I’m enjoying this book so far (I’m
about 2/3 through it) because it’s neat to see what life would be like if you
were really born into a situation like that, and I never would have even
imagined that Jack wouldn’t want to
leave Room, because I never considered the true saying that you can’t miss what
you never had. I thought this related
well because Jack doesn’t want to be Outside, all he has ever known is Room.
I really like about this book that
it’s told from a five-year-old’s point of view, Jack’s, because it’s very
unique and interesting and sometimes I tend to forget what it was like to be
five; hearing him talk about everything around him is often funny and
intriguing because it makes me want to read on and find out if he’ll every
discover what the thing he was confused about really is. I also really like the fact that they don’t
tell it from any other perspectives besides Jack’s because that means I get the
chance to sort of infer what Ma is probably thinking by Jack’s descriptions of
her and her actions.
Something I dislike about this book
is that it’s a bit slow-moving; I understand that it’s the point of the story
to really show you how many things you have to come up with to keep yourself
occupied in a situation like this but it does drone on a bit once you get to
around 200 pages and it’s still talking about every little thing in the same
manner as it did in the beginning of the story.
I think it still meets my expectations though, even with this minor
setback, because the author worked very hard to make this story sound as
realistic as it does. If I didn’t know
this story was fictional, I would believe every word she wrote. It’s probably exactly how a five-year-old boy
thinks and in his smart condition as well.
And the droning on just shows how boring life must have been from Ma’s perspective,
even though Jack finds it all entertaining.
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