[ebooktalk] Re: "Room"
- From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 20:35:04 +0100
Pele,
I can understand you feeling unsettled about two people being confined in a
small room, though I found the way that Jack's world had developped within
the room's confines quite fascinating. I was relieved when they finally
escaped, and think that the man's motives for abducting the girl weren't
that crucial to the story, although I don't think they were difficult to
guess. For me, the second half of the book, after the release, centred on
the contrast of emotions experienced by the two main characters - for Jack
it opens up a new, and rather frightening world, and he has a hankering to
go back to the security of "Room", while for his mum it is a wonderful
release from years of being imprisonned, and going back to the room, even
for a visit, revolts her. One of my friends, when we read it for our book
group, disliked it because she didn't feel an adult woman writer had the
right to presume how the mind of a five-year-old boy would think in such a
situation. Perhaps she had a point. I'd love to know what kind of
psychological research Donaghue did prior to writing the novel.
Trish.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pele West" <pele.west@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 1:43 PM
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: American books.
Hi Elaine
I am afraid I could not finish "Room". This was not because it was a
terrible book, but I couldn't take the idea of these people locked up in
that small room. One day I will read it and find out how they coped when
they got out. But I was told by other people who read it that there was
no satisfactory explanation of why the woman had been abducted and held
in the room.
Pele
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