Prompt B.

Jack is a five year old boy. He is like most five year olds: he plays games, he has friends, and he has a big imagination. But Jack doesn’t have real friends: his friends are objects are around Room, the games he plays are with his Ma and only Ma, and his big imagination is kept inside the tiny 11x11 room, he and Ma live in. They are held captive, but Jack doesn’t know. Jack was born in Room, and doesn’t know about the world around him. He is only used to Ma and being able to do pretty much everything he wants to in Room. Once Jack and Ma manage to escape, he has to learn how to live like other people. He has to respect the people around him and get used to change. An example of Jack getting used to other people is, “‘Now shush, there’s other people next door, remember, and you’re disturbing them.’” This was Ma talking to Jack, reminding him that there are other people in the building and that he can’t be loud in the middle of the night. This advances the plot because it adds a lot of conflict in the book. Jack doesn’t want change, but he is forced to, which causes him to fight with other people. He even wants to return to Room, which makes him fight with Ma. But as the book goes on Jack gets used to some of the change, and manages to cope with other people and everything around him.

In the Room Article, it talks about some of the choices Emma Donoghue made throughout the book. The writer talks about how she understands why Donoghue made those decisions and how it affected the book in many ways.