but what makes Room such a thoughtful, poignant piece of work is how Donoghue presents it all. Rather than throw all the details at you via a character who is well aware of what she’s lost, Jack’s narration lets you view the situation from a completely fresh standpoint, adding a number of unique, powerful layers to the story. Room isn’t just about getting out and getting home. It’s about how the experience changed them and there’s no purer way to convey that than via the perspective of a child.

There was no way Jack could break down each and every moment of Room the movie. It’s tough enough to naturally incorporate just the slightest bit of voiceover, a whole movie’s worth would have felt forced and grown tiresome. However, it also seemed highly unlikely that Abrahamson and his team would be able to find a young actor who’s capable of conveying all of the thoughts and emotions that Jack expresses in the book, but they certainly did the impossible in that department because Tremblay is a revelation. He’s incredibly natural and charismatic, has a mesmerizing on screen presence and loads of chemistry with Larson. Tremblay definitely did his job exceptionally well and then Abrahamson, cinematopgraher Danny Cohen and editor Nathan Nugent took it to another level. They knew exactly how to shoot Tremblay’s performance and just the right moments to cut to him. Just take a look at this clip from the film that A24 released. Abrahamson totally could have held on Larson after she says, “I don’t know what’s wrong with me,” but instead he switches to a shot of Tremblay during which you can practically see the wheels in his head turning.

There Are Fewer Supporting Characters

After the escape, Jack and Ma strike up/rekindle relationships with a number of key supporting characters. As we see in the film, there’s Grandma and Leo (who’s affectionately called Steppa in the book, a play on the title step grandpa), but the novel also has Dr. Clay, Noreen, Paul, Deanna and Bronwyn.

Paul is Ma’s brother, Deanna is his wife and Bronwyn is their young daughter. I always liked their involvement in the book for one specific reason—the trip to the mall. It’s got this wonderful, darkly comedic vibe to it that highlights how drastically different Jack’s upbringing was from Bronwyn’s. Bronwyn is essentially a spoiled brat who whines to get her way whereas Jack is an eloquent five-year-old who doesn’t understand the most basic things about the way life on the outside works, like the need to pay for things. The more Jack interacts with Paul, Deanna and Bronwyn, the more he experiences social norms and it’s interesting to watch him process them.

Sadly we don’t get this in the film, but what could have been their screen time is wisely given to Grandma and Leo instead. Room is an intense, heart wrenching film and while Grandma and Leo don’t step in and simply save the day, both Joan Allen and Tom McCamus bring a much needed sense of warmth and security to the situation. Plus, the part with Leo’s dog Sheamus might be the most joyful scene I’ve seen all year.

As for Dr. Clay and Noreen, due to the way Donoghue structured the big screen version of the story, they just become unnecessary. In the book, we spend much more time at the Cumberland Clinic where Ma and Jack receive medical attention until they’re ready to live on their own. While it’s interesting to see a doctor’s perspective on what they went through and how to rehabilitate them, Room clocks in at 118 minutes. There would have been no way to do Dr. Clay and Noreen justice while also making Grandma and Leo such strong characters.

It Could Have Been Even Tougher to Watch

You think Jack and Joy’s story was a tough watch on screen? Donoghue had many more gruesome, heartbreaking details in the book. The omission that stands out most is Ma’s stillbirth before she had Jack. There’s no doubt that Larson and Tremblay could have worked wonders with that scene and I think the information could have helped put what life was like for Ma and Old Nick pre-Jack into perspective, but the film certainly isn’t any less profound without it.

Another detail from the book that’s stuck with me more than most is Jack’s obsession with Bad Tooth, Ma’s rotten tooth that finally falls out after eating a bagel in Room. Jack keeps it and has a habit of sucking on it throughout the rest of the book. It’s a cringeworthy detail that you ultimately grow attached to because Jack uses it as a security blank of sorts when he and Ma are separated. Despite the fact that Tooth grew on me quite a bit in text, seeing a kid suck on a rotten tooth on screen might have actually taken me out of the story. And the same goes for the breastfeeding as well. In the book, Ma is constantly breastfeeding Jack and when she isn’t, he’s thinking about it. It’s a vital detail that says a lot about what they had to do to survive in Room and how drastic of an adjustment it is to fit in in the real world, but again, seeing it is very different from reading it.

Closing Thoughts

Donoghue absolutely nailed this adaptation. Room is a prime example of someone taking stellar source material and making the necessary changes to ensure that it plays well, if not better, in a different format. Hopefully you’ve read and seen Room if you’ve hit this point of the article, but what I love so much about Room the movie is how well it complements the book. For those who’ve read the book but haven’t seen the movie, being able to actually see everything play out on screen is wildly moving, and if you’ve seen the movie but haven’t read the book, getting the additional details from the source material will wind up enriching the film.

Book Review: The Room

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Posted December 22, 2015

I just completed reading the 2013 book, Room , by Emma Donoghue. For anyone who hasn’t read the book or seen the movie, it is written from the perspective of a five-year-old boy who—at the time the book opens—has spent his whole life in an 11 x 11 room with his mother. The mother and son are captives of an abductor who took the mother when she was 16 years old and kept her for seven years inside the room which was actually a shed on his property.

What makes the book so powerful is that it truly captures the world from the perspective of a child and what the story shows so clearly is that what adults think and believe and know about what is best for children is not always consistent with what children like or want.

