Room Part 4: After Quotes
Room Part 4: After Quotes
How we cite the quotes:
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Quote 7
There's anyones too near eating strange squares with little squares all over and curly bacons. (4.310)
Everything is so new to Jack, it's sometimes difficult to realize at first what he's describing. Here, he's in the cafeteria breakfast room, and everyone is eating waffles. Jack really does have to learn everything out in the world (but don't we all?). Good thing no one tells him to leggo my Eggo, or his head might explode.
Quote 8
My favorite bit of Outside is the window. It's different every time. A bird goes right by zoom, I don't know what it was. The shadows are all long again now, mine waves right across our room on the green wall. (4.512)
Looking out the window is the only way Jack is comfortable exploring his surroundings at first. As a kid who enjoys TV so much, this isn't unusual. It's a way for Jack to explore Outside without actually having to interact with it.
Quote 9
I find a triangularish thing the big of my nose that Noreen says is a rock. "It's millions of years old," says Ma. How does she know? I look at the under, there's no label. (4.874-4.876)
Jack explores the world the only way he knows how, through the lens of Room, where he has grown up. Everything in Room was bought for him, so it would have a label or some sort of identifier. He doesn't yet understand that there are things in nature that have been around a lot longer than labels have.