Isolation In Room Emma Donoghue

In the book Room Emma Donoghue uses Jack with the help of Ma to show how an individual can go from being isolated in a controlled environment to learning how to fit in with society and go about everyday life. Jack and Ma were put in isolation for what they thought was going to be forever so Ma took took action by controlling the things that Jack knew about and at first Ma convinced Jack that the only world that existed was room, then later on as she got hope of escaping she began to explain to Jack that there was a world outside of room, then when they escaped she had to help Jack learn everything about the world because he was now living in it. Ma had to convince Jack when he was a child living in isolation that the only things that existed …show more content…
At first when they got out they were put into a psychiatric hospital so they could have the care that they need to get their health back up and to strengthen their immune system since it had been weakened from being isolated in room. One of the first things that they did when they got to the hospital was they had to be examined for their health to see if there was anything that need to be done on them such as operations or just in general hygiene things. While everything was happening with the check ups and such things Jack would not leave Ma’s side because he has never been away from her and this was one of the things that they needed to work on in the hospital to get Jack ready for the real world. Then after a couple days of Jack and Ma working on themselves and working with Jack to get him used to new things like climbing up and down stairs they were finally going to meet some of Ma’s family. the first person that they meet was Jack’s grandma when she walked in Jack got scared and he hid behind the chair at first was scared to go up to her and when she walked over to give Jack a hug he got scared and backed away and Ma had to explain to her that Jack was not used to anyone but her. Once Jack’s grandma left Ma had to explain to Jack that she was good and he didn’t have to be scared of her and that they would on Jack getting used to meeting other people. Another thing that jack had to work on was getting to know how to judge how far away things were because in room things were so confined that he knew the exact distance to everything, and now that things are at different distances he kept bumping into things and thinking things were closing then they actually were and in