It seems to me that Jack mentions it pretty rarely, actually: he gives far more analysis of what they have for lunch and dinner. Here is her response:Įmma: Finally, your breastfeeding question. UPDATE: I just finished my author chat with Emma Donoghue and I asked her about the breastfeeding and what was behind this part of the book. I would love to discuss it more deeply with you and I will respond to your comments. Please share your thoughts here about anything in this book. I liked how the author put in things that I would not have thought of, like the sensitivity to sun after not having been in it and even how careful they had to be of germs once out in the world. I really thought the book was well put together and well thought out. I am sure the milk that Jack needed was probably not readily available in their circumstances and they never knew if they could count on Old Nick or not, so I understand why it is in the book… I guess I am just wondering if anyone else squirmed through this too? 😀 I think the fact that Jack was 5 and asking for “some” or walking up to his mom and lifting her shirt up to breast feed just still even as I type bugs me. And maybe that is what author Emma Donoghue was going for…. I hate to say that and I feel just prudish doing so … but it really disturbed me. The only thing that really bothered me through out the entire read was the breast-feeding. My review is safe to read but this page will be full of details in the book that are very spoilerish. If you have not read this book – STOP NOW. the spoiler pages are used to openly and freely discuss a book without fear of giving away anything to an unsuspecting person who has not read the book. Told in Jack's voice, Room is the story of a mother's love for her son, and of a young boy's innocence.Ok – you know the drill…. And only Old Nick has the code to Door, which is otherwise locked. Old Nick, on the other hand, is all too real, but only visits at night – like a bat – when Jack is meant to be asleep and hidden safely in Wardrobe. There's TV too, of course – and the cartoon characters he thinks of as his friends – but Jack knows that nothing else he sees on the screen is real. He shares this world with his mother, with Plant, and tiny Mouse (though Ma isn't a fan and throws a book at Mouse when she sees him). But although Jack is a normal child in many ways – loving, funny, bright, full of energy and questions – his upbringing is far from ordinary: Jack's entire life has been spent in a single room that measures just 12 feet by 12 feet as far as he's concerned, Room is the entire world. He's looking forward to telling his friends it's his birthday, too. Jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world.
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