From the adult point of view, the child was being abused and damaged because of his constrained life, but from his point of view he was happy as long as he had the love and attention of his mother. Thus, once the mother and son escaped/were rescued (I won’t give away the plot), the child was actually traumatized by the experience. Adults acted as if he was finally safe now that he was removed from his abduction situation, but for the first time in his life he actually felt unsafe. This is not to say that he should have been left where he was, only that when mental health professionals work with abducted and alienated children it is essential to recognize that the child’s experience may be very different than what we as adults and professionals think it should be.

This is consistent with what we know about abused children who are generally not grateful for being “rescued” from the abuser, especially at first. Working with children requires knowing what is best for them but also knowing what feels right to them and understanding that the two might not be the same. Being sensitive to the perspective of the child victim is an essential part of the healing process.

Amy J.L. Baker, Ph.D. , is an author and the director of research at the Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection at the New York Foundling.

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Our recommended books this week include three very different memoirs. In “Grief Is for People,” Sloane Crosley pays tribute to a lost friend and mentor; in “Replay,” the video-game designer Jordan Mechner presents a graphic family memoir of three generations; and in “What Have We Here?” the actor Billy Dee Williams looks back at his life in Hollywood and beyond.

Also up this week: a history of the shipping companies that helped Jewish refugees flee Europe before World War I and a humane portrait of people who ended up more or less alone at death, their bodies unclaimed in a Los Angeles morgue. In fiction we recommend a posthumous story collection by a writer who died on the cusp of success, along with a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller and a big supernatural novel from a writer previously celebrated for her short fiction. Happy reading. — Gregory Cowles

WHAT HAPPENED TO NINA? Dervla McTiernan

Despite its title, this disturbing, enthralling thriller is less concerned with what happened to 20-year-old Nina, who vanished while spending the weekend with her controlling boyfriend, than it is with how the couple’s parents — all broken, terrified and desperate in their own ways — respond to the exigencies of the moment.

“Almost painfully gripping. … The last scene will make your blood run cold.”

From Sarah Lyall’s thrillers column

Morrow | $27

THE UNCLAIMED: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans

The sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans spent some 10 years studying the phenomenon of the unclaimed dead in America — and, specifically, Los Angeles. What sounds like a grim undertaking has resulted in this moving project, in which they focus on not just the deaths but the lives of four people. The end result is sobering, certainly, but important, readable and deeply humane.

“A work of grace. … Both cleareyed and disturbing, yet pulsing with empathy.”

From Dan Barry’s review

Crown | $30

THE BOOK OF LOVE Kelly Link

Three teenagers are brought back from the dead in Link’s first novel, which is set in a coastal New England town full of secrets and supernatural entities. The magic-wielding band teacher who revived them gives the kids a series of tasks to stay alive, but powerful forces conspire to thwart them.

“It’s profoundly beautiful, provokes intense emotion, offers up what feel like rooted, incontrovertible truths.”

From Amal El-Mohtar’s review

Random House | $31

GRIEF IS FOR PEOPLE Sloane Crosley

Crosley is known for her humor, but her new memoir tackles grief. The book follows the author as she works to process the loss of her friend, mentor and former boss, Russell Perreault, who died by suicide.

“The book is less than 200 pages, but the weight of suicide as a subject, paired with Crosley’s exceptional ability to write juicy conversation, prevents it from being the kind of slim volume one flies through and forgets.”

From Ashley C. Ford’s review

MCDxFSG | $27

NEIGHBORS AND OTHER STORIES Diane Oliver

This deceptively powerful posthumous collection by a writer who died at 22 follows the everyday routines of Black families as they negotiate separate but equal Jim Crow strictures, only to discover uglier truths.

“Like finding hunks of gold bullion buried in your backyard. … Belatedly bids a full-throated hello.”

From Alexandra Jacobs’s review

Grove | $27

WHAT HAVE WE HERE? Portraits of a Life Billy Dee Williams

In this effortlessly charming memoir, the 86-year-old actor traces his path from a Harlem childhood to the “Star Wars” universe, while lamenting the roles that never came his way.

“He writes with clarity and intimacy, revealing the person behind the persona. And he doesn’t scrimp on the dirty details.”

From Maya S. Cade’s review

Knopf | $32

THE LAST SHIPS FROM HAMBURG: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I Steven Ujifusa

Ujifusa’s history describes the early-20th-century shipping interests that made a profit helping millions of impoverished Jews flee violence in Eastern Europe for safe harbor in America before the U.S. Congress passed laws restricting immigration.

“Thoroughly researched and beautifully written. … Truth as old as the Republic itself.”

From David Nasaw’s review

Dutton | $35

REPLAY: Memoir of an Uprooted Family Jordan Mechner

The famed video-game designer (“Prince of Persia”) pivots to personal history in this ambitious but intimate graphic novel. In it, he elegantly interweaves themes of memory and exile with family lore from three generations: a grandfather who fought in World War I; a father who fled Nazi persecution; and his own path as a globe-trotting, game-creating polymath.

“The binding theme is statelessness — imposed by chance, antisemitism and personal ambition — but memoirs are about memory, and so it is also a book about the subtleties and biases of recollection.”

From Sam Thielman’s graphics column

First Second | $29.99

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