![]() ![]() His world had seemed absolute and unchanging Jack and Ma are the only residents of Room, and the only real people in Jack’s world. ![]() Jack absorbs the things Ma begins to tell him slowly. And why does the air smell different when the big metal Door beeps and Old Nick comes into the room at night? Ma says it smells like cut grass in the summer, and she says one day they will open Door themselves to see the real grass, though Jack finds the idea of leaving Room even harder to believe than the existence of trees and grass. What is that black thing that fell on Skylight? Ma says it’s a leaf, fallen from a tree Jack had thought trees were TV, not real. But as he grows older, his curiosity keeps pace. The small room has never felt confining to Jack like it does to Ma he’s always had new things to learn, and he doesn’t get tired of reading the same books every day like Ma does. When he was four, he could race the shape of a C from one wall, around the bed, to the other wall, in 18 steps, but now that he’s five he can do it in only 16 steps! Jack’s world is 11 feet square, and growing smaller every day. ![]()
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