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Room

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Room	comment	Jack is five years old and lives with his ma in a single, eleven by eleven foot Room. He has lived there all his life, ever since he was born. Ma has lived there for seven years, ever since she was taken here by Old Nick. He has never been outside, seen any more of the sky than the slit of blue that comes through Skylight, or met any human being besides his Ma and Old Nick, who comes in at night to bring food and talk to Ma.Jack is happy in Room, watching the imaginary people on television, playing with his Ma and listening to her stories. He thinks he can live in Room forever... but he can't.Room is a 2010 novel by Emma Donoghue. She reports that she decided to write the book after learning of the horrific real-life Fritzl case. In 2015, the book was adapted into a film, with Donoghue penning the screenplay, and Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay in the roles of Ma and Jack. The film's trailer can be seen here.Not to be confused with The Room (2003). In fact, you couldn't find two more diametrically opposite films, though coincidentally both had a budget of $6 million. Also not to be confused with the lesser know 2019 film or Harold Pinter's The Room, either.
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Room / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Room / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: The puffy-haired woman who sits on the red couch and talks to people who have interesting stories is likely meant to be Oprah Winfrey. In the book, the interview taping is a sendup of the kind of smarmy, Lifetime Movie of the Week tropes (like "stronger at the broken places") Oprah might use. Ma's irritated at having to constantly correct her, and she's frustrated because Ma isn't letting her control the narrative according to customary stereotypes. Then Ma lets loose about the horrors she's been finding on line — slavery, solitary confinement in prisons, child labor — and the interviewer is very quiet for a minute before trying to work this into the narrative ("Your experiences have given you, ah, enormous empathy with the suffering children of the world") and Ma won't allow that either; "Not just children... people are locked up in all sorts of ways."note Bonus points to Ma's attorney and Dr. Clay who are present and insist on keeping to the agreed-upon terms for the interview.
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Room / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Room / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Sometimes, Ma makes Jack hide inside the wardrobe so he doesn't have to see what Old Nick is doing to her.
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Room / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Room / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Ma understandably has many small ones while trapped inside Room, which Jack calls "being Gone" or (in the film) "having a Gone Day". She has a very bad one later after a televised interview, where the reporter blames her for raising Jack in the room instead of asking Old Nick to take him to a hospital; later, she attempts suicide.
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Room / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Room / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Most of the descriptions for the book at most hint half of the novel taking place after escaping Room. The trailers and descriptions for the movie, however, don’t even try to hide the fact that it does.
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Room / int_15f42962	type	Parents in Distress
Room / int_15f42962	comment	Parents in Distress: Jack tries to protect Ma from Old Nick after he ventures out of the wardrobe. He's also the only person who can help the police find her after he escapes.
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Room / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Room / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The author admitted the novel was originally inspired by the Fritzl case, and while it remains very, very different, certain aspects (the captor creating a small, soundproof cell which contained basic living conditions, the hostages being locked with a keypad, etc) seem to have been taken directly from the case.
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Room / int_16ad6f7f	type	"It" Is Dehumanizing
Room / int_16ad6f7f	comment	"It" Is Dehumanizing: When Jack whispers to Old Nick that he's five, Old Nick remarks "It speaks." Jack questions why he said "it" and not "he." Ma corrects someone after they call her stillborn daughter “it.” Ma gets upset with her father when he says he can’t be around Jack because “it makes [him] shudder.” Ma tells him there is no “it” and that Jack is a five year old boy.
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Room / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Room / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Leo, Jack's step-grandfather, or "Steppa".
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Room / int_18803ce9	type	Reincarnated as the Opposite Sex
Room / int_18803ce9	comment	Reincarnated as the Opposite Sex: Ma believes that her stillborn daughter was actually Jack, and a year later he tried to be born again, this time as a boy.
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Room / int_1da3a484	type	Alice Allusion
Room / int_1da3a484	comment	Alice Allusion: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is one of the few books they have in Room, and Jack often references it. His Ma compares herself to Alice when explaining to Jack how she got in Room.
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Room / int_1ef7232d	type	Wild Child
Room / int_1ef7232d	comment	Wild Child: Discussed and averted. Jack is described by the media as a feral child, but Ma actually raised him quite well, despite their isolation. (He's hardly feral; she gave him a high level of culture, moral standards and an appropriate education.)
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Room / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Room / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Ma's perspective, like how traumatic her captivity was and how difficult readjusting to the outside world is, is given heavy focus throughout the novel.
