Jack’s not so friendly friend, Room The brain is such a vital, and complex part of the human body. The stages of development that the brain has to go through are incredibly important to making the brain everything that it needs to be. In Emma Donoghue’s Room, the main character/narrator Jack, will have to deal with a major setback to his brain’s development. Jack and his mother, Ma, are imprisoned in Old Nick’s shed located in his backyard until shortly after Jack turns five years old. That is the very reason why Jack’s brain will not develop until after their escape. There are four stages of development and Jack’s stages of development were tampered with due to the trauma that he thought was the norm for the first five years of his life.
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This stage comes to terms when the child is somewhere in between ages seven and 11. Obviously Jack is only five years old when the big escape happens, but he can still relate to some of the developments that should be happening in this time of his life. According to WebMd, children “...begin to realize that one's own thoughts and feelings are unique and may not be shared by others or may not even be part of reality.” Jack has a taste of this when there is a family outing to what was supposed to be to the Natural History Museum to see the dinosaurs, but only ended up being to the mall. Jack was under the impression that Ma was having a “gone day” so Jack and his aunt, uncle and cousin has to go without Ma. At first Jack did not was to go but when they were gone, Jack did not have any major problems without his mother. This is how the readers knew that how be began to realized that he does not need his mom to be right by his side at all times. There are a few things that Jack struggles with that are not exactly covered by Piaget’s stages of development. One of these other things is that Jack struggles with is depth perception after he and Ma escape. Due to the fact that he was held captive in this tiny square room where the furniture rarely ever changed, he had never had come across stairs. The first time that Jack encountered stairs, he did not know what to do. Ma told him to hold onto the banister and climb down one step at a time. Jack thought to himself, “I’m going to fall. I sit down”
This stage comes to terms when the child is somewhere in between ages seven and 11. Obviously Jack is only five years old when the big escape happens, but he can still relate to some of the developments that should be happening in this time of his life. According to WebMd, children “...begin to realize that one's own thoughts and feelings are unique and may not be shared by others or may not even be part of reality.” Jack has a taste of this when there is a family outing to what was supposed to be to the Natural History Museum to see the dinosaurs, but only ended up being to the mall. Jack was under the impression that Ma was having a “gone day” so Jack and his aunt, uncle and cousin has to go without Ma. At first Jack did not was to go but when they were gone, Jack did not have any major problems without his mother. This is how the readers knew that how be began to realized that he does not need his mom to be right by his side at all times. There are a few things that Jack struggles with that are not exactly covered by Piaget’s stages of development. One of these other things is that Jack struggles with is depth perception after he and Ma escape. Due to the fact that he was held captive in this tiny square room where the furniture rarely ever changed, he had never had come across stairs. The first time that Jack encountered stairs, he did not know what to do. Ma told him to hold onto the banister and climb down one step at a time. Jack thought to himself, “I’m going to fall. I sit down”