Room
By Emma Donoghue
Rating 5/5 🥰🥰
Genres : Fiction, Heart touching, Novel, 2022-read
Wow, just wow. I have no words to describe this book..so I am going to do some psychological analysis of the boy who is the narrator of this story. Jack. On the outset, this book doesn't feel like much. But deeper and deeper it takes us to the core of the soul of five year old kid Jack who born and brought up in captivity with no other company than his mother and really, truly wants nothing more! The mother too, though for a while yearns for free form of living craves to get back into the all encompassing and all merging relationship with her son. Is this sounding even remotely holy or acceptable? It is bordering on incest but Jack is such a naive kid and knows nothing..feels no shame/barrier with his mother about anything..just that his soul wants to be one with her all the time. He is a vulnerable and helpless kid without his mother to protect him and give him what he wants. He stirs that aspect of a mother in me and I feel very protective towards him.. Would he have been different if his circumstances and childhood were different?
So, Jack's mother gets kidnapped at the age of nineteen and for seven years is held a captive in a room and repeatedly abused by an older man/maniac. Jack is born in the room/prison and forms a deep bond with all the animate(his mother) and inanimate things that mark his world. He is unaware of the big large world that is out there and is quite content with his lot..only his mother doesn't want to stay locked up for the reminder of their lives. She makes a bold plan and almost risks Jack's life to make their escape happen. They do come out and for a while are kept in a mental health hospital to help cope with the sudden change. But then something goes wrong with his mother..she almost takes her life..and the turmoil/state of absolute fear/feeling of being lost this pushes Jack into..even when he has his loving grandparents to look after him..demonstrates how much of a dependency he has formed of his mother..his very survival depends on her existence!! So, so profound and deep! Every minute of their separation, Jack has spent remembering her and chewing on her old tooth like it is a talisman that would bring her back..or keep her near to him always. I love love love the innocent baby in Jack!
Jack and his mother eventually move on from their nightmarish (or is it?) past with the room but what awaits them? Who will Jack grow up to be? Will they ever separate and survive? All lingering questions..and this is only a work of fiction right?! 😂🙃
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