Room Conflicts

Throughout the novel Room the protagonist Jack experiences difficulties understanding the world around him. This creates many conflicts between him and his mother. Many of these conflicts begin with a disagreement in opinion between the two characters. Now that Jack is becoming older he is beginning to want more than just what lies within the Room in which he lives in. In the beginning of the novel Jack asks his mother for candles for his fifth birthday cake, but his mother tells him he cannot have candles and believes he never will. This creates then start of a conflict in which is that Jack cannot get what he wants all of the time. When he finds out he will not have candles he begins to scream and cry. This is seen again later on in the novel when Jack
Jack notices that his mother truly believes there is a whole world with streets, and cars, and buildings like on the television and because she is unable to escape the room she is sad. In order to keep her happy Jack goes along with her plans to escape because he does not want to see his mother cry, or what her to be angry with him. Every time he goes along with his mother’s escape plans and practice for the day they escape, Jack get nervous about messing up and is afraid to go through with the plan. When he becomes afraid he thinks of how happy and proud his mother would be of him, and this gives him the motivation to keep going. For example, when he is halfway through the escape plan and is outside in Old Nick’s truck Jack begins to forget parts of the plan and becomes afraid because he does not know what to do. He states that he then hears his mother’s voice in his head encouraging him and this motivates him to try harder. Despite having some conflict with his mother, in the end Jack loves her, and she becomes his motivation until the end of the