I only know about the book Room,
by Emma Donoghue, from online summaries and recommendations from my
friend. My friend has told me that this is a very good book that she has
read multiple times because she enjoys it so much. According to
summaries, this book is about a mother and her five-year-old son who are
the property of a man and live in his shed. The shed is the “room” and
it is the only part of the world that the son believes to exist. He
watches TV, but his mother tells him that everything he sees on the TV
is not part of the real world. The climax of the story is when the
mother tries to help the son escape. What is interesting about this book
is that it is told from the point of view of the five-year-old son.
Additionally, this book was inspired by a true story, based on the 2008
Fritzl Case. This book was written in 2010, so it should have relatively
modern references.
Hey Ari,
ReplyDeleteNow I want to try out this book with you! I don't think I have ever crossed a book with a plot like that before. The book seems unique to me because, like you mentioned, there is such a young narrator. It must be so interesting to see the world (well, jut the Room) through a young child's mind. Also, I'm curious to find out why exactly the mother and her child live in the shed - how did they get in that position? I'm also curious about the character of the man. How does the man own the mother and her child? Right now I imagine this man to be some serial-type psychopath. All I can be reminded of right now is those stories in the news of people who have been kidnapped like twenty years ago and then are finally found to have been kept imprisoned in the basement of their neighbor's house all these years.
You've captured my interest!
This story sounds pretty interesting - I'm curious as to what the real story was (the 'Fritzl case'. And I feel like the relationship between the man and the mother + child could be so many different things - I'm hoping you'll explain that next time. Also, the son must be a pretty intriguing character, considering he's the narrator of such a unique story. I agree that it will be pretty cool to see things from his perspective. I'm not sure why; I just feel like he's going to turn out to be a super-smart little kid. Anyway, this story sounds so different that I really want to know how it goes. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteDear Ari,
ReplyDeleteI've seen you carry around that beautiful book for a while now. I'm assuming that friend of yours is Jessica. :) Anyways, that kind of genre is what I love the most, because it not only tells a story through a new light, I begin to see the world through a different shed of light. That reminds me of the story where a 50-year-old man went to jail recently after the police had found out that he locked his daughter in a secret underground basement for nearly two decades. I believe he raped her and had kids with his own child. The children of the daughter has never seen the world, and could barely talk. They had many physical disorders because their body had to adjust to a really tight space. I hope the little boy does escape in the end and get a chance to relive his life. I can't wait to read your next update on how the book was! Have fun reading :)
Question: When you said that the book is told in the perspective of the five-year-old, do his thoughts correlate also? Let me rephrase that. So do the sentence structures, depth of thinking, and choices of words correlate to the little boy? Or is it well-written?