Literature Analysis Question #1

1. "ROOM" by Emma Donoghue is about a five year old boy named Jack and is told from his perspective. Jack and his mother are both held captive in a small room. Since Jack had never had contact with the outside world, the small room is the only place that he had ever known and believes that the things that surround him are real. For instance, the tv, the kitchen, the bathtub, the wardrobe, and the bed. The only human being that Jack had contact with other than his mother was Old Nick, who only comes at night when Jack is asleep. Old Nick is the only person who can bring supplies and food for Jack and his mother. Finding out that Old Nick was going to lose his house, Jack's mother feared that Old Nick was going to kill them. Ma had an idea, that Jack should fake his own death and seek for aide. Jack had faked his death by having a high fever due to the lack of vitamins. Ma's plan was a success. Jack and ma were know able to live a normal life without the feeling of being incarcerated in a small space.

2. I believe that the theme of this novel is home because Jack never had contact with the outside world and the room was his world. He believed that everything in the room was real.

3. Based on the authors tone, I imagine Emma's morning routine as waking up taking a look outside her balcony and seeing how wonderful and great this world is. Like Jack, the room is his world in which he thinks is wonderful unlike his mother she thinks the room is a very unpleasant place to be in, and always having fear and being trapped and incarcerated. Breakfast, I can imagine Emma eating a perfectly great healthy meal, like Jack and his ma they always have vitamins to keep themselves healthy and strong. I can also imagine Emma exercising to keep herself healthy and in shape. Like Jack and his ma, everyday Jack and ma would always exercise and would always have a competition to see who is the fastest runner. 

4. Foreshadowing is one literacy technique I saw in the book. For instance, " Now that i'm 5, ma says that room is too small for me. she says there's things outside the walls." meaning Jack has grown up and that the room is too small and it's about time that jack gets to see the outside world, which foreshadows them soon escaping. Another literacy technique I saw in the book is alliteration and repetition. "It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind it doesn't matter.when a bit of me hurts o always mind." Not only does this show alliteration but also repetition, the words repeat themselves and the words commence with the same sounds. Another literacy technique I saw was simile. " I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened." This is a simile because Jack compares his room to a giant crater with a hole.