What Is A Pivotal Moment In Room By Emma Donoghue

In the book Room written by Emma Donoghue, five-year-old Jack learns that there is more to the world than just the room he has lived in for the past five years of his life. Transitioning from a small room to the entire world can impact one’s mind, and this is identified by Jack’s psychological development. A pivotal moment that helps identify Jack’s psychological maturity is during the escape plan. To be freed from Room, Jack had to be taken out of the room first and get help. The moment Jack jumps from the old brown pickup truck, was the moment he matured psychologically. As soon as he jumped he thought, “The ground breaks my feet smash my knee hits me in the face but I’m running running running, where’s Somebody, Ma said to scream to a somebody or a car or a lighted house.” In this moment, it’s almost as if Jack put aside everything he has ever believed in, and he kept working towards the goal at hand. Even though he never understood the real world, and didn’t understand the concept of everything existing, he knew he could not give up. Watching Jack go through so many hardships to free them from the room proves that the overall message of the story is that the only hope for freedom is progress. No matter how many times Jack wanted to give up, Ma …show more content…
The development of Jack, psychologically, helps define the overall theme of the book. At the very end of the book, Jack finally says goodbye to the room, which symbolizes him saying goodbye to his childhood. Even though he is still only five years old, he matured immensely over the course of the book, leaving the childish aspect of his life behind. Before leaving the room, Jack said, “I look back one more time. It’s like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.” Just like that, it was the end of Room, and all he has ever known as a