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Room / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
Room / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Ma's name in the movie is revealed to be Joy.
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Room / int_23fb6bf2	type	"Help! Help! Trapped in Title Factory!"
Room / int_23fb6bf2	comment	"Help! Help! Trapped in Title Factory!": Ma mentions that she tried to escape by leaving notes in the trash, without success.
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Room / int_24067bb9	type	Related in the Adaptation
Room / int_24067bb9	comment	Related in the Adaptation: A subtle example. Ma was adopted in the book, but there's no indication of this in the film, implying that they are her biological parents as well.
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Room / int_242b7b18	type	First Time in the Sun
Room / int_242b7b18	comment	First Time in the Sun: Jack seeing the sky while riding in the back of the truck. The sensory overload of the uncomfortable brightness of the sun almost screws up the escape plan. In the book, it's early evening and the dimming light doesn't bother him, he even thinks of the fresh air as "black air". But when he does go out in the sun a couple of days later, the light and the wind are all too much. It takes him a couple of weeks to get used to them, and he's still phobic about being rained on.
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Room / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
Room / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Jack refers to everything in Room by name, such as TV, Skylight, and Eggsnake (a toy snake that Ma makes out of string and eggshells saved from their meals).
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Room / int_2504772e	type	Walking Spoiler
Room / int_2504772e	comment	Walking Spoiler: Ma’s stillborn daughter reveals she had a stillbirth in the first place.
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Room / int_256301a9	type	That Thing Is Not My Child!
Room / int_256301a9	comment	That Thing Is Not My Child!: Ma loves Jack unconditionally, but her father rejects him, as he can't forget that Jack was conceived by rape. This in sharp contrast with Ma's mother, who immediately accepts her grandson.
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Room / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Room / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Ma mentions after the escape that she had another child, a daughter, who died when she was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. As a way to cope with this, she made herself believe that her stillborn daughter was actually Jack and that she decided to try to be born again a year later, this time as a boy. Ma’s father had a funeral for her after some time when she did not return. But her mother refused to believe she was dead.
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Room / int_285b4246	type	Birthday Hater
Room / int_285b4246	comment	Birthday Hater: During his birthday, Jack asks Ma how old she'll be on her next birthday. She replies "twenty-seven" and Jack notes that that put her in a bad mood. The implication is that each birthday reminds Ma of how much of her life she has been held captive by Old Nick.
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Room / int_2bf83d5f	type	Extremely Protective Child
Room / int_2bf83d5f	comment	Extremely Protective Child: A realistic example. Jack hates being separated from Ma for any time and is quick to comfort her when she needs him. When she's Gone, he often tries taking care of her, such as making her food.
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Room / int_2de495bb	type	Missing Child
Room / int_2de495bb	comment	Missing Child: What happened to Ma is every parent's worst nightmare - for seven years they had no idea where she was, what was being done to her and if she was even still alive. And then when she finally returns to them, she suffers from depression and tries to kill herself whilst they struggle to help her cope.
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Room / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Room / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Old Nick at least possesses the lowest possible amount of humanity required to feel bad for Ma when he believes her five-year-old son just died.
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Room / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Room / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: Ma is reluctant to do the TV interview, but she and her lawyer agree that it would be good as it's for Jack's college fund and future. Conventional broadcast networks don't pay sources to appear on-camera – even people like Joy. It's considered vastly unethical. Documentaries may sometimes pay their sources, but this was a television broadcast. We can assume that she's thinking the interview will get more publicity and more donations, as her attorney's already explained a charitable fund was set up.
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Room / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Room / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: In the book, Ma has a brother, sister-in-law and young niece, who all play roles in Jack adapting to life outside Room. They're all left out of the movie. Ma and Jack’s religious faith is a reoccurring element in the book but was cut out completely in the movie. The film leaves out a few minor characters and character elements; for example, the mental hospital staff play a more prominent role in the book. Small character details, such as the fact that Ma and her brother are both adopted, are removed, and the age at which Ma was abducted is changed from a 19-year-old college sophomore in the novel to a 17-year-old high school student in the film, to accommodate for the fact that she was played by a younger actress. By far the biggest detail removed from the film is that Jack was not the first product of Old Nick's assaults on Ma – she had carried a pregnancy to term before, a daughter, but due to Old Nick's negligence during the birth, she died almost instantly and was buried in the yard.
