![]() ![]() Seeing Room one last time, Jack realizes that it'll always be a part of him, but it's okay to leave it behind. He's seen the whole big world (or at least a globe) at this point, and he realizes just how small Room was. (Still need to work on syntax, buddy.) He may have grown a little physically, but more importantly, he's grown a lot emotionally. Just as the removing the candies signaled the end of Jack's birthday, closing the door on Room signals the end of a huge chapter of Jack's and Ma's lives. They wouldn't be together if it hadn't happened. Sure, it was traumatic, but it was something that happened that defined Ma and Jack's life, and that brought Jack into existence. ![]() He's nice enough to remind us that this is "a hole where something happened" (5.1131), and then he and Ma go out the door. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare rock. ![]() Taking two monksyoung Trian and old Cormache rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. ![]() She sure does not want to go back to that place, but she eventually concedes and contacts Officer Oh to take them back to Room one last time.Įarlier in the novel, on Jack's birthday, Jack takes the M&Ms off his cake and leaves little craters in the icing, which Ma defines as "holes where something happened" (1.260). In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. At the end of Room, Jack convinces Ma to return to Room. ![]()
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