3 years ago, my friend suggested that I watch a t.v-show called Prison Break. It didn't take me too long to get hooked on to it. It's essentially about a guy named Michael Scoffield whose brother is unjustly put in jail for life. Michael, a structural engineer, who through having worked with the firm that designs prisons, happens to have the blueprints for the prison that his brother was being kept in, decided to have the whole blueprint tattooed on his body. He commits a bank robbery and gets sentenced to the same prison as his brother. Now he plans to break his brother out of prison. This takes weeks and weeks of planning and many close calls that could have gotten them killed. It was a great show and it kept me on my toes throughout.
While I was reading the second section of Room, I was constantly thinking of Michael and what he went through to make his escape plan happen. Similarly to Michael, Ma and Jack were trying to figure out a good enough plan that would get them out of Room. Very much like Michael, Ma's first plan of asking Old Nick to take Jack to the hospital did not work. Michael constantly had to tweak his plan because of little things that just did not work out.
Ma got the idea that going extreme might just work, so she trained with Jack to have him pretend like he is dead. Then she will get Old Nick to dispose off of his body outside of Room.
"You have to drive him a long way away, all right?" (136)
Her plan ends up working and Jack escapes. He quickly finds a man named Ajeet and manages to get help from him. Much like Jack, Michael also figures a way out of the prison and finds people outside to help him and provide safety. Sounds like a happy ending for both parties doesn't it?
well... sure it's much better than before, but there are still challenges for Ma and Jack, and Michael.
After being outside Room for a while, Jack and Ma visit the doctors to make sure that there are no health issues. Ma is very over protective of Jack and does not appreciate doctors trying to help, which I found very interesting.
"All these years, I kept him safe" (167)
Old tribal cultures avoid western treatment because they believe in their own forms of natural treatments. Ma's decision was provocative of this idea for me because she believes that all Jack needs is sleep rather than treatment.
Ma got the idea that going extreme might just work, so she trained with Jack to have him pretend like he is dead. Then she will get Old Nick to dispose off of his body outside of Room.
"You have to drive him a long way away, all right?" (136)
Her plan ends up working and Jack escapes. He quickly finds a man named Ajeet and manages to get help from him. Much like Jack, Michael also figures a way out of the prison and finds people outside to help him and provide safety. Sounds like a happy ending for both parties doesn't it?
well... sure it's much better than before, but there are still challenges for Ma and Jack, and Michael.
After being outside Room for a while, Jack and Ma visit the doctors to make sure that there are no health issues. Ma is very over protective of Jack and does not appreciate doctors trying to help, which I found very interesting.
"All these years, I kept him safe" (167)
Old tribal cultures avoid western treatment because they believe in their own forms of natural treatments. Ma's decision was provocative of this idea for me because she believes that all Jack needs is sleep rather than treatment.
Ma also finds out that her parents have separated and that her mother has remarried. This shocks her and also confuses Jack further being in the outside world.
In the movie 12 Years a Slave, a man named Solomon Northup, in the years of slavery, is captured and held as a slave by a man who disregarded the fact that Solomon is by law a free man. After being a slave for over a decade, Solomon returns to his family and finds out that his daughter, who was very young when he was captured, is now married and has a baby. Solomon's and Ma's reactions to the family change were certainly not the same since Solomon was actually happy to see his family evolve, while Ma was not happy with the divorce. With that being said, Solomon and Ma shared a similar experience which was interesting.
But what really happened to Nick? What happened to Room?
Until the next post...