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Room / int_34e1ef45	type	Unnamed Parent
Room / int_34e1ef45	comment	Unnamed Parent: Jack always calls his mother "Ma" (and for a long time, he thinks that Ma is her name). He eventually learns that she has another name, but he never uses it. Averted in the movie, where her name is Joy Newsome.
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Room / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
Room / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: As part of their escape plan, Joy makes Old Nick believe that Jack died from the untreated illness so he would take the body outside.
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Room / int_39a8fc83	type	The Can Kicked Him
Room / int_39a8fc83	comment	The Can Kicked Him: Discussed when Ma tells Jack that she tried to kill Old Nick by hitting him on the head with the lid of the toilet cistern, as it was the heaviest thing in Room.
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Room / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Room / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: So much. Jack's getting older and starts to notice a few things, such as the brand of pain killers they have in Room and the commercial for them. It's possible that Jack would have been asking more questions on his own if they were stuck in Room longer. While Jack is healthy, given his circumstances, it doesn't change the fact that he's been locked in a shed his whole life. There’s a point after the escape where he needs six shots, presumably ones other children already had. He needs to wear sunglasses his first few times out in daylight, and a facemask until his body adjusts to its new surroundings. He’s easily overwhelmed by a gust of wind, doesn't like being rained on, and gets sunburned easily. Jack has never been farther than a dozen feet from his mother and has never interacted with anyone else for his entire life, so he struggles to communicate with others and doesn't react well when he's separated from her. To a point it seems like Ma expected her life to just pick up where it left off, just with Jack now. She gets a little irritated when people talk to her like she's been Defiled Forever, takes Jack to a crowded area of the clinic and outside before he's ready, gets testy about all the health precautions she and Jack need to take, (in the film) refuses to get Jack therapy for separation anxiety which leads to the above (in the book, Jack gets to talk to Dr. Clay who is also Ma's counselor); gets snippy with Jack when she thinks he'd rather be in Room when they've been out for barely a week, and the movie paints her as The Resenter when she's reminiscing about her friends from school and how they got to live their lives while she was stuck in a shed for seven years. As a result, she's easily Driven to Suicide, and Word of God confirms she'll never be truly over her ordeal. It's implied that Ma's parents separated as a result of her disappearance. In missing persons cases the parents are usually the first suspects. And sure enough, the death or disappearance of a child puts enough strain on marriage to lead to divorce. Ma's Defiant Captive tendencies only made her situation worse. Not only is Old Nick stronger than her, her attempts to physically attack him only made him angry. Sure enough during one of her escape attempts Old Nick damaged Ma's wrist bad enough that it still lingered by the time the story starts. And it's clear that Old Nick really thought about the set up, enough to install a door with key pad and put a wire fence under the foundation to prevent Ma from digging her way out. By the time Jack was born she had little choice but to play nice and placate Old Nick to keep herself and Jack safe.
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Room / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Room / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Jack and Ma escape Room, and eventually Jack's able to let go of his connection to it. While Ma will never truly be able to get over her years of imprisonment and abuse, she is starting to heal from it as best as she can.
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Room / int_462e2f79	type	The Outside World
Room / int_462e2f79	comment	The Outside World: The second part of the story deals with Jack entering the Outside World.
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Room / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
Room / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Jack keeps his long hair for a while after escaping Room, saying that that's where his strength is. After Ma's suicide attempt, he gets a haircut, and in the film he explains this is so that Ma can have his strength.
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Room / int_47b21ca6	type	Stress Vomit
Room / int_47b21ca6	comment	Stress Vomit: Ma at the end of the book when she and Jack visit Room one last time. This doesn’t happen in the movie where Joy seems to just have mixed feelings about it at worst.
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Room / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Room / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Ma in the book. The interviewer uses this as a point of arguing that Ma should have given up Jack. It's unknown if Paul is, likewise, adopted or their parent's biological child. But, assuming he was as well, then this trope applies to him as well.
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Room / int_4b12d2a2	type	Barefoot Captives
Room / int_4b12d2a2	comment	Barefoot Captives: Ma and Jack have no shoes in Room; to emphasise to Old Nick how low-maintenance they are, Ma says "we don't even need shoes". Jack has to make his escape in his socks: Ma tells him to wear his thickest pair.
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Room / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Room / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Ma tries twice, once with a toilet seat lid and once with a butter knife. Both fail.
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Room / int_4e3b5209	type	Beeping Computers
Room / int_4e3b5209	comment	Beeping Computers: Jack and Ma receive some warning that Old Nick is about to enter, from the beep-beep of the keypad to open the door.
