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We first meet Jack as he is turning five. He lives with
his Ma in a small Room where they are kept prisoner. Room is where he
was born and where they eat, sleep, watch TV, and play. Room is all
Jack’s ever known and he’s happy there. His Ma has kept him entertained.
They exercise together, read together, and see the creative
possibilities in everything, even empty eggshells. At night he sleeps
in a wardrobe, to keep him away from their captor, who he calls Old
Nick. His Ma is an incredible woman who has built as safe and fun a life
for Jack as she can in the circumstances, full of games and laughter
and hope. But if this is Jack’s home, the only home he has ever know, it
has been her prison for seven long years. As it becomes more and more
obvious that things have to change if Jack is to have any chance of a
normal life, Ma has to tell Jack that there is a whole world outside
Room. This unbalances everything he’s ever known and still, he’s going
to need to be very, very brave.
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