Author's Note: This is an essay on theme analysis and the theme I picked out of the book Room, by Emma Donoghue was hope. You will see in many ways throughout this essay how that theme is indeed expressed in the book as well.
Imagine being trapped in a room,
disguised as a shed for five to seven years with nobody knowing you were in
there...Tough thing to think about isn’t it? People have been searching for you
for a while but you were kidnapped and nobody knew... try living with that one.
Trying to get out but you just can't make it happen... Picture the pain. This
was how Jack and Ma lived in the book, Room by Emma
Donoghue. This story supports the theme of hope because throughout the
whole book, they have a sense of hope that they can get past Old Nick
and reconvene with their family. (Donoghue, Room)
Ma always had hope that they could get out of Room. She says to Jack, "The
point is, we need to escape before that. You're going to get back in the rug
now and practice some more till you get the knack of wriggling out." (Donoghue) Room is only
an 11x11 foot space; only in your dreams could you live in a place that small.
You can sense the panicky
vibe she is giving off because she feels so strongly about successfully tricking Old Nick into getting
out of Room. This also represents the kind of person Ma came off to me as
through the author's writing; strong-willed, confident, and brave- and hopeful.
I
get a feeling that Jack is hoping that Old Nick
isn’t ripping her to shreds for what she planned to do but he did. It would be his doing for her being killed. That she is still alive. You can
sense it through what the author wrote down that he was thinking. Ma, Ma, Ma. I don’t hear her in my head, she’s
not talking. His hands are so tight around her, tighter, tighter, tighter, she
can’t talk, she can’t breathe, she can’t anything. Alive things bend but she’s
bent and bent and—“ (Donoghue, Room) Jack seems like
a child that is easily scared. Who wouldn’t be if they were kept a secret for
so many years and suddenly exposed to so many new things?
Similar
to the book Room was an article that I
read was called, "Girl Was Kept In Closet For Years," this had
the central theme of hope. Locked
in through not the child's words, but what I took from the article that it
seemed how the child would feel in that situation. This child was locked in a
closet for approximately four years, and was kept there by parents and
siblings. People pretended she didn't exist. Her real dad didn't even know she
was alive. The only thing that could have possibly kept this child going was hope. Room and this depressing story are similar
in that some of their family members did not know that they were in
there, in the case of Ma and Jack, that they were even alive. (Prosecutors: Girl was Kept in Closet for Years)
Not only have people been kept in rooms
and closets, but now in basements as well. "Wisconsin Girl has been
Abused" is another example of extreme form of abuse that took place. A
poor-sadly teen at only
fifteen years of age was forced to stay in the basement with no food or water
for long periods of time. You could tell the only thing she could turn to was hoping. Hoping that everything was going to be alright. She was, by her father and step-mother, required to
complete certain "tasks" that were not pleasant. You can tell
that she was hoping to someday get out of the basement and away from the torture
because of how she decided to escape; through a window. This relates to Room,
in the way that Ma was forced to also complete the same "tasks." (Police: Malnourished Wisconsin Girl has been Abused; Locked in Basement
since 2006)
In
hopes they can reconvene with their family, Ma and Jack
cling to the sense
of hope throughout a large portion of the novel, Room by Emma Donoghue. As
you've read, you've have most likely noticed that this realistic fiction story
isn’t just found in fiction novels. It
is one of the thousands of things that happen to not only kids, but
adults as well. There are many other tragic things that can take place and ruin
someone for what could be, the rest of their lives.
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