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Author.
"Room" is the work of Emma Donoghue.

Emma Donoghue was born on October 24, 1969. In Dublin, Ireland and she now lives in
Canada. She is a writer who has studie Englisch and frensh literature. People feel many
different things when Emma Donoghue writes. Some of her most famous books include
"Frog Music," "The Wonder," and "Slammerkin," but "Room" is one of her most famous.

In Room the story is told by a young boy named Jack. He's special because he doesn't know
much about the world outside the room where he and his mom are stuck. Emma
Donoghue's way of telling the story from Jack's eyes makes it interesting and emotional.
Some of the things Emma Donoghue likes to write about include being alone, being strong,
and how people feel inside. These ideas are also in Room because Jack and his mom are
alone, but they try to be strong and make the best of their situation.

context
'Room' was inspired by a true story that Emma Donoghue heard about a lady and her child
being kept in a small room. She was astonished by this tale, and she wondered what it would
be like to be there. She decided to write about it.

She did not make everything up in the book. Emma did some digging at real stories of people
stuck in small places. These real stories helped her make the book seem real by making it
seem like it was real. Parts of real life are put in her book.

Emma Donoghue wrote 'Room' because of a real story, and real-life stories she studied
made the book feel real too. We can imagine how it would be to be stuck in that small room,
like the real people who inspired the story, when we read "Room."

Terms
- The first-person point of view means that the story is told by a character. In "Room," Jack is
the one who is telling us what happens. It helps us understand how Jack thinks and feels.

-Unreliable narrator: This is when the person telling the story might not always tell the truth
or doesn't know everything. In Room Jack is sometimes wrong because he's just a little boy
and that makes the story more interesting

- Internal and external conflict: These are like problems in the story. Internal issues are about
how people feel inside. If they're sad or scared. Things that happen outside are problems like
the room they're stuck in. In "Room" Jack and his mother have problems both inside
themselves and outside and that's what makes the story exciting. Jack and his mother have
problems both inside themselves and outside and that's what makes the story exciting.
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plot

The story begins with Jack, a five-year-old boy, and his mother, Ma, living in a small, locked
room. Jack hasn't ventured outside and Ma reassures him that the outside world is restricted
to television. To stay sane and make the most of their confined life, they have a routine.

Rising action: Jack's age makes Ma even more determined to escape. She teaches Jack about
the world outsite the room and how to handle it. Their chance comes when their captor
loses his job, leading to a daring escape plan.

Climax: Jack escapes from the Room and experiences the outside for the first time. Ma's
been rescued and they're both adjusting to life outside, which's a lot of work and tough.

Falling Action: Jack and Ma deal with the consequences of their years in captivity, including
media attention, therapy, and adjustment to a new way of life.

The resolution: Jack and Ma begin to rebuild their lives outside of Room, but their harrowing
experience forever alters them.

The story revolves around Jack and Ma's imprisonment in Room. Their struggle to survive
and eventually escape drives the plot. It creates tension because they're constantly in
danger and uncertainty, their bond is put to the test as they try to escape from their captors
and adjust to life outside of them.

Characters and Development

A simpler explanation of the characters and their development in "Room" by Emma

Donoghue can be found here.

Jack is a little boy who has never been outside a small room at the beginning of the story. He
believes this room is the center of the universe. Jack learns a lot about the real world after
they leave the room. He starts to understand things he never knew before, like meeting new
people and seeing new places. He starts to understand things he never knew before.
Sometimes he gets scared, but he also becomes braver and smarter. He changes a lot from a
little boy to a big kid.

Jack's mom is tough and works hard to protect and take care of him in the room. She has to
deal with a lot of tough emotions and reminiscences when they finally leave. Outside of the
room, she's a great mom, helping Jack adjust to life. She encounters challenges, but she also
exhibits her resilience.

Jack and Ma's Relationship: At the start, they have a special bond in the room, and it stays
strong even when they leave. They must learn new things together, and their bond gets even
stronger because they rely on each other in new ways.
Jack as a Narrator: Jack is not always sure about things, and he doesn't know much about the
world. This makes him an unreliable narrator. For example, he thinks TV is not real, and he
doesn't understand all the dangers. But this also lets us see the world through a jacks eyes,
which makes the story very interesting and helps us understand how jack sees things.

The setting

The setting in the "Room" matters. Jack and Ma feel trapped and isolated in the small room
where they are kept because they feel trapped and isolated. The room's only connection to
the outside world is the skylight. Their emotions, actions and how they see things are
affected by this limited space. Jack believes that the room is the entire world.

The setting changes dramatically when they escape when they escape. They go from being
held in a cage to being free. As they adjust to the outside world, they face new challenges
and emotions. The world is much bigger as Jack realizes. This change in setting has a huge
impact on the characters experiences, from feeling trapped to discovering the vastness of
the real world.

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themes.

1. In literature, a theme is the main idea or message that the author wants to share through
the story. The book explores it as its central concept.

2. The most important thoughts in a book are linked to the issues in the story, as these issues
are how writers display and discuss their thoughts. The challenges that character face when
confronting difficulties serve to convey the larger themes or ideas about life that the author
intends to convey.