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Room / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Room / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Then I see Ma's pill bottles open on the table, they look mostly empty. Never more than two, that's the rule, how could they be mostly empty, where did the pills go?"
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Room / int_4f3c14ca	type	Go Mad from the Isolation
Room / int_4f3c14ca	comment	Go Mad from the Isolation: Ma's years of isolation before Jack's birth was darkened by this; she left the TV on all day and started to believe that she heard it talk to her. Fortunately, she has a social outlet in Jack. To explain the concept to Jack, Ma tells him a story about baby monkeys who were taken from their mothers by scientists and raised in isolation. They grew up physically normal, but did weird things like biting themselves. She may be referencing Harry Harlow's monkey experiments.
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Room / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Room / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: At the beginning, Jack says hello to all of the things in Room. At the end, they return to Room and Jack says goodbye to all the things in Room as well as Room itself before they leave to move on with their lives. In the beginning of both the book and movie, Jack and Ma bake a cake for his birthday. The movie, however, adds a scene near the end where Jack makes a cake with Grandma. Jack lampshades that he had done it before in Room.
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Room / int_5addd374	type	Your Makeup Is Running
Room / int_5addd374	comment	Your Makeup Is Running: When Ma’s mother cries after seeing her daughter for the first time in seven years, Jack mentions her tears are black. Prior to that, he thought it was just a TV thing, as he had never seen someone cry while wearing makeup before.
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Room / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Room / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: When the novel was first released, it not solely being about Ma and Jack's escape was a subversive twist. But due to reviews and movie trailers not even trying to hide it, it's common knowledge half the plot focuses on them adjusting to the outside world.
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Room / int_603e1654	type	Patched Together from the Headlines
Room / int_603e1654	comment	Patched Together from the Headlines: Although admittedly inspired by the Fritzl case, the fictional kidnapping has some elements more in common with the earlier Natascha Kampusch case, such as it being a stranger abduction and Ma talking about her experience on TV. There were also rumors that Kampusch had a stillborn while in captivity and Priklopil buried it in his garden.
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Room / int_60f567f1	type	Lonely Piano Piece
Room / int_60f567f1	comment	Lonely Piano Piece: Plays several times in the movie, underpinning Joy's state of mind.
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Room / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Room / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Ma breaks down when she realizes that their only chance at escape is for Jack to leave Room and for her to be left behind. Not only was she putting her son in an incredibly risky position, but if any part of the plan had gone wrong (Old Nick realizing Jack was still alive and killing him for real, Old Nick returning to Room and murdering her, or the police being unable to locate her) would mean that she would be trapped there forever and left for dead.
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Room / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
Room / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: The second segment of the book is titled "Dying", and references how Jack has to pretend to be dead. The last segment is titled "Living", and references how Jack and Ma are finally starting to truly recover and adapt to the outside world.
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Room / int_6bab4b2e	type	Like a Duck Takes to Water
Room / int_6bab4b2e	comment	Like a Duck Takes to Water: The central focus point of the novel is Jack not only learning that the outside world exists, but how to live in it and move on from Room; which, by the end of the novel, he's pretty much succeeded in.
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Room / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Room / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: When they're escaping Ma tells Jack that she's his mother, and that means she chooses for the both of them. When Ma is in the hospital, Jack tells her over the phone that he's her son, and that means he chooses for the both of them.
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Room / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Room / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Old Nick" is a slang term for Satan. Jack says he saw a cartoon where a guy by that name comes in the night, so he just started calling him that.
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Room / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Room / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Ma eventually tries to kill herself, but survives.
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Room / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Room / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Joy's dad cannot bear to look at Jack, as it's implied that for him, the boy represents his own failure at protecting his daughter. Fundamentally, he cannot cope with the fact that the boy was born out of the rape of his daughter, and psychologically, he cannot overlook this, to the point that he has to leave Joy to her mother's care and disappears for the rest of the story.
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Room / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
Room / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: In the book, Jack often refers to people calling Ma by her "other name" but never reveals what it is. The movie names her Joy Newsome (so that Jack is, by extension, Jack Newsome).
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Room / int_7293c9af	type	Sick Captive Scam
Room / int_7293c9af	comment	Sick Captive Scam: Ma and Jack fake that Jack is dying of a fever, then his death, in order to trick Old Nick into taking Jack outside where he can escape.
