![]() What troubles do Outsides bring? Jack must become familiar with a world that is inateley familiar with the reader. They are isolated away from contemporary society - in a time bubble. What is Room in relation to Outside / TV? TV becomes synonymous with fantasy and fiction to Jack, unlearning this information becomes consequently confusing and the appearance of a mouse magical. ![]() "Was I minus numbers?" Setting is a a metaphor for what The claustrophobic but intense bond of motherhood Is Room Safe? Paradox of it being simultaneously a safe place and comfort to Jack and the prison and hellish location of years of captivity and sexual abuse, perverted into domestic normality by the child's perception. Before that I was four, then three, then two then one, then zero. Yesterday I was four before going to bed in wardrobe but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I'm changed to five, abracadabra. What is the opening section? Today I am five. ![]() What is the effect of the grammatical style? It remains linear and accessible as it only partially departs from convention. It captures his thoughts and observations, as selected by an external writer who captures the child's perspective. ![]() ![]() What does Marco Caracciolo say Jack (and Christopher) are? Strange-enough narrators - Distanced but with recognisable aspects of understandable experience and understanding Does the grammar change? Childish syntax and confusion of tenses, and words yet the punctuation and layout of the novel remains the same - Jack is not the novel's writer. ![]()
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