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The notion of freedom is central to the tale. It looks at how different people think about and
feel freedom. The story focuses on Jack and Ma, who were stuck in a small room for seven
years.

Freedom means being in the room for Jack, who believes that the room is everything. He's
never been outside, so he's clueless about freedom. But as the story goes on and they get
out of the room, Jack starts to understand more about what freedom is.

Freedom means getting away from the person who kept them trapped and making a better
life for Jack, for Ma. The notion of freedom is more complicated for her, as she must learn to
live outside after being trapped inside for so long.
The message about freedom in Room is that it can mean different things. It can be about
personal freedom, being able to move around and emotional freedom. The book shows us
that people can change and find hope even when things are hard. We learn that freedom is
not just about being physically free. It's also about having choices, seeing the world, and
feeling better after going through tough times. The book teaches us about how strong
people can be and how freedom can make a big difference, giving people a chance to start
over and find new meaning in life.

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We're told to care about people who had a tough time, like being scared or stuck
somewhere. We can learn from Jack and Ma's approach to issues. It lets us imagine how
they live and feel what they're going through. Being kind and understanding means being
kind and understanding.

Emma wants to teach us that being kind and understanding is important. She wants us to
know that everyone has their own story. We can make people feel better and less alone
when we show empathy for them and try to understand what they're going through.

Being kind and understanding can help us get closer to others, according to the book. It
reminds us to look beyond what we see on the outside and see the person inside, regardless
of what they went through. The boy in the story teaches us that being kind and
understanding bridges the gap. It can give people hope during tough times and help them
through tough times.

The room serves as a strong reminder of how important it is to be nice and understanding,
especially to those who are going through a rough patch.

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https://www.bookishelf.com/book-review-room-by-emma-donoghue/

1. The reviewer liked the strong writing in the first part of the book, but he hinted that the
second part was different. It's possible to interpret what they didn't say.

2. The review emphasized the haunting and touching story, especially the strong bond
between the mother and child.

3. The review pointed out the characters psychological trauma and what happened because
they were held captive. The other characters were mentioned, saying they needed further
development, but they could be intriguing.

4. The deep connection between the mother and child was the best part of the book,
according to the review. It's incredibly moving and affecting.

5. The person who read it agreed with the person who wrote it, praising the stout prose in
the first section and the closeness between mother and child. The emotional impact made
them feel the same way.
6. The review didn't say what they didn't like, but the reader knows some people might not
like the second part and the underdeveloped secondary characters. They might want more
detailed characters.

7. The review didn't make the reader change their mind about the book. It just made them
surer about the strong bond between the mother and child.
Title: Room

Author: Emma Donoghue

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Genre: Contemporary

First Publication: 2010

Language: English

Major Characters: Jack Tenpenny, Ma, Old Nick

Setting Place: An unknown American state

Theme: Isolation, Growing Up, Parenting, Voyeurism and the Media

Narrator: First Person

Book Summary: Room by Emma Donoghue

To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world….

Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room by Emma Donoghue 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.

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.
Book Review: Room by Emma Donoghue
Room by Emma Donoghue opens with Jack announcing that he’s 5 years old today. We learn that
Jack lives in a small room with his mom, and that he’s never been outside of the room. They have
a TV, but he doesn’t think anything on it is real – the only thing that’s real is what’s in the room.
Sometimes an angry man comes and gets in the bed with his mom; during these times Jack hides
in a wardrobe.

Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.

The story is told from Jack’s point of view, and details of why they are there are slowly revealed:
His mother had been abducted off the street years earlier by the angry man, nicknamed Old Nick,
and she has been held in the room since then. To survive, she frequently had to have sleep with
Old Nick, and Jack was born 5 years ago. She created a daily routine to keep her son occupied and
tried to make the situation into a game for him.

The action picks up fairly quickly when his mom plans an escape attempt. I won’t reveal what
happens next, but the story abruptly shifts in tone after halfway through the book. I thought the
first part of Room by Emma Donoghue had the strongest writing, but the second part was
interesting in its consequences for both Jack and his mom.

Everybody’s damaged by something.

The secondary characters, seemed to barely reach the surface as though they were only in my
peripheral vision. They are understanding, and as helpful as possible, but often couldn’t grasp the
nightmare Jack and Ma have survived, while others can’t cope at all, which could have made for
some very interesting characterizations if they had been fleshed out more.

This story is certainly haunting, and the characters did hang around in my head for some time.
The story of Room by Emma Donoghue is moving and touching in the end, and I can’t say how
much I appreciate the author’s portrait of the mother and child bond, which is unshakable, and is
what stands out for me more than anything else.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I

never know how it’s going to be the next minute.

A note on the audiobook: the audiobook (produced by Hachette) is read by a five year old. A
FIVE YEAR OLD. It put everything into such perspective. There was no escaping the narrator, no
escaping the truth that you had a boy who had grown from conception to five-years-old in one
room. His voice was strong and innocent and perceptive. I really liked Jack, and actually being
able to hear him was very powerful. It was also a full-cast audio (which means every character has
a different voice) which made the listening experience really brilliant.