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Room / int_73f0c42a	type	I Just Want to Be Free
Room / int_73f0c42a	comment	I Just Want to Be Free: Ma hates being trapped in Room, and plans to escape. Her wishes become more urgent after she learns Old Nick has been without a job for six months and, in danger of house foreclosure, might kill her and Jack to hide his crimes.
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Room / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Room / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Jack asks Ma what a crater is, to which Ma replies "Holes where something happened." The concept of "holes where something happened" returns numerous times throughout the book.
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Room / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Room / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: After they escape, Ma asks Jack if he remembers how he was "born the first time" as a girl. This is the first time the reader has ever really heard about it, but Jack already knows what she's talking about, and she finally tells him the whole story about her stillborn daughter.
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Room / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Room / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: When the interviewer implies that she failed to do what was best for Jack by keeping him with her and not getting him out of the room earlier, Ma is so overcome with guilt that she attempts suicide.
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Room / int_7eccbb3d	type	Shower Scene
Room / int_7eccbb3d	comment	Shower Scene: Ma and Jack are seen having their first shower since escaping from Room. Jack has only known baths, and Ma tells him that a shower is splashier.
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Room / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Room / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The first time Old Nick arrives, he not only didn't remember it was Jack's birthday, but isn't sure how old he is and refers to Jack as "it". Then, he starts complaining about how hard it is to take care of them.
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Room / int_813afa05	type	Defiled Forever
Room / int_813afa05	comment	To a point it seems like Ma expected her life to just pick up where it left off, just with Jack now. She gets a little irritated when people talk to her like she's been Defiled Forever, takes Jack to a crowded area of the clinic and outside before he's ready, gets testy about all the health precautions she and Jack need to take, (in the film) refuses to get Jack therapy for separation anxiety which leads to the above (in the book, Jack gets to talk to Dr. Clay who is also Ma's counselor); gets snippy with Jack when she thinks he'd rather be in Room when they've been out for barely a week, and the movie paints her as The Resenter when she's reminiscing about her friends from school and how they got to live their lives while she was stuck in a shed for seven years. As a result, she's easily Driven to Suicide, and Word of God confirms she'll never be truly over her ordeal.
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Room / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
Room / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Averted in the book. Ma mentions in the interview that she had an abortion about a year before she was kidnapped, and doesn’t regret it.
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Room / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Room / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Ma pretends to be very cheerful and grateful to Old Nick when he comes to Room at night, to keep him happy and to protect her son. She also tries to project a happy image to Jack. But she is still miserable being trapped in Room. Lampshaded when she is interviewed. She says "I did it on autopilot, you know, Stepford Wife."
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Room / int_853f8327	type	Unconfessed Unemployment
Room / int_853f8327	comment	Unconfessed Unemployment: Old Nick. It gets Foreshadowing in his complaints about how expensive things are.
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Room / int_8792383c	type	Censorship by Spelling
Room / int_8792383c	comment	Censorship by Spelling: Ma's lawyer says (in front of Jack) that someone has sent F-E-C-E-S. Jack says "why someone sent us poo?" "He's a good speller," Ma says to her lawyer.
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Room / int_8e3b5b4d	type	Minimalist Cast
Room / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	Minimalist Cast: Jack, Ma, and Old Nick are the only characters who appear in the first half of the novel.
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Room / int_8f37640a	type	Lies to Children
Room / int_8f37640a	comment	Lies to Children: For the first four years of his life, Ma lies to Jack about the existence of other people, to protect him from understanding what they are deprived of. She later confesses this and "unlies" to tell him what's really going on.
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Room / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Room / int_9099c21c	comment	GPS Evidence: After Jack manages to escape Old Nick's clutches, an ordinary beat cop is able to locate and rescue Ma by gently interrogating a traumatized child to get a handful of vital clues such as the number of stops Old Nick's truck made, and that the building holding Ma is a shed with a skylight.
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Room / int_90c30080	type	Bunker Woman
Room / int_90c30080	comment	Bunker Woman: Ma, who has been held captive and not left Room once in seven years. Although the bunker is actually not underground, but in the garden.
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Room / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Room / int_916c72b3	comment	It's implied he accidentally swallowed the tooth, since he likes to suck on it and often falls asleep while doing so. If so, the Rule of Symbolism is even stronger: whether he swallowed it or not, he believes he now has a small piece of Ma inside him forever. This assurance helps him to become more independent from the real Ma.
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Room / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Room / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Before Jack, Ma had another daughter by Old Nick who died when she was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck.
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Room / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
Room / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: An ordinary dog walker is able to save Jack from being recaptured by Old Nick by spooking the kidnapper into fleeing when it becomes obvious Jack is being abducted, immediately calling the police and staying with the boy until the cops arrive.
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Room / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Room / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: So who was Old Nick? What was his real name? What was Ma's real name for that matter? The movie answers only one of those questions.
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Room / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Room / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Played with. In the clinic, Ma basically starts talking to one especially after her suicide attempt. However, the doctor suggests that it's probably a good idea for Jack to get some therapy for separation anxiety and Ma immediately rejects it. Sometime later, Jack's response to "wait in the room" is to cling tighter to Ma, which leads to him hitting his head on a table in her attempt to get him off.
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Room / int_9bf3470e	type	Santa Claus
Room / int_9bf3470e	comment	Santa Claus: Back when Jack was still unaware of the outside world, he debates what is and isn’t real. Santa is one of the things he concludes is, as he gave them presents for Christmas.
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Room / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Room / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: During Old Nick’s visits he’ll occasionally complain about how things are getting too expensive. He lost his job six months ago and Ma realizes that she and Jack would be in real danger if his house is foreclosed, maybe even before it comes to that. Ma's pain pills. At the beginning of the book, Jack explains the rule that Ma can only have two. This clues the audience into Ma's suicide attempt. While explaining the outside world to Jack, Ma reveals that she was actually adopted. This comes back to bite her when the interviewer asks why Ma didn't do this for Jack when she grew up Happily Adopted herself. Jack mentions that there’s a stain on the bed from when he was “born the first time.” Later, Ma tells Old Nick he can’t bury Jack’s body in the backyard before saying “You never should have done that.” These both foreshadow Ma’s stillborn daughter, who Old Nick buried in the backyard a year prior to Jack being born.
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Room / int_9d174dc0	type	Hates Being Alone
Room / int_9d174dc0	comment	Hates Being Alone: Jack, having lived in a tiny room with his mother all his life, is very unhappy when he can't be with her.
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Room / int_a2ba7393	type	Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes
Room / int_a2ba7393	comment	Jack seeing the sky while riding in the back of the truck. The sensory overload of the uncomfortable brightness of the sun almost screws up the escape plan.
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Room / int_a31c79f3	type	Paparazzi
Room / int_a31c79f3	comment	Paparazzi: They are harassed by these, including a helicopter that tries to take airborne photographs of the mother and child as they are walking on the grounds at the psychiatric hospital they stay at after their escape from Old Nick.
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Room / int_a6c99b08	type	Shoot Out the Lock
Room / int_a6c99b08	comment	Shoot Out the Lock: This is how the police get Ma out of Room once Jack tells them where she is.
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Room / int_ace24b2c	type	Halfway Plot Switch
Room / int_ace24b2c	comment	Halfway Plot Switch: The first half focuses on Ma and Jack’s life in Room and their escape. The second half is about them learning to adjust to the outside world.
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Room / int_ad43ba7f	type	Non-Nude Bathing
Room / int_ad43ba7f	comment	Non-Nude Bathing: When Ma's mother gives Jack a bath, Jack insists that she gets in the bath with him. She wears a swimsuit because she would rather not be naked, if Jack doesn't mind.
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Room / int_b0021c03	type	Rodent Cellmates
Room / int_b0021c03	comment	Rodent Cellmates: Jack tries to make friends with a mouse that wanders into the Room, but Ma smacks it when she finds it to avoid the risk of disease or food contamination.
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Room / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
Room / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepmother: Subverted with Leo; despite Ma being hostile to him at first, he's a far better and sweeter grandparent figure for Jack than his mother's father is. He and Jack have a good bond by the end of the book, when Jack considers him to be a "real grandparent" (which Ma hopes her own father will grow into being).
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Room / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Room / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Jack's biological father, Old Nick, is holding him hostage and depriving him from proper socialization and development. For his daughter, Old Nick did zero research into assuring she was healthy, and didn't care when she died. Had she lived, he would have treated her the same way he treated Jack.
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Room / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Room / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: While Jack is only five years old when the story ends, it is clear that he has changed much.
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Room / int_b1fd7687	type	Kingpin in His Gym
Room / int_b1fd7687	comment	Kingpin in His Gym: Implied by the treadmill in Old Nick's house.
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Room / int_b3a8053f	type	Never a Runaway
Room / int_b3a8053f	comment	Never a Runaway: At least in the book, it's heavily implied that, while she was actually kidnapped by Old Nick, Ma's parents thought that she had run away for reasons they didn't understand. The police suggested that she might've been a drug addict, despite no evidence of this.
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Room / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
Room / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: When Ma is trying to tell him the story of how she got kidnapped, Jack keeps asking her things like what the color of Old Nick’s truck was, or the name of the dog that was used to kidnap Ma.
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Room / int_bb7ae292	type	Child by Rape
Room / int_bb7ae292	comment	Child by Rape: Jack was conceived via one of Old Nick's numerous rapes against Ma.
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Room / int_bcbb5596	type	Not Afraid of You Anymore
Room / int_bcbb5596	comment	Not Afraid of You Anymore: Ma expresses no fear of encountering Old Nick at his court hearing, wanting to look him in the eye to show him that he could not beat her.
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Room / int_bd1df81	type	Prone to Sunburn
Room / int_bd1df81	comment	While Jack is healthy, given his circumstances, it doesn't change the fact that he's been locked in a shed his whole life. There’s a point after the escape where he needs six shots, presumably ones other children already had. He needs to wear sunglasses his first few times out in daylight, and a facemask until his body adjusts to its new surroundings. He’s easily overwhelmed by a gust of wind, doesn't like being rained on, and gets sunburned easily.
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Room / int_bdc94cd9	type	Compressed Adaptation
Room / int_bdc94cd9	comment	Compressed Adaptation: Though the film evenly splits time between Jack and Ma in Room and in the outside world, it leaves out much of the "slice-of-life" narrative of Room from the novel and a few characters from the second half.
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Room / int_be0ad6b7	type	Used to Be a Sweet Kid
Room / int_be0ad6b7	comment	Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Ma, especially in the movie, although she is not a villain at all. She calls out this trope almost by name when her mother criticizes her for being rude:
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Room / int_bfc84d44	type	Calling Parents by Their Name
Room / int_bfc84d44	comment	Calling Parents by Their Name: Due to not even knowing he's his father, Jack refers to his dad as Old Nick. Although that isn't his real name.
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Room / int_bfdbf829	type	Significant Name Shift
Room / int_bfdbf829	comment	Significant Name Shift: When they leave Room for the very last time, Jack refers to Room's door as just "the door", which is the first time he's referred to an object in Room by a noun rather than a name. This symbolizes that he is now ready to move on from Room.
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Room / int_c45e0fea	type	Adaptational Timespan Change
Room / int_c45e0fea	comment	Adaptational Timespan Change: Events that took a while in the book also happen much faster in the movie, such as Jack and Ma initiating the escape plan and their stay in the hospital.
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Room / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
Room / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: The reader, partially due to the fact that the previews reveal it, and partially due to their own common sense, knows several thing from the start that Jack doesn't realize. Most notably, that he and Ma are being held hostage Old Nick, that Ma was kidnapped several years prior, and that the outside world is real. Jack doesn't learn any of this until Ma tells him, however.
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Room / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Room / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Since the novel is implied to take place in 2010, children’s media that was popular back then are mentioned. The most prominent one is Dora the Explorer. Wonder Pets!, The Backyardigans and the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Frankendoodle" are mentioned. One of the books they have is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland because of the Alice Allusion used in the novel. Harry Potter is briefly mentioned in the scene where Jack is at the library.
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Room / int_ca4e037	type	Dude Looks Like a Lady
Room / int_ca4e037	comment	Dude Looks Like a Lady: Jack is frequently mistaken for a girl by strangers due to his long hair.
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Room / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Room / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The readers are never told what Old Nick's real name is, besides the fact that his name is confirmed to not actually be Nick or Nicolas. Same goes for Ma. In the movie, Ma has a name - Joy - but Old Nick doesn't.
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Room / int_cccfa535	type	Blindfolded Trip
Room / int_cccfa535	comment	Blindfolded Trip: Ma mentions being blindfolded by Old Nick before taken to Room.
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Room / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
Room / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: Averted. Social services do exist and immediately spring into action after they escape.
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Room / int_cf7ccd79	type	Orphanage of Fear
Room / int_cf7ccd79	comment	To an extent, Ma is a bit more outgoing, talkative and political after her release in the novel — part of what drives her to a breaking point is the fact that she’s revered as a hero when — having gone online on the clinic's computers to look up "confinement" and "trafficking" — she knows how many prisoners live in solitary confinement and children work in sweatshops or live in an Orphanage of Fear. And she’s not quiet about it. With the shorter run-time, Ma is portrayed as a quieter version of shell-shocked in the movie.
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Room / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: In the book, Jack is assisted in his escape and rescue of Ma by Ajeet, an Indian-American guy out walking his dog, and Officer Oh, an Asian-American policewoman. In the film, they are changed to Doug (a white guy) and Officer Parker (a black woman).
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Room / int_d934b1c7	comment	Small, Secluded World: Room is narrated by a 5-year-old who is unaware of anything outside the 11' x 11' room he lives in. Eventually, his mother reveals that they are locked in her kidnapper's garden shed.
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Room / int_de2ee4e8	comment	Two-Act Structure: The first half deals with a woman and her young son, both of whom have been prisoners for years. Then, halfway through the book and the film, they escape, and the story becomes about the two of them trying to adjust to normal lives.
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Room / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Ma, especially whenever Old Nick tries to get a look at Jack.
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Room / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Emma Donoghue was given the idea for the novel from the Fritzl case. Ma is loosely based off Elisabeth Fritzl, who was held captive in a cellar for 24 years, Old Nick is inspired by her captor Josef, and Jack is based of Felix, who was also five years old when he first emerged from the cellar. However, Donoghue stated she dislikes people saying Room is “about” the Fritzl case, as the only thing she really took from it was a woman having to raise her young child in captivity.
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Room / int_e598d4ac	comment	Innocent Inaccurate: Since he's just five, Jack doesn't understand some of the things around him that are obvious to the reader. Most importantly, he never learns that Old Nick regularly raped his mother and that's how he was conceived.
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Room / int_ea30a388	comment	Carpet-Rolled Corpse: This is part of Ma's Bodybag Trick to help her and her son escape captivity.
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Room / int_ecf4f7ce	comment	Constantly Curious: Five-year-old Jack, despite Ma's education of him, is very naive and curious about the world, especially after they escape Room.
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Room / int_ee2a3bfc	comment	Prefers Going Barefoot: Having lived indoors all his life, Jack has trouble wearing shoes outside.
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Room / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: "Dumbass" is probably too strong of a word, but when Ma and Jack are formulating ways to escape, Jack's suggestions (due to being five and not really understanding the circumstances they're in) are all very childish and definitely would not work. However, Jack's last idea is to trick Old Nick like how Old Nick tricked Ma with the sick dog, and Ma realizes that tricking him with a sick captive scam might actually work.
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Room / int_f4b1129f	comment	Anger Born of Worry: Ma gets angry at Jack a few times when Jack risks upsetting Old Nick, which would endanger them both.
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Room / int_f7fd81dd	comment	Clean, Pretty Childbirth: Averted. There's a stain on the rug from when Jack was born and another on the bed from his sister.
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Room / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Room / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Ma convinces Jack to do this so he can be rescued from Room.
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Room / int_fa068232	comment	Bodybag Trick: Ma fakes five-year-old Jack's illness and death so he can escape when Old Nick takes him outside in a carpet to bury him. This is the only way either of them will be able to get out of Room.
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Room / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
Room / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: Due to Jack's age, he doesn't have a complete understanding of the full extent of what his Ma went through in Room, and will bring it up casually in conversation with people. Almost everybody understands this and try to brush it off. Although Ma, struggling with severe PTSD, temporarily snaps and loses her temper at a few points. Ma gets in on this after they leave Room. She's all too willing and ready to put it behind her, but for Jack, all he's known is Room. As a result, Ma pushes Jack into trying things before he's ready (such as going outside) and (in the film, not in the book) denies Jack therapy he probably could have used to help him cope (such as for separation anxiety). At one point Ma even irritably asks Jack why he doesn't like it outside when he's been out of Room for two days.
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Room / int_ff555c8f	comment	Cross-Referenced Titles: The second chapter is titled "Dying". The last chapter is titled "Living".
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Room / int_ffe1bbf8	comment	Ma's Defiant Captive tendencies only made her situation worse. Not only is Old Nick stronger than her, her attempts to physically attack him only made him angry. Sure enough during one of her escape attempts Old Nick damaged Ma's wrist bad enough that it still lingered by the time the story starts. And it's clear that Old Nick really thought about the set up, enough to install a door with key pad and put a wire fence under the foundation to prevent Ma from digging her way out. By the time Jack was born she had little choice but to play nice and placate Old Nick to keep herself and Jack